Tag: academic boycott of Israel

The study provides evidence that MESA’s likely adoption of academic BDS would be disastrous.

Virginia Tech’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate members implement the academic boycott on campus and in their own classrooms.

“[It] is deeply troubling—not only for its shocking omission of any mention of Jewish Americans or anti-Semitism or its blatant anti-Israel bias and praise of BDS, but for its clear attempt to politically indoctrinate students to adopt the view that Israel and its Jewish supporters are part of ‘interlocking systems of oppression and privilege’ that must be fought with ‘direct action’ and ‘resistance,’ ” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, head of the AMCHA Initiative.

“The facts in this case, many of which were disregarded by the previous administration, are troubling.”

"If the academic code of ethics was created for any purpose at all, it was to combat academic boycotts of Israel."

According to the Boycott Law, a person or group harmed by a boycott may seek compensation from the individual or group that had harmed him.

First empirical evidence to explain how faculty promotion of an academic boycott of Israel is unlike other advocacy on campus, poses threat to Jewish students.

AMCHA Initiative’s 2016 report indicates two main sources are responsible for anti-Semitism on campus.

American campuses are the petri dishes in which the latest version of the oldest hatred grows.

The course learning objectives made it clear that a key goal of the class was to encourage students to accept unquestioningly the false and defamatory idea that Israel is an illegitimate settler colonial state.

The business community rejects the fabricated accusations against Israel perpetrated by the BDS activists.

All the Israeli signatories on the first petition to foil an effort to halt the boycott are activists in radical Left organizations, which are backed by copious amounts of foreign political funding.

'A handful of zealots hijacked the ASA' to promote their own anti-Israel position' claims the lawsuit against the ASA Israel boycott .

The Philadelphia City Council has joined the ranks of outspoken anti- anti-Israel advocates

A congressional letter slams the American Studies Association's academic boycott of Israel as antithetical to academic freedom and as "thinly veiled bigotry." UPDATED!

At least 55 American universities and colleges have rejected the American Studies Association membership vote in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. The number...

Two more American institutions of higher learning officially withdrew their memberships from the American Studies Association after its membership voted in favor of an...

A Native American studies association is the third U.S. academic body this year to recommend its members boycott Israeli universities. The Native American and Indigenous...

The Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 made BDS actions unlawful.