Posts Tagged: BDS
UMass Chancellor Applauded Over BDS Criticism, University President Urged to Act
The president of the University of Massachusetts system is being urged to condemn academic boycotts of Israeli universities, after the chancellor of the Amherst campus...
Columbia University to Hold Israel Divestment Referendum; Supporters Chant ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free’
Student leaders at Columbia University in New York voted on Sunday to hold a referendum on divestment from Israel, following a multi-year push by anti-Zionist...
Dozens of University of Toronto Faculty Call Out ‘Antisemitic BDS Movement,’ Urge Adoption of IHRA Definition
Dozens of University of Toronto faculty members urged President Meric Gertler on Tuesday to root out antisemitism on their campus, which they warned had worsened...
Blind Hate Against Israel Displayed at Palestinian Times Square Rally
As the Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilian communities last week, a coalition of supposed peace groups organized a Times Square...
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...
Antisemitism Is Real — We Must Fight It Loud and Proud
Jews are under assault in the United States. White nationalists are marking the landscape with a trail of blood and swastikas, desecrating Jewish tombstones, and...
An Open Letter to UMass Professors Who Support BDS
Below is an open letter to the faculty members who signed a pro-BDS letter to University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy: We do not know...
Cultural BDS: Artists Are Under Attack
Proponents of the cultural Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel claim that their cause is human rights and their methods are non-violent. Yet...
How BDS Mainstreamed Antisemitism on the American Campus — and Beyond
Antisemitism did not die with the fall of Nazi Germany and its mass murder of six million Jews. The ancient hatred of the Jewish people...
What J Street Has Become
JNS.org - When it was founded some 10 years ago, J Street claimed to be a “pro-Israel and pro-peace” organization. That was taken to mean...
BDS Returns to Campus
In October, the focus of BDS shifted back to campus. In a demonstration of how BDS has permeated all aspects of campus life, BDS activists...
How to Fight the Cultural BDS Movement
One of the good things about the bad times of today is that people are not staying silent about rising antisemitism. Polls and reports of...
BDS, Antisemitism, and Class
Class has emerged as one of the most important features of global politics. Predictably, antisemitism and the boycott-Israel movement are enmeshed in class-based patterns of...
New York Times Iran Story Relies on Analyst Tied to BDS-Backing Rockefeller Fund
A recent New York Times article about Iran quotes a bunch of government officials -- and also someone who works at a small, little-known nonprofit...
