BDS on American Campuses: SJP and its NGO Network
NGO Monitor's campus report identifies the broad coalition of organizations that are funding, training and assisting BDS activists on US campuses.
Publications: | Reports, Books, Academic Publications, Submissions, Resource Pages |
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Other Content Types: | Press Releases, In The Media, Presentations, Posts, , Key Issues |
NGOs: | Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) |
Start date: | 1 Jan 1988 |
End date: | 27 Jul 2021 |
NGO Monitor's campus report identifies the broad coalition of organizations that are funding, training and assisting BDS activists on US campuses.
Yitzhak Santis discusses Students for Justice in Palestines virulently anti-Israel activities on college campuses, including linking a tuition hike in the CUNY system to its "Zionist administration," and notes the network of politicized NGOs that fund and support the groups events.
Yona Schiffmiller calls upon the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to restrict its funding of politicized NGOs that, instead of promoting peace and justice, provide justifications for terrorism and support anti-Israel campaigns, prolonging the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In response to the recent wave of terror, government officials, repeating claims made by highly politicized NGOs, have accused Israel of using "excessive force" when responding to attacks against Israeli civilians, criminalizing Israels right to defend itself.
NGOs with stated human rights agendas, who are generally extremely vocal regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, have avoided condemning the recent terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens, instead focusing only on the Israeli response to such attacks.
Bassem Tamimi, a Palestinian from the village of Nabi Saleh, is going on a speaking tour in the US from September - October 2015, sponsored by a number of highly biased and politicized NGOs active in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Gerald Steinberg claims that BDS campaigns are clearly a form of discrimination based on double standards and singling out Israel, as the Jewish state, for attack.
Adalahs establishment of a US representative and its participation in a US-based event held by some of the most virulent global BDS and anti-Israel groups violate basic principles of its major donor, the New Israel Fund.
Yitzhak Santis claims that betrayal is a strong word, but when a group of Diaspora Jews joins forces with Israels most extreme adversaries seeking to strip the Jewish people of the inalienable right to national self-determination there is no other word to describe such behavior.