"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...
"policies that are antithetical to the principles of open inquiry, academic freedom, and the free and unfettered intellectual exchange of ideas"...
Our Op-Ed in The NY Post: "As increasing numbers of Middle Eastern countries normalize relations with Israel, MESA seeks to expunge Israel from Middle Eastern Studies."...
My Op-Ed at JNS on court challenges to anti-BDS legislation and ways to improve the laws consistent with First Amendment rights....
"Mr. Van Zile was intimidated, harassed, and assaulted by rally participants who turned on him after another participant identified him as a “rabid Zionist,” based on his knowledge of Mr. Van Zile’s editorials supporting Israel and criticizing its detractors. Mr. Van Zile informs us that...
The founders parroted the incorrect "international law" argument people use to justify boycotting Israel....
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated, "There are many ice cream brands, but only one Jewish state."...
In an age when nearly everyone appears keen to publicly prove their 'woke' credentials, students at Yale University refuse to be outdone. The quickest way to demonstrate your anti-racist bonafides on campus? Self-satisfied student government "resolutions" condemning only the Jewish State.
Morocco normalized relations with Israel under the Trump-brokered Abraham Accords. The antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement showed it's even more extreme than Hamas in enforcing secondary boycotts of Israel....
