My friends at the Amcha Initiative and 100 other groups have sent a letter to 250 heads of colleges and universities asking them to reject the numerous boycotts directed at Israel.
https://www.jta.org/2018/12/04/top-headlines/101-jewish-pro-israel-groups-ask-universities-oppose-israel-boycotts
I am certainly in agreement with the letter. These boycotts are a thinly-disguised effort to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, first and foremost because it is a Jewish state located in a sea of surrounding Muslim states. To their credit, almost every university has rejected faculty and student resolutions and other calls for boycotting Israel, its products and its academics.
In addition, I would like to see letters directed to virtually every institution of higher learning in the country asking their administrators to actively and pro-actively stand up to all forms of anti-semitism on their campuses. It is not just criticism of Israel and Zionism; more and more campuses are seeing swastikas appear on their walls. Jewish students are being bullied and intimidated by pro-Palestinian forces on campus. Hate speech is taking over. We are drifting back to a dark time in world history, and this drift must be stopped.
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