Posts Tagged: BDS
Adelphi University Looks to Bring Hillel on Campus, Raising Concerns From Israel Boycotters
Adelphi University in New York is looking to open a formal chapter of the Jewish group Hillel in order to support and attract Jewish students,...
South Africa BDS Protesters Wave Hezbollah Flags, Urge Gov’t to Honor PFLP Hijacker
Members of the South African boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel urged local officials in Johannesburg last Friday to rename a street after...
Arkansas Attorney General Defends Anti-BDS Law in Ongoing Appeal
An Arkansas law prohibiting the state from contracting with entities that boycott Israel does not violate the First Amendment, but rather protects taxpayers from funding...
New Book Unmasks Ramallah- and Gaza-Based Academic and Cultural Boycotts of Israel
JNS.org - In the wake of Iceland’s pro-Palestinian gesture at Eurovision and related discussion promoted by the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI),...
BDS Continues to Normalize Antisemitism on Campus and Elsewhere
The most prominent aspect of BDS in May was the expanded policing on college campuses of pro-Israel support. At DePaul University, the faculty council officially...
At Haifa University, Pitzer College President Reaffirms Opposition to Israel Boycott, Support of Academic Freedom
The president of Pitzer College in California on Tuesday reaffirmed his opposition to academic boycotts while visiting the University of Haifa -- the same institution that...
Northwestern Affirms ‘Unequivocal’ Rejection of BDS After Incoming Professor Endorses Anti-Zionist Campaign
The president and provost of Northwestern University in Illinois affirmed that the school "unequivocally rejects" the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,...
Research Uncovers Additional Antisemitism at Al Jazeera, After Holocaust Revisionist Video Retracted
JNS.org - Amid the fallout over a video that denied the Holocaust, the antisemitism watchdog group Canary Mission has revealed that several members of Al...
UCLA Student Gov’t Passes Resolution Defending SJP From Antisemitism Claims
Student government representatives at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed a resolution on Tuesday rejecting "misinformation" against the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)...
NYU Convocation Speaker Calls for BDS Against ‘Apartheid Government’ in Israel
A speaker at New York University's doctoral convocation ceremony on Monday applauded his colleagues at the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA), which recently pledged non-cooperation with NYU's Tel...
140 NYU School of Medicine Faculty, Alumni Urge President to Address ‘Climate of Antisemitism’
Alumni and faculty members of New York University's School of Medicine called on President Andrew Hamilton to combat a "climate of anti-Semitism at NYU that creates...
Germans Get It, Why Don’t Pro-BDS Democrats?
On May 17, the German Parliament passed a resolution that designates the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as antisemitic, and said that...
Will Anti-BDS Legislation Work in Real Life?
JNS.org - The legislation that passed in the German Bundestag last week defining the BDS movement as antisemitic has great symbolic importance. For the first time,...
University of Cape Town Senate Defers Vote on Israel Boycott, Calls for ‘Consultative Process’
The Senate of the University of Cape Town in South Africa has deferred a vote on a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, agreeing to "a more consultative...
