Posts Tagged: colleges Israel Boycott
Despite Coronavirus, BDS Debate Continues on Campus and Elsewhere
The academic year ended with colleges and universities locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The impact on BDS activities, especially Israeli Apartheid Week and...
At Oberlin and Elsewhere, Anti-Zionism Is Not a Valid Viewpoint
Discrimination and harassment of Jews by pro-BDS groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace is rampant on many campuses. While...
Intellectual Freedom Redefined
Susan Shapiro described the environment at NYU in The Wall Street Journal: Jewish students were assaulted at an Israeli Independence Day celebration last year in Washington Square...
SPME BDS Monitor: Campus Protests, Labour Party and More
March saw a variety of BDS efforts on campus, some timed to coincide with "Apartheid Week" and the Easter-Passover season. At the same time, BDS-inspired...
Congress Works to Curb Anti-American and Anti-Israel Bias on US Campuses
At the end of 2017, a monumental piece of legislation to curb anti-American and anti-Israel biases on college campuses was passed by the House Committee...
Amid BDS Activism, Divestment Falters on College Campuses
It has become a summer ritual to predict that college campuses will erupt in anti-Israel activity, and, after 2014-15’s record number of antisemitic divestment resolutions,...
SPME BDS Monitor: The Debate Comes to the Presidential Conventions
In July, BDS took center stage at the US presidential conventions. But important differences between the Republican and Democratic platforms regarding Israel reflect changes in...
SPME BDS Monitor: Antisemitism Rises as States Fight Boycott Efforts
February saw dramatic setbacks for the BDS movement as legislators and politicians imposed restrictions and voiced unprecedented opposition. At the same time, BDS in universities...
Israel-Advocates Celebrate Passage of BDS Bill at Chicago School. Huh?
JNS.org - Both the pro-Israel and anti-Israel camps are celebrating the passage of a college campus divestment measure. That doesn’t happen too often, if ever. But...
The Insidious Marketing of the BDS Campaign
The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement promotes itself as a non-violent "civil society" human rights organization trying to bring peace to a victimized people...
