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The silencing of Israeli voices on British campuses

Whilst anti-Israel activism on British campuses is well known for its severity and hostility, two incidents in recent days seem to have raised the bar to a whole new level. The most widely talked about incident took place at Oxford … Continue reading

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BDS Brigade devour their own

Professor Dan Avnon, an Israeli professor of civics, and the head of the “Center for Peace and Reconciliation” (From the Hebrew NRG article: המרכז לשלום ויישוב סכסוכים – h/t: Ido) has been boycotted by Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and … Continue reading

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Ariel “University Center” is now a full-fledged university

Despite the wishes of several leftist politicians and academics to the contrary, the transition of Ariel University Center to Israel’s eighth university has been approved. The Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria took an historic decision Tuesday evening, … Continue reading

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Israel Apartheid Week – victories and defeats

The annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) – which should be renamed Israel Apartheid Month because there’s too much hate to fit into just one week – has been taking place across campuses worldwide, and spilling over into “regular” BDS against … Continue reading

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Yale University, Antisemitism, and the Left

Via Jewish Ideas Daily I first learned of the closing of the Yale University’s YIISA program, aka the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism.  At first it sounded like simple economics, or perhaps academic disagreements, but the more … Continue reading

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