UNIV. OF CALIF. PROMOTES ANTI-SEMITISM OF PACBI

Visit AMCHA watch the two videos below:   AMCHA Update: AMCHA Co-founders send letter to CSU officials urging them to revoke sponsorship of Ilan Pappe speaking tour. AMCHA Update: AMCHA sends Chancellor Reed an open letter with over 1,800 signatures   AMCHA Initiative co-founders and over 1,800 supp...

THE SHAMEFUL DOUBLE STANDARD OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Shameful double standard Op-ed: Abuses of non-Western regimes excused, democracies’ sins magnified Frayda Leibtag Human Rights Watch (HRW), one of the world’s largest non-government organizations, is failing in its mandate to protect universal human rights. In closed societies where the organization’s work is most needed, and where...

BDS conference at Penn met my worst expectations

From an article by Guy Herschmann ia senior at U.C. Santa Cruz and the campus professional for StandWithUs in Northern California and Western Canada.  Originally published in the Jweekly   Toward the end of last week, I flew from the Bay Area to Philadelphia for the national BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) conference...

PENNBDS Mobilizes Supporters of Israel

From an article by Alex Mishkin , originally published at the David Project You’ve Got a Friend in US Hatred is no match for the message of peace and friendship. Nowhere was this more evident than the University of Pennsylvania. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement held their national confer...

PennBDS – Perspective

 The last in a series of brilliant essays on the PennBDS confwerence at the Divest This blog: PennBDS – Perspective   Well the PennBDS conference has come and gone and before looking at what it all adds up to, I’d like to start by congratulating the organizers for the impressive job they accomplished. ...

U Penn BDS Conference on How to Dismantle Israel

From an article by David Roberts, originally posted here The University of Pennsylvania will be breaking all precedents about legitimizing and mainstreaming anti-Israel activism on prominent college campuses this week -- and crossing a new red line -- by hosting a conference, called PennBDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), which op...

PennBDS - Direct Action and Spectacle

Originally posted here at the Divest this website.   Back in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, when 3.5 inch floppy disks were considered cutting edge, I attended some of the big computing tradeshows that defined that pre-Internet era (PC Expo, Mac World and – the big one – Comdex), as both a journalist and an exhibitor. ...

PACBI FOUNDER OMAR BARGHOUTI: JESUS WAS A PALESTIN

Tel Aviv University's Academic Standards on Display: PhD candidate Omar Barghouti Does the Jihad Tour By Lee Kaplan, www.Isracampus.org.il 24/1/2012 Recently Omar Barghouti, a Columbia graduate in electrical engineering who is now pursuing a PhD at Tel Aviv University in Philosophy spoke at three occasions in northern Californ...

BDS BEGETS ANTI-SEMITISM ON CAMPUS

This letter was written by Tammi Benjamin and others to the Jewish Community of California June 2, 2011 Dear Jewish Community of California, Bigotry against Jewish students has occurred on University of California campuses over many years and on ma...

BEN GURION U. POLITICS DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO CLOSE

     Shut it Down, Don’t Try to Make it “Balanced”!!     By Professor Israel David, Ben Gurion University Ope-ed in Maariv, January 30, 2012 (translated by Steven Plaut, Isracampus)     Complete closing down of the Department of Poli...

Students voice opinions against BDS at UPenn

PIPAC hopes to promote Penn-Israeli ties through an online petition From an article  in The Daily Pennsylvanian By Sarah Smith   Penn students who oppose the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions conference now have a formalized venue in which they can voice their opinion. Days before the conference is set to be...

BDS and Academia

From an article in J Post   By ASAF ROMIROWSKY AND JOHN R. COHN   A self-proclaimed National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference is set to take place at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy league institution in the heart of Philadelphia, during the weekend of February 4. Last held in 2009, according to...

PennBDS and The Academic Boycott

An important new article at Divest this: PennBDS – The Academic Boycott   This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. On a couple of previous occasions, I’ve mentioned some name changes to items in the PennBDS a...

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions at the Universit

  The PennBDS movement claims on their website: We categorically oppose all forms of bigotry and racial, ethnic and religious discrimination, including anti-Arab, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic racism and hate. In contradiction of the above statement, however, some of the speakers scheduled to participate in the confer...

PennBDS-oy. Information resources on the UPenn BDS

From the PennBDS-oy Blog: The BDSers are coming to town... Download the Divest This! Guide. Well, to the University of Pennsylvania, anyway. Yes, this year's big US conference on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) targeting Israel is scheduled for February 4th and 5th at U Penn where an international lineup...

U OF PENN REJECTS BDS

StandWithUs Press Release December 23, 2011 We are pleased to report that just a few hours ago, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn)  officially announced that the  Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) national conference, scheduled to be held on their campus in February, 2012, does not have the university’s imprim...

DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO ALIENATE CAMPUS JEWS FROM ISRA

The Israel Project - Poll of Jewish College Student in the US   College Student National Interview Schedule October 28 - November 20, 2011 Project: 11559 N=400 Jewish College Students Margin of Error: +4.9% http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7B9314a74c-c58d-43ae-83f8-73a4...

DESPITE ATTEMPTS TO ALIENATE CAMPUS JEWS FROM ISRA

The Israel Project - Poll of Jewish College Student in the US   College Student National Interview Schedule October 28 - November 20, 2011 Project: 11559 N=400 Jewish College Students Margin of Error: +4.9% http://www.theisraelproject.org/atf/cf/%7B9314a74c-c58d-43ae-83f8...

YES, THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITIC

  YES, THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITIC   By  Jonathon  S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine   There were those who wondered about the wisdom of President Obama’s appointment of Hannah Rosenthal ​ as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semi...

YES, THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITIC

  YES, THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL IS ANTI-SEMITIC   By  Jonathon  S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine   There were those who wondered about the wisdom of President Obama’s appointment of Hannah Rosenthal ​ as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semi...