April's Israel divestment vote at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is just the latest unfortunate expression of how hateful an environment the anti-Israel movement can create for Jewish students and supporters of Israel on campus. I witnessed this firsthand during my four years as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley from 2007-2011. In 2010, when the last...

  The glaring double standard at play in campus discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was highlighted yet again this past week when a Southern California liberal arts college president forced an Israeli professor to apologize for a comment he made to a Palestinian student at an anti-Israel protest. What exactly happened around dinnertime on March 4 is a matter of some dispute,...

  Last month, in a five-thirty a.m. vote that followed ten hours of speeches and deliberations, the University of California Berkeley student government passed a momentous resolution calling upon the university to divest from three companies that help Israel defend itself against Palestinian terrorism. One might well ask how this could be considered momentous. Doesn't the Berkeley student...

  The passage of the ASUC's recent divestment bill has, since its inception, engaged this campus in heated and passionate debate. On the night of the vote, hundreds packed into the senate meeting room, many staying until early the next morning to hear the final 11-9 vote. And yet, the proceedings of last Wednesday paint, at most, an incomplete picture of just how the situation unfolded....

  Dr Ilan Saban is a lecturer at the University of Haifa who devotes much of his time defending and promoting the rights of Palestinians. But if he were to post one of his articles on the subject to a journal in Ireland, his envelope might not be opened, simply because it had come from Israel. This is the result of the Teachers Union of Ireland's recent unjust, unfair, and...