Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. As the 2016…
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University of California Chancellors Unequivocally Condemn BDS
The movement to Boycott, Divest From and Sanction Israel (BDS) just suffered a severe setback as all ten chancellors of the University of California unequivocally condemned in a statement that did not leave much to the imagination.
Gender Studies Departments Twelve Times More Likely to Invite Pro-Israel Boycott BDS Speakers
AMCHA Initiative announced that in their recent study, they discovered that gender studies departments across the U.S. were more likely to invite anti-Israel, pro-Israel boycott-aligned speakers to their departments.
Anti-Semitism on Campus 2017
A new report said that at the 113 U.S. schools that Jews were most likely to attend, anti-Semitic incidents went up 40% from 2015 to 2016.
The New Jacobins: Where Israel Is Involved, the Suppression of Campus Speech Is an Old Story
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published at the Times of Israel. When Chester Evans Finn, Jr., a former United States Assistant Secretary of Education, observed in 1989 that university campuses had become “islands of…
Campus Anti-Semitism: The Year in Review
Editor’s Note: The following post was published by the Louis B. Brandeis Center in their email newsletter. This has been an extraordinarily eventful year in the campaign against campus antisemitism, especially from our perspective at…
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…
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…
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”…
Anti-Semitism on Campus 2016
The anti-Semitism evident in e-mails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which WikLeaks obtained, might not surprise so many if they knew how prevalent that attitude is on American college campuses. The AMCHA Initiative housed…
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America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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