Tufts University Rejects Calls From Student Activists to Boycott Jewish Campus Organizations Over Israel
"We strongly oppose this renewed campaign at Tufts"...
"We strongly oppose this renewed campaign at Tufts"...
Seven institutional members have left MESA due to the Israel boycott resolution, including Brandeis University: "The resolution attacks the fundamental principles of academic freedom and association...
MESA has been captured by activists bent on the destruction of Israel by any means possible....
Licensee claims Ben & Jerry’s and its corporate owner broke their contract by conditioning license renewal on a boycott that violates American and Israeli law....
"It was a rare victory for Jewish groups on college campuses, which have grown increasingly hostile to Israel."...
“and suddenly it occurred to me that here I was in the belly of the beast, and that if they found out, I would be in real trouble.”...
“Last night’s vote represents a pattern of antisemitism at the University of Toronto that has gone unchecked for years"...
MESA membership is voting now on a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions. After the IDF arrested five student operatives at a Hamas stronghold, MESA accused Israel of a "horrifying escalation of ongoing assaults on Palestinian universities.”...
MESA website lists 8 fewer institutional members since MESA passed an initial BDS resolution, which now is in process of a membership ratification vote....
"and asking students to boycott classes discussing Israel or who are taught by Israeli fellows"...
MESA members have from January 31-March 22 to decide whether to ratify a pro-BDS resolution, based on the resolution's unsubstantiated claims. MESA members' request for a discussion forum where resolution supporters can offer support for their claims has so far gone unanswered....
LIF has now written to GWU three times asking whether MESA will be permitted to operate its planned discriminatory and anti-academic freedom boycott through GWU’s campus, which houses MESA’s HQ. To date, GWU has ignored our questions....
"The FSU Middle East Center did not renew its annual membership in MESA for the 2022 calendar year. Membership expired Dec. 31, 2021."...
“As a matter of law and principle, the State of Florida does not tolerate discrimination against the State of Israel or the Israeli people, including boycotts and divestments targeting Israel (the BDS movement)”...
"While criticism of Israel is not necessarily antisemitic, the inordinate amount of attention given to Israel and the excessive criticism directed at that one country is evidence of a double-standard with respect to the Jewish state, which is a central feature of a widely accepted...
My appearance on Breitbart News Sunday On SiriusXM Radio with Joel Pollak: "Our U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries”...
"The Illinois Investment Policy Board vote to add Unilever to the state’s prohibited entity list was unanimous."...
"It is our expectation that Florida State University will not permit MESA to operate a boycott of Israel through a public institution, will not accept the academic boycott of Israel, and will not allow university funds to be paid indirectly or directly to any organization that endorses...
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