Posts Tagged: Alexander Joffe
The Academy Promotes Hamas
JNS.org - Do academic organizations represent intellectual values—above all objectivity? Or do they represent the current state of their communities and those communities’ prejudices and...
Annexation Proposal Leads to More Support for BDS
In contrast to June, when BDS was focused on alleged Israeli culpability for police violence in the US, in July anger was generated over reports...
BDS Continues on Campus, While Some Democrats Take on Omar and Tlaib
BDS activity on college campuses increased sharply in March. The most consequential move was the decision by a mixed faculty-student body at Pitzer College to...
BDS Advocates Try to Split the Jewish Community From Israel
In July, the BDS movement accelerated its efforts to divide the American Jewish community from Israel and intensify internal divisions in the latter. Two incidents in...
SPME BDS Monitor: Boycott Marches on, but Double Standards Become Painfully Clear
The BDS movement has been stymied in the political arena by legislative initiatives. But through deliberate obfuscation, new efforts to expand anti-boycott legislation have now...
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East BDS Monitor: Boycotts Have Become Common, Normalized
Cultural boycotts of Israel and Israel supporters were suddenly prominent at the end of the summer, as artists, films and exhibitions became targets. Most notable...
SPME BDS Monitor: Active University BDS Scene Prompts Questions About Anti-Semitism
Introduction BDS activity in March was divided between academia and the political sphere. In the former, in addition to a variety of student government resolutions, backlash...
SPME BDS Monitor: A Busy Spring for Anti-Israel Activities on Campus
Introduction With the spring semester in full swing BDS activities intensified greatly, with the focus split between student governments and academic associations. And with the Israeli...
On College Campuses, Semester Ends With Big BDS Push
The end of the fall semester saw continued BDS successes in academic organizations but failures in other areas. In political terms, recognition of Palestine continued...
America’s Palestine Refugee Policy is Ludicrous
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. By any measurement, Western policy towards United Nations Relief...
How the Gaza War Has Affected the BDS Movement
Introduction In August the Gaza war created a massive upswing in worldwide BDS activity. Economic boycotts of Israel were the most obvious, but impacts were...
Truly Understanding UNRWA
The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948. UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the...
Explaining Why So Many Palestinians Are Still Refugees (REVIEW)
With the recent breakdown of another iteration of attempts to "make forward progress" in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, many have remarked on the basic intractability of the...
The Failure of Religious Diplomacy at the Birth of Israel
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief (New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), by Asaf...
