Posts Tagged: boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement
Brown University Investigating Anti-Israel Students, Groups Over Conduct Protesting Vote Against BDS
Brown University has launched investigations of anti-Israel groups and individual students following their riotous conduct during a protest of the Brown Corporation that was held...
UMass Amherst Student Government Passes BDS ‘Reaffirmation’
The Student Government Association (SGA) of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass) proposed and passed on Friday a resolution which "reaffirmed" its previous endorsement of the...
Pomona College Suspends 12 Pro-Hamas Students for Oct. 7 Vandalism, Building Takeover
Pomona College in Claremont, California has levied severe disciplinary sanctions, ranging from expulsion to banishment, against 12 students who participated in illegally occupying and vandalizing...
Brown University Concealing Divestment Recommendation From Public Until Trustee Vote
Brown University is concealing from the public the recommendation of an advisory committee which recently submitted its opinion on divestment from Israel to president Christina...
University of Connecticut Rejects Dialogue With Pro-Hamas Group After Antisemitic Incident Targeting President
University of Connecticut administrators have canceled a planned meeting with UConnDivest (UDC), a spinoff of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), following the group's creating...
BDS Could Cost Universities Billions of Dollars, New ADL Report Says
Colleges and universities will lose tens of billions of dollars collectively from their endowments if they capitulate to demands to divest from Israel and companies...
US Senator Urges Brown University to Reject BDS Proposal
Brown University has been again counseled by a prominent voice against adopting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel ahead of the Brown...
US Colleges Reject Divestment Proposals Targeting Israel
American universities are largely rejecting demands to divest from Israel and entities at all linked to the Jewish state, delivering further blows to the pro-Hamas...
‘Antisemitic and Unlawful’: 24 Attorneys General Warn Brown University Not to Adopt BDS Movement
Two dozen attorneys general across the US wrote to Brown University on Monday warning that it could face "immediate and profound legal consequences" if it...
US Lawmakers Prod Treasury Department for Reports on Anti-Zionist Groups Behind Campus Protests
Two US congressional committees investigating extremist anti-Zionist groups organizing rampant anti-Israel protests on college campuses implored Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday to assist their...
John Hopkins University Adopts ‘Institutional Neutrality’ Policy After Anti-Israel Protests
John Hopkins University (JHU) announced that it has adopted a policy of "institutional neutrality" and will not weigh in on topics outside its direct "interest...
UCLA Allowing Pro-Hamas Protesters to Exclude Jews from ‘Gaza Encampment’ Area ‘Abhorrent,’ Federal Judge Says
A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) must stop allowing pro-Hamas demonstrators to secure an encampment from...
3,000 Academics Denounce Boycotts of Israel in New Letter
Nearly 3,000 scholars have signed an open letter which condemns academic boycotts of Israel and calls on university officials to protect the academy from the...
Jewish Civil Rights Group Challenges UC Berkeley Motion to Dismiss Antisemitism Lawsuit
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on Wednesday filed a legal brief challenging the University of California, Berkeley's (UC Berkeley) motion...
