Posts Tagged: colleges Israel
Cary Nelson Makes the Progressive Case Against BDS
For academics who support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Cary Nelson’s recently published book -- Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Faculty Campaign...
Intellectual Freedom Redefined
Susan Shapiro described the environment at NYU in The Wall Street Journal: Jewish students were assaulted at an Israeli Independence Day celebration last year in Washington Square...
How Liberal Jews Are Being Pushed Out on Campus
I stand with an anonymous fellow student who exposed the truth about Occidental’s Israeli Apartheid Week. Although students at my school have dismissed his perspective,...
Israel-Haters at Brandeis
JNS.org - It’s no surprise to read about college students calling for the destruction of Israel. But there’s something particularly painful when they are students at...
NYU Department Boycotts NYU Tel Aviv for Hypocritical Reasons
This is from NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis: Faculty and student members of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis seek at all times to...
Palestinian Terror Group’s Propaganda Appears at Cornell and Binghamton
A coalition of student groups at Cornell University has renewed the call for a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign at the university. Led by...
Free Speech vs. Inclusive Speech: What’s Fair Game on Campus?
While the American Civil Liberties Union’s guide to speech on campus asserts that any “restrictions on speech by public colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in...
The BDS Fight Boils Over on Campus and Elsewhere
In December, the BDS movement continued to be a prominent political and campus issue, fully integrated into larger questions of antisemitism, free speech, and the...
Pro-Israel Faculty Members Must Speak Out on Campus
With the normalizing of antisemitism comes the normalizing of BDS. Professors and academics who support and advocate for BDS feel empowered and emboldened by the...
An Open Letter to the President of Tufts University
Dear Dr. Anthony Monaco President, Tufts University As a former Tufts medical student, full-time academic, retired Professor of Radiology (Tufts, BU) -- and a student of Middle...
BDS in Politics and on the College Campus
BDS news in November was dominated by the midterm elections. Several BDS supporters were elected to the House of Representatives, notably Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,...
We Must Push Back Against BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is a public relations effort to demonize the Jewish state. In recent months, BDS tactics have intensified...
SJP’s Campaign of Lies Will Only Damage Swarthmore
Earlier this year, amid a flurry of slanderous statements, Swarthmore’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter announced their Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign...
UCLA Shamefully Condones Students for Justice in Palestine
Imagine if the KKK asked to hold a conference at UCLA. Does anyone seriously believe that the administration would allow it to take place, or...
