A great piece by Tammi Rossman-Benjamin in Newsweek on anti-Semitism at U.S. college campuses: For example, after anti-Zionist student protesters at San Francisco State University disrupted a Hillel-sponsored talk from the mayor of Jerusalem by…
Topic: Israel
Cal-Berkeley Forced to Cancel ‘Decolonizing Palestine’ Course
It does sound like a political indoctrination course, so it’s a good call by Berkeley: The University of California, Berkeley was forced to cancel a course on decolonizing Palestine after conceding that it violated policies…
Federally Funded Anti-Semitism
We’ve reported on the movement on college campuses to apply boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against entities that invest in the state of Israel. As well, we’ve shown the anti-Semitism in this campaign. Now, a…
BDS Threatens Palestinians
Way back in the Big Band Era, even before my time, the Mills Brothers did a song called “You always hurt the one you love.” The political Left in America should resurrect it and make…
Star Parker: The BDS Movement is Very Anti-Israel
Star Parker wrote a great column on the anti-Israel BDS movement that is making waves on college campuses: According to AMCHA, a nonprofit devoted to combating anti-Semitism, of 19 directors of these programs, eight (42…
Anti-Israel BDS Movement at UCLA & Berkeley
According to the AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization that investigates and reports on anti-Semitism at American universities, there was “an alarming spike” in acts of anti-Semitism on America’s college campuses during the first half of…
Syracuse University Cancels Film on Israeli Settlers over Worries of BDS Movement Backlash
However, there is a controversy whether the cancelling of the film on Israeli settlers was due to the potential backlash of BDS movement supporters, or whether it was the professor’s own misgivings, etc.
The ‘Altruistic Evil’ of Social Justice for the Palestinians
Editor’s Note: The original article appeared in the Times of Israel. As yet another indication that the university campus has become “an island of repression in a sea of freedom,” last March a pro-Israel group,…
#ATLisReady Refers to Israel As “Apartheid Israel”
#ATLisReady, “a collective of student activists, community organizers, and leaders working to amplify Black and other marginalized voices in Atlanta,” published several demands including a call for the city’s police department to exit the Georgia…
Black Lives Matter & BDS: Separated at birth?
The Movement for Black Lives (a conglomeration comprised of Black Lives Matter and many other groups) recently garnered media attention for releasing an incendiary manifesto. This manifesto includes references to Israel as an “apartheid state”…