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The BDS Movement is Co-Opting the Invasion of Ukraine to Drive Hatred of Israel on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 07, 2022 2 Comments

“international community is being hypocritical and racist by being more sympathetic towards the Ukrainians because of their color, religion and race”...

Breaking With Past, American Association of University Professors Refuses to Condemn Boycott of Israel By Middle East Studies Ass’n

Posted by Johanna Markind on April 06, 2022 10 Comments

For decades, AAUP has condemned academic boycotts, including boycotts of Israel. Reflecting AAUP’s increasing radicalism and anti-Israel hostility, the association will not offer a statement condemning MESA’s boycott, according to a spokeswoman....

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Tufts University Rejects Calls From Student Activists to Boycott Jewish Campus Organizations Over Israel

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 05, 2022 2 Comments

"We strongly oppose this renewed campaign at Tufts"...

Israel-Boycotting Middle East Studies Association Loses Another Institutional Member, Takes Down Membership List

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 31, 2022 2 Comments

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...

Academic Ethnic Cleansing: Middle East Studies Association Signs Onto Boycott of Israel

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 24, 2022 9 Comments

MESA has been captured by activists bent on the destruction of Israel by any means possible....

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Israeli Company Sues Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever To Maintain License

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 20, 2022 24 Comments

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....

Jewish Students at University of Virginia Defeat Anti-Israel Campaign

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 20, 2022 2 Comments

"It was a rare victory for Jewish groups on college campuses, which have grown increasingly hostile to Israel."...

How a Pro-Israel Blogger Exposed the Anti-Semitic BDS Movement in London

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 28, 2022 1 Comment

“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.”...

Student Union at University of Toronto Adopts BDS Motion

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 18, 2022 1 Comment

“Last night’s vote represents a pattern of antisemitism at the University of Toronto that has gone unchecked for years"...

Middle East Studies Association Defends Terror-Infused Palestinian University, While Moving To Boycott Israeli Academia

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 13, 2022 2 Comments

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.”...

Middle East Studies Association Losing Institutional Members As Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution Voting Starts

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 09, 2022 15 Comments

MESA website lists 8 fewer institutional members since MESA passed an initial BDS resolution, which now is in process of a membership ratification vote....

Pro-Palestinian Group at U. Chicago Urges Students to Avoid ‘Sh**ty Zionist Classes’

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 05, 2022 5 Comments

"and asking students to boycott classes discussing Israel or who are taught by Israeli fellows"...

Membership Voting To Ratify Anti-Israel Academic Boycott Starts At Middle East Studies Association

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 31, 2022 7 Comments

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....

Will George Washington U Let Middle East Studies Ass’n Operate International Anti-Israel Academic Boycott From Its HQ On GWU’s Campus?

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 25, 2022 2 Comments

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....

Florida State Drops Middle East Studies Association Membership As Group Moves Towards Israel Boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2022 12 Comments

"The FSU Middle East Center did not renew its annual membership in MESA for the 2022 calendar year. Membership expired Dec. 31, 2021."...

Middle East Studies Association Members In “Legal Jeopardy” If Carry Out Israel Boycott On Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2021 0 Comments

“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)”...

Heritage Foundation Report – “Inclusion Delusion: The Antisemitism of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff at Universities”

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 26, 2021 8 Comments

"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...

Middle East Studies Association Boycotting Israel “Is Basically the Old Anti-Jewish Boycott”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2021 26 Comments

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”...

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