Campus Activism: the Fight for Imaginary Victories
…The BDS Movements—Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions—is a cat’s paw of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The goal is to de-legitimize the state of Israel…
…The BDS Movements—Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions—is a cat’s paw of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The goal is to de-legitimize the state of Israel…
Just as a new conflict breaks out between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East, the professoriate’s bias against Israel is resurfacing in novel, ugly ways. The Washington Free Beacon…
…Vassar. Hassan tells of his attempts to balance the criticism of Israel on his campus. When he posts images of Israelis in Tel Aviv, to make the point that Israelis…
…a coalition of academics, left, right, and center, who usually don’t get along. Even very staunch, progressive critics of Israel understand that the boycott movement demonizes Israel and undermines efforts…
…BDS. The Three Stages of a BDS Campaign The BDS campaign is a new front in the Arab-Israeli conflict, directed at Israel. Its tactics are simple. Stage 1: Start a…
…radicalism toward a rather moderate conservatism took place gradually over many years and involved several important issues, including the defense of Israel, education, racial politics, and the failures of the…
…commentary under the authority of a Harvard faculty position.” She recommends that those who favor an academic boycott of Israel bypass academic freedom objections and focus on academic justice instead….
The MLA meeting of the delegate assembly to debate the resolution criticizing Israeli policies has received ample publicity, including Cary Nelson’s vehement opposition in the Wall Street Journal and the…
…real terrorist threats to Israeli citizens” that followed the “breakdown of peace negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinan Authority.” It is no wonder they decided to remove the…
…Palestine/Israel, the United States, and Canada.” Pinkwashing, in case any MTC reader is fortunate enough never to have encountered the term, refers especially to the idea that mentioning Israel’s respect…
…the American Studies Association’s anti-Israel boycott is an extremist academic idea that never should have seen the light of day. And like the Guth tweet, it’s produced a political backlash,…
…for individual faculty members to decide.” [Emphasis added.] It seems that working against a nationality-based boycott of Israel just isn’t important enough for Eisgruber to potentially confront anti-Israel extremists among…
Just three days after the American Studies Association announced its boycott of Israeli academic institutions, I was able to report here that Brandeis University and Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg would cancel…
The membership of the American Studies Association (ASA) on December 15 voted by a two-thirds majority to endorse a boycott of Israeli universities. Minding the Campus has provided good coverage…
…called for disinvestment as a means of pressuring Israel. But even as strong an Israel critic as Slotkin can see the trouble with American Studies scholars taking “a partisan position…
…Israeli universities or its official representatives. Since the American Studies Association has few if any official ties with Israeli universities, the resolution is purely symbolic. However, the symbolism is terrible….
As David Bernstein has reported on this site, the American Studies Association’s National Council voted last month to endorse an academic boycott of Israel. At the same time the Council…
…originally proposed, the boycott was to apply to individual Israeli scholars, who, for example, wished to participate in the ASA’s annual conference, if they received Israeli government or university funding….
…anti-Israel resolution, apply one standard toward Israeli professors and another toward themselves? Over the past several months, another academic anti-Israel boycott had percolated, this one among members of the Oral…
…fanatically anti-Israel graduate student who hadn’t even passed his qualifying exams, to teach a graduate class. Surely the UFS can’t seriously maintain that Petraeus, like Peterson-Overton, was unqualified for the…
…the crowd. At one training session, Starkman encountered “a low-income student with top grades and scores, and who had served in the Israeli army.” But this applicant received only a…
…concept; the “pinkwasher” theorists allege, without evidence, that Israel uses its generally positive record on gay rights to obscure its allegedly evil treatment of the Palestinians. Of course, if Israel…
…from tobacco companies, from companies that profit from the Darfur region of Sudan, and even from the nation of Israel. However, none of the copycat campaigns appear to have been…
…to class without passing at least one group of surly protestors every day. Sometimes more than one. You name it: protesting Taco Bell, protesting Israel, this and that, to the…
…Israel which included “a map of 1967 Israel that is labeled ‘Palestine.’” What distinguished Gershman’s reporting, however, was his ability to bring readers inside of Massad’s classes. (Massad refused to…
…skirt this point by specifying that this boycott targets “Israeli institutions and not Israeli scholars” and that they will encourage “partnerships” between AAAS members of pro-Palestinian Israeli academics. This distinction,…
…itself with the talk, which featured two speakers who advocated a nationality-based boycott against Israelis, divestment from Israel, and international sanctions against the Jewish state.) An investigation ensued, and CUNY…
The year of the extremist continues at CUNY’s Brooklyn College. Fresh off the anti-Israel BDS fiasco, the college has announced that the prestigious Charles Lawrence Memorial Lecture will be delivered…
…for two decades, Israel has a national non-discrimination law based on sexual orientation, and the Israeli government, unlike the U.S. government, recognizes same-sex civil marriages performed in other jurisdictions. (Israel…
…ventures with Israel if a majority of the faculty formally endorsed BDS. It’s little wonder that many of the strongest critics of Israel on the faculty publicly praised Gould for…