By: Tzahi Gavrieli, YnetNews
Mon Apr 8 2013
Mon Apr 8 2013
They meet in small groups on campus; funded by foreign money. They understand that this method of operation gives them more influence than any act of physical violence would. They are young people who convince others; they are builders of public opinion. Step by step they take control of the leaderships of student unions and organizations; pro-Palestinian activists join extreme left-wingers in...
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By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Jewish Press
Mon Jan 14 2013
Mon Jan 14 2013
There hasn't been a lot of good news recently for pro-Israel watchers of campus culture, but in the unlikeliest of places, by the unlikeliest of Zionists, there is finally good news to share. The University of New Orleans has nearly 13,000 undergraduate students, fewer than 100 of whom are Jewish. There are no Jewish studies courses, there are no Jewish services available and there is...
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By: Richard D. Barton, San Francisco Chronicle
Thu Aug 23 2012
Thu Aug 23 2012
For the past decade, a movement of protest against Israel, its policies and Zionism has occupied a central place on University of California and other college and university campuses. The nature of the messages embodied in that movement has drawn tremendous attention and study. Israel "Apartheid" weeks, mock checkpoints in which students carry fake automatic...
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By: Tammi Benjamin & Leila Beckwith, The AMCHA Initiative
Mon Aug 20 2012
Mon Aug 20 2012
Dear UC Advisory Committee on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion: We are faculty at the University of California who, for the last several years, have been involved with efforts to document and address campus anti-Semitism in institutions of higher education in the United States. We are also co-founders of the AMCHA Initiative, an organization dedicated to informing the...
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By: Gerald M. Steinberg Yitzhak Santis, The Jewish Week
Tue Jul 24 2012
Tue Jul 24 2012
At the Pittsburgh General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) earlier this month, a motion to adopt a boycott of three companies for doing business with Israel was hotly debated and narrowly defeated. At this Christian gathering, a group of "young Jewish activists" provided important "testimony" supporting the motion to isolate and demonize Israel. ...
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