The ADL wants to see the continuation of Israeli abuse of Palestinian human rights – and the repression of free speech on American campuses – rather than cause discomfort among Jewish students.
David Brog announced that his organization secretly funded over 3,200 pro-Israel events on 112 campuses in 2019, and brought over 2,300 student leaders on “transformative trips to Israel.” He writes: “You will never see our name on the events we sponsor…”
The Anti Defamation League (ADL) is trying to win a contract with California universities to do “anti-bias” training – but ADL is a deeply biased organization and should be stopped.
Katherine Franke writes in the New York Review of Books that while Palestinian rights are getting more attention than ever, advocates of justice still face accusations of “anti-Semitism,” harassment, and most of all, censorship on college campuses….
Article in the Florida A&M campus newspaper describes how AIPAC woos student leaders from historically black colleges and universities…
Ha’aretz reveals that a secretive Israeli firm collected intelligence on U.S. citizen Linda Sarsour and her family, acting on behalf of an American-Israeli organization established to combat the BDS movement. The firm delivered the dossier to the pro-Israel Act.IL group, which used it as the basis of a campaign to discourage U.S. colleges from allowing the pro-BDS activist to speak on campus
Repuglican Sheldon Adelson’s Maccabee Task Force is working creatively on college campuses to woo progressive students and groups; funding per campus is in the “low six figures.” The group is working with Hillel.
UC Irvine’s Students for Justice in Palestine group were harassed and intimidated during their anti-Zionism week events by Israel supporters. The campus has been a focal point for Israel advocacy groups seeking to conflate Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism.
Israel’s “plan” for Gaza is “unworkable, dangerous, and potentially illegal”, aid distribution scheme sounds like a “military strategy,”; Gaza’s morgues overwhelmed; “gender reveal” home demolition; Trump says US will help ‘people of Gaza get some food’; campus protest news
Only a “lucky few” get past Israeli bureaucracy and out of Gaza for medical care; West Bank: lone resistance fighter storms Israeli army post, kills several Israeli soldiers; 1,000 after Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination; Jenin horrors; campus protest