Universities boycott israel

US organizations urge Congress to pass act targeting undisclosed foreign funding in universities

Qatar was revealed to be the largest foreign source of gifts and contracts to American universities in 2025, worth more than $1.1 billion.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
United States Capitol building in Washington, DC.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage at ADL's Never Is Now conference on March 3, 2025 in New York City.

Jewish orgs. slam NGO report detailing 'Zionist attack on academic freedom'

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish Committee (AJC), and the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) made a joint statement calling out the report.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Sample Gates on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 3, 2010.

Vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel in Indiana

Indiana University’s Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students.

|ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Leon Botstein has led Bard College since 1975.

Bard president Leon Botstein: 'Trump's campaign against colleges follows classic antisemitism'

In Botstein’s view, the government’s demands of these schools do the opposite of fighting antisemitism. “The government is playing out a classic antisemitic routine,” he said.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

US academic group overwhelmingly rejects BDS

"The boycotters, whose entire identities revolve around boycotting Israeli Jews, cannot let go of the issue and seek to insert it into unrelated organizations."

JUNE 15, 2017ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
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Combating BDS with a push of the button

Act.IL app creates a virtual situation room of pro-Israel experts.

JUNE 4, 2017ByNOA AMOUYAL
Anti-Israel demonstrators march behind a banner of the BDS organization in Marseille, June 13.

Despite protests, Israeli ambassador speaks at London university

The ambassador’s invite from the school’s Jewish and United Nations societies had been a subject of huge controversy among the university’s students and faculty.

APRIL 30, 2017ByJOSH DELL
Protesters and counter-protesters gather outside London’s School of Oriental and African Studies

Thousands of students work diligently to advocate for Israel

The story of Israel and the Zionist struggle is one that nearly everyone can relate to in some way.

APRIL 24, 2017ByELIAV TERK
Israel Apartheid Week at Columbia University.

The hypocrisy of BDS on a university campus

On an average day an individual cannot scroll through their twitter feed without seeing some controversy brewing on campus.

APRIL 5, 2017ByMATT HELFAND
LEBANESE STUDENTS hand out buttons encouraging a boycott of Israel.

The new tech tool helping to flag campus antisemitism

Maps also hone in on faculty members who back academic boycott of Israel.

MARCH 30, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Interactive maps created by AMCHA Initiative that flag campus antisemitism

North American IDF reservists seek to counter BDS

“If you really want to build peace, then boycotts are the last thing that you need, because you are just pushing the two peoples apart.”

MARCH 7, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
A GROUP of IDF reservists pose yesterday with Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan (center) at a two-day seminar teaching how to combat BDS.

Israeli-American students gather in LA to sharpen tools against BDS

400 youths discuss questions of identity and life on campus.

FEBRUARY 21, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Israeli-American students gather in LA to sharpen tools against BDS

California students approve resolution to remove Sabra hummus from campus

The University of California-Riverside student government decided to remove Israeli-owned Sabra hummus from campus dining areas by a vote of 13 to 0.

FEBRUARY 6, 2017ByJTA
Hummus

Time to Bless US-Israel Academic Cooperation

JANUARY 1, 2017ByMITCHELL BARD
The Jerusalem Post