BDS Tag

Cornell Student Assembly Overwhelmingly Rejects Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution Over Gaza

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 01, 2024 18 Comments

Rejected by 16 No, 4 Yes, in favor of a separate compromise resolution on divesting from military contractors that does not mention Israel or Gaza. This was a pretty resounding defeat for BDS on campus, a reflection not so much of views of the underlying...

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Columbia University Students Organizing ‘Tuition Strike’ to Force School to Divest From Israel

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 12, 2023 40 Comments

“We demand that a referendum be established for students from all schools of Columbia University on the issue of divestment from companies profiting from or otherwise supporting Israeli apartheid and Columbia’s academic ties to Israel”...

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Harvard ‘Pro-Palestine’ Students Chanted ‘Globalize the Intifada’ During Anti-Israel ‘Week of Action’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 08, 2023 3 Comments

"The week was reportedly organized by members of the Harvard graduate student union’s Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) caucus and the African and African American Resistance Organization."...

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Teachers in Oakland School District Plan Pro-Palestinian ‘Teach-in’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 07, 2023 6 Comments

"The Israeli government created an apartheid state and the Israeli government leaders have espoused genocidal rhetoric and policies against the people of Palestine"...

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Anti-Israel Students at Cornell Stage Mock Trial of School President, Accusing Her of Complicity in ‘Genocide Against Palestinian Civilians’

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 02, 2023 12 Comments

"The Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation — an on-campus group advocating for the Palestinian cause — organized the demonstration."...

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Eighteen Faculty Members at Princeton Pen Letter Endorsing the Anti-Israel BDS Movement

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 01, 2023 6 Comments

"We refuse to muzzle our criticism of the Israeli siege and genocidal assault on Gaza"...

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U. Michigan Cancels Anti-Israel Vote After ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Students Send Unauthorized Email Blast

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 30, 2023 14 Comments

But the university took "this action with deep reluctance."...

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Saturday Night Live Alum Jon Lovitz Calls Out Bernie Sanders and the ‘Squad’ for Their Anti-Israel Positions

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 23, 2023 16 Comments

"And [Sanders is] saying, you know, we shouldn't have money for, you know, fund Israel, you know, and the Squad, those people… It's no secret they're horribly antisemitic"...

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“Multiple Organs in Transit for Multiple Patients” Delayed By Pro-Hamas Shutdown Of San Francisco Bay Bridge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 16, 2023 41 Comments

"Protesters were lying down with white sheets over their bodies ...

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Cornell graduate student workers vote to join anti-Israel national union

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2023 19 Comments

On a campus wracked with anti-Israel activism and antisemitic invective, the connection to an anti-Israel national union raises concerns of a renewed BDS effort: "anti-Israel activists should not be permitted to get in through the union back door what they have been unable to get...

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“Racial doctrines such as ‘critical race theory’ and ‘intersectionality’ are the mother’s milk of antisemitism on campuses”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2023 12 Comments

Me quoted in NY Post about survey showing that nearly as many college students back Hamas as Israel....

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Grad Student Union at Harvard Endorses Anti-Israel BDS Movement

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 14, 2023 0 Comments

"Approximately 64 percent of about 600 union members voted Friday in support of a BDS statement"...

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U. Arizona Profs: Hamas is an Anti-Zionist Resistance Group, Not ‘Antisemitic’ or ‘Terrorists’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 13, 2023 5 Comments

The professors also told students they can support "Palestine" by participating the BDS movement and march....

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Oberlin College Under Federal Investigation For Campus Culture Of Antisemitism

Posted by Jane Coleman on November 12, 2023 29 Comments

Thanks to a Trump-era executive order, Oberlin could lose millions of dollars in federal funding....

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Providence Police Arrest 18 People During Anti-Israel Protest at Brown University

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 09, 2023 3 Comments

“Divestment from companies profiting from ongoing violence in Gaza is a material way for Brown University to promote an immediate ceasefire and a lasting peace”...

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‘Pro-Palestinian’ Students Arrested at Dartmouth College for Trespassing After Threat

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2023 9 Comments

“You have until the first day of the winter term to publicly address our demands and outline a plan to meet them. If you fail to do so, we will escalate and take further action”...

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George Washington U. Students Project Anti-Semitic Messages on School Library Building

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 25, 2023 26 Comments

"Glory to our Martyrs"...

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UPenn to Host Anti-Israel Hate Fest During Jewish Holidays

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on September 14, 2023 14 Comments

University administrators admit they have "deep concerns about several speakers who have a documented and troubling history of engaging in antisemitism."...

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