Posts Tagged: Boycott Israel
Israeli Voices Get Silenced on Campus; Jew Haters Are Given ‘Academic Freedom’
As 2023 begins, several trends related to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement have become clear. On one hand, "human rights" industry leaders and...
Anti-Israel Hate Spreads Beyond the College Campus in November
November’s BDS news was shaped by the results of the midterm elections that saw the Republicans take control of the House of Representatives while Democrats...
Off Key: How Some Popular Music Is Spreading Antisemitism
As the number of hate crimes targeting Jewish people around the globe soars, an area that is receiving less attention is the existence of anti-Jewish...
BDS ‘Mapping Project’: US National Media Ignores Sinister List That Encourages Targeting of Jewish Institutions
A multicolored muddle of dots and lines covering an illustration of the United States’ east coast is the latest example of the all-out war being...
Anti-Normalization Is a Threat to Peace and Understanding
A few years ago, I was in the West Bank, in the South Hebron Hills. It’s a rugged, barren, and rocky land, home to some...
More Antisemitism at Harvard
Last month, in a report sent to the United Nations, a clinic at Harvard Law School deemed Israel to be an “an apartheid regime.” Now,...
Efforts to Boycott Israel Grow on Campus
The spring semester approaches its end with a variety of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) activities on campus. In the US, several student governments have...
Don’t Turn Away Supporters of Israel
The State of Israel was founded in 1948 and admitted to the United Nations as a member state in 1949. Nevertheless, as Susie Linfield writes...
LA Times, Washington Post Cite American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee as ‘Civil Rights Group’ While Omitting Its Support for Racist BDS Movement Against Israel
A recent piece in The Los Angeles Times refers to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) as a “civil rights organization formed in 1980 to combat...
Israel on Campus, Post-Truth
In the post-truth world, Hamas apparently no longer exists. Thousands of rockets and incendiary balloons no longer fall on Israeli towns and cities, killing people...
‘Bring Down the State of Israel’: Media Outlets Obscure BDS Campaign’s True Goal in Sally Rooney Boycott Coverage
The debate over Irish author Sally Rooney’s severing of ties with an Israeli publisher in line with her support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions...
Beautiful World, Where Are You? Best-Selling Author’s Israel Boycott Is Hypocritical and Antisemitic
Sally Rooney is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the literary scene right now. The 30-year-old Irish author’s 2017 debut novel, "Conversations With Friends," was...
The Intercept Offers Impassioned Defense of Instructor Who Called Israel Supporters ‘Zionist Dirtbags’
Kylie Broderick is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina (UNC)’s History Department, and teaches a class to undergraduates called “The Conflict Over...
BDS Comes to Campus Amid Afghanistan Withdrawal and 9/11 Anniversary
The fall academic semester began with the American evacuation of Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban. No condemnations of the Taliban, including for murder...
