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Illustrative photo of boycott advocates. (Photo: Brian S / Shutterstock.com)
Israel’s president calls BDS a ‘strategic threat’
The resources and attention Israel’s government is investing in fighting BDS indicates that the Palestinian-led boycott movement is making serious inroads. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin held an “emergency” meeting Thursday with the heads of Israel’s universities and colleges to discuss the academic boycott, which he described as a “strategic threat.” Israeli institutions and officials have…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man May 28, 2015
Participants in the Open Hillel Conference, Harvard University. (photo: Gili Getz)
How Israel stupefies so many brilliant Jews
It’s the occupation, professor. Deja vu from the Technion. On the eve of Passover 1988, I was working at the Technion, Israel’s prestigious technological institute in Haifa, writing fundraising prose. It was a few months into the First Intifada, and Israel’s image had been taking a battering overseas like never before, with scenes being televised continually…
By Larry Derfner December 24, 2014
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