It bears repeating. Jasbir Puar, a professor of gender studies at Rutgers University, visited Vassar College to explain the Jewish state’s policy of deliberate maiming, especially of children, not with a view toward “winning or...
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Brooklyn College Faculty Pushed Into Israel Wars
In recent years, the BDS and anti-Israel battles on Brooklyn College’s leafy campus have been borne largely by Jewish students. They have pressed administrators to censure professors they believed were unfair to Israel. They have...
Majoring in Anti-Semitism at Vassar
Anti-Israel sentiment mixed with age-old anti-Semitism has reached a fever pitch at Vassar College. It is time that faculty and administrators take a stand against this toxic brew on behalf of academic values.
A New Awareness and Warning
Pro-Palestinian protesters this past Friday, January 22, 2016, forced the cancellation of a reception and in Chicago at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s annual conference. The gathering was to have featured two LGBT rights advocates...
Attacking BDS From The Left
As the BDS movement continues to roil college campuses around the country, the focus of attention in the Jewish community has largely been on students. High-profile and big-money efforts — $50 million from Las Vegas billionaire...
BDS and the Rising Danger of ‘Intersectionality’
(JTA) — If you want to understand why the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, or BDS, has gained so much ground in the past two years, look no further than intersectionality, the study of related...
Top intellectuals mobilize against anti-Israel activity on campus
JTA — Alarmed by what they called “Orwellian efforts” to link Israel with a multitude of free-speech issues now roiling American college campuses, a group of influential academics has launched an initiative to combat anti-Semitism...
Faculty Opposing BDS on U.S. Campuses
In an October 2015 essay on BDS in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, distinguished historian and UCLA chair of Jewish Studies David N. Myers offered that not all Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...
BDS and Campus Politics: A Bad Romance
George Orwell remarked in 1984 that “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Orwell’s aphorism describes the strategy of today’s proponents of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on college campuses against Israel....
New network of academics to provide resources for opposing BDS on campus
(JNS.org) A newly formed network of academics will work to support Israel and oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish state on American college campuses. Launched this week, the Academic Engagement...