Posts Tagged: colleges anti-Israel
The Middle East Studies Association Is Fundamentally Anti-Zionist
The room at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC, was overflowing for a special session billed as “Thinking Palestine Intersectionally.” The audience filled the seats,...
Middle East Studies Association Panel Reserves Outrage Only for Israel
Israel Studies are rarely centerstage at annual conferences of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA); but when they are, one can be certain that they’ll be the...
Who Is Educating US Students About Israel?
JNS.org - Congress will soon re-authorize Title VI of the Higher Educational Opportunities Act, a bill that was first introduced as the National Defense Education Act...
Normalizing Antisemitism on Campus
At McGill University recently, three board members of the University’s Students’ Society were removed from their appointments after a vote at the Fall General Assembly...
Taxpayer-Funded Bias on Middle East Invades K-12 Classrooms
While much attention is devoted to the politicization of Middle East studies on college campuses, biased perspectives on Western values, Israel, Islam and terrorism are...
At Northeastern University, Educated Stupidity on Israel
I recently made the mistake of attending an anti-Israel rally outside the Hillel chapter at Northeastern University on November 2, 2017. The declared purpose of the rally...
Muslim Student Tries to Silence Pro-Israel Arab Voices
JNS.org - In the latest college controversy involving Israel’s minority populations, police at the University of Minnesota arrested an unidentified woman on October 24 for disrupting a...
The Zionists Are Coming: Panic at San Francisco State University
In the fevered imagination of the academic left, these are dark days at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Speakers at a two-day conference -- "Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution...
New Wave of Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Activity Emerges on Campuses
JNS.org - Jewish college students returning after their summer break are encountering a wave of swastika daubings and anti-Israel activity on campuses across the country; and...
CAMERA Conference Helps Students Combat BDS at Home and Abroad
JNS.org - Some 80 students from 13 different countries participated in a recent high-level training conference to prepare them to respond to campus antisemitism and anti-Israel activism. The...
Is The Forward’s College Guide Misguided?
Any effort to rank universities is fraught with land mines. Just ask US News and World Report, whose college rankings provoke arguments each year among faculty,...
Have Things Really Changed for Jewish Students on Campus?
Journalists and pro-Israel activists often share a tendency to see current events as the beginning of history. I’ve been reminded of this lately by apocalyptic...
The College Witch Hunt Began With Jews
As bad as it looks, the atmosphere on college campuses in the United States is ripe for change. The willingness of parents to fork over...
A New Documentary Shows the Extent and Nature of Anti-Zionist ‘Hate Spaces’ on Campus
JNS.org - Americans for Peace and Tolerance’s (APT) new documentary, Hate Spaces: The Politics of Intolerance on Campus, explores the roots of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
