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Jonah S. Rubin

@jsrubin.bsky.social
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Sr. Manager of Campus Organizing at jvp.bsky.social | Anthropologist of human rights, Forensic Science, Death, and News Literacy / "Fake News"

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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Israeli army blows up school, shells Lebanon towns despite truce ysafak.com/en/3724086/p/x
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Israeli army blows up school, shells Lebanon towns despite truce
Israeli forces blew up a school and shelled towns across southern Lebanon on Saturday, violating a US-sponsored ceasefire agreement signed in June.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An Israeli strike killed five Palestinians in Gaza City, including Christian volunteers, a university lecturer, her mother, and Bilal Awda. www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-stri...
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Alice Rothchild, MD @alicerothchild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The California chapter of the American Psychological Association (APA) has cancelled a webinar on Antisemitism because it did not include criticism of the Israeli genocide in Gaza as antisemitic. See Roy Eidelson’s article here: royeidelson.com/israel-defen...
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Israel-Defending Healthcare Professionals Find Their Latest Target: A Continuing Education Webinar About…Antisemitism! – Roy Eidelson
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Israeli Forces Raid Birzeit University Campus During Final Exams, Storm Building en.minanews.net/israeli-forc...
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Israeli Forces Raid Birzeit University Campus During Final Exams, Storm Building
Israeli occupation forces raided the campus of Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, on Saturday and stormed one of its buildings.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Students at War: The Seemingly Impossible Fight for Palestinian Student Visas universitytimes.ie/2026/09/stud...
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Students at War: The Seemingly Impossible Fight for Palestinian Student Visas
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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Profoundly disappointed in our Chancellor, as a member of the UCLA law faculty and a Jew, for so quickly forgetting the lesson Justice Jackson and others taught us at Nuremberg: the rule of law demands that everyone be provided a robust defense.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“We are suing because no student, regardless of their background, should go through the hell that Columbia put us through over all these years,” Khalil said when announcing the lawsuit against both Columbia University www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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Why is pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil suing Columbia University?
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University and its dean for alleged institutional racism targeting pro-Palestine students.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...
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The Right Reform Rabbi | Aaron Jakes
When Buchdahl professes that she can understand “how even white men in America are feeling,” she unwittingly reveals a structuring affinity between the politics of white reaction and her own anti-anti...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the right way to talk about this issue to media
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Jerusalem schools strike as Israel forces curriculum and bans teachers
East Jerusalem schools strike as Israeli permit bans and forced curricula plunge the academic year into chaos.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
CAIR Calls on U.S. Universities to Drop Israeli Military Funding After Report Reveals Millions from Israel’s Military www.cair.com/press_releas...
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CAIR Calls on U.S. Universities to Drop Israeli Military Funding After Report Reveals Millions from Israel’s Military
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on U.S. universities to immediately review, disclose, and terminate r...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Israeli forces begin destruction of UNRWA Kalandia Training Centre campus in East Jerusalem | Arab News www.arabnews.com/node/2655796...
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Israeli forces begin destruction of UNRWA campus in East Jerusalem
DUBAI: Israeli forces began demolition of UNRWA Kalandia Training Centre premises in East Jerusalem with armored vehicles on Tuesday morning. “At least four armoured vehicles entered the premises, acc...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Israeli forces raided Khan Tankiz near Al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented a graduation ceremony for students from Al-Quds University from taking place. www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
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Israeli police raid Palestinian graduation venue in occupied East Jerusalem, detain several attendees
3 Palestinians also injured in attack by Israeli occupiers near Hebron as Israeli army carries out raids across West Bank | Anadolu
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
‘We were once a school that allowed voices on campus. Now, no voices are allowed.’ matternews.org/community/po...
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‘We were once a school that allowed voices on campus. Now, no voices are allowed.’ – Matter News
Compared with protests at neighboring colleges, the administrative crackdown on the 2024 pro-Palestine encampment at Ohio State stands out for its severity, causing reverberations that continue to thi...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Urge AG Bonta to Drop Charges Against Stanford 11! share.nwmd.social/s/5y9PTBQG
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Urge AG Bonta to Drop Charges Against Stanford 11
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A tent in a camp housing displaced Palestinians by al-Aqsa University in Khan Younis was hit by an Israeli strike on Sunday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCBh...
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Israeli strike hits tent in displacement camp by al-Aqsa University in Gaza
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Faculty at Vanderbilt and Washington University respond to “State of the Scholarship” report
In June 2026, the administrations at Vanderbilt University and Washington University at St. Louis in St. Louis released a “State of the Scholarship” report criticizing scholarship in the humanities…
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Israeli Settlers Set Fire to Café at University Entrance South of Nablus. The IDF did not intervene www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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Report: Israeli settlers set fire to café at university entrance south of Nablus
The village council head and restaurant owner told the Palestinian news agency WAFA that settlers broke into the restaurant, smashed its doors and stole money before setting fire to the building, whil...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How Israel’s financial strangulation of the West Bank is killing Palestinian public education mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-...
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How Israel’s financial strangulation of the West Bank is killing Palestinian public education
Israel is stoking a financial crisis in the West Bank by withholding funds from the PA. Among the sectors most affected is education, where teachers’ salaries have been cut, and classes have been shut...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Israeli forces attack Birzeit University in occupied Palestinian university, yet again. www.trtworld.com/article/18a6...
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TRT World - Israeli forces raid Palestinian university, assault security guard in occupied West Bank
The Israeli army carries out near-daily raids, often involving arrests, field interrogations and home searches in West Bank.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Congress: No Fiscal Year 2027 Funding for ICE and CBP . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: No Fiscal Year 2027 Funding for ICE and CBP
In June, Congress passed the S.2 reconciliation bill that provides ICE and Border Patrol with $70 billion in new funding for mass detention and deportation on top of last year’s unprecedented funds. N...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
theguardian.com
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Israel’s Academia Deepens Colonial Control After the Gaza War arabcenterdc.org/resource/isr...
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Israel’s Academia Deepens Colonial Control After the Gaza War
This paper investigates Israeli academia in the post-Gaza war era (2023–25) as a structural actor involved in the production of a security-military discourse that reframes colonial violence and gives ...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.newarab.com/news/paper-s...
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Massive paper shortages in Gaza push students to write on aid boxes
Israel has destroyed more than 284 schools and 63 university buildings across Gaza, disrupting access to education and hindering students' studies.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Teaching from tents to keep universities open in Gaza
With campuses destroyed and students displaced in Gaza, universities are finding new ways to deliver higher education. Through emergency online learni...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Since October 2023, we have seen again and again and again that nothing draws mainstream—and ostensibly liberal—institutions to engage in antidemocratic repression more swiftly and cynically than solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for equality and freedom." academeblog.org/2026/06/18/a...
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Academic Freedom and Democratic Governance for Learned Societies Too
BY DANIEL A. SEGAL We—meaning both faculty and the AAUP—know that when our teaching and research disturb powerful interests, we risk repression on our campuses from administrators, trustees, donors…
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There is no collaborating with Israeli educational institutions without also collaborating with the machinery of apartheid.
arab.news
Israel plans to build educational complex on site of UNRWA training college
LONDON: The Palestinian Authority denounced an Israeli plan to build an educational complex north of East Jerusalem on a site that has housed a vocational training college operated by the UN Relief an...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
www.publicsource.org/pitt-student...
publicsource.org
Two years after Gaza encampment, expelled Pitt student awaits his day in court
Former University of Pittsburgh student arrested during 2024 Gaza encampment is still set to go to trial Sept. 21.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Zionist campus groups keep insisting there is a Jewish consensus on Israel. Meanwhile, these kinds of articles where they freak out over young people not being Zionist proliferate.
sdjewishworld.com
Support for Israel dangerously low among college students – San Diego Jewish World
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Question Haunting the Vanderbilt/Wash U Report (opinion) share.google/bMbquuAccvWW...
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The Question Haunting the Vanderbilt/Wash U Report (opinion)
A new report criticizes a turn toward politicized scholarship in the humanities. But could it be that a more diverse academy is asking different questions?
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
insidehighered.com
Professor On Leave for Case Study That Mentions Palestinians
The provost claims that the professor’s actions “threaten immediate harm” to students or the School of the Art Institute of Chicago community.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.imeupolicyproject.org/release-sama...
imeupolicyproject.org
Call Your Senator: Bring American-Palestinian Student Sama Safi Home Now — IMEU Policy Project
Sama was abducted and now her life is in danger. The U.S. government must act now for her immediate and safe release.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Israeli army again attacks Palestinian university in occupied West Bank
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Israeli forces raid al-Quds university, question students
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yet another indication that the plurality of Jews on college campuses are anti-Zionist.
forward.com
Nearly half of young U.S. Jews want to replace Israel with binational state, poll find
The new data reflects generational shift and growing gulf between American and Israeli Jews
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Stefanie Fox @stefaniefox.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I was devastated to learn of yesterday's horrific shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego which killed 3 community members, a number that could have been higher if not for the bravery of Amin Abdullah, a mosque security guard who sacrificed his life to protect hundreds of children in the school.
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3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More
Two teenage gunmen in California fatally shot three people on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the city. Among the dead was a security guard — Amin Abdullah, a father o...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Antisemitism studies has become entangled in the dismantling of higher education as we know it,” said Brendan McGeever, co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. “And I don’t think, as a field, we’ve come to terms with what that means. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
chronicle.com
The Fight Over Antisemitism Studies
How money, fear, and October 7th forged a contentious new area of study.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How UCLA's Antisemitism Task Force lies with statistics: 1) Conduct an non-representative survey of Jews that recruits at Hillel and Bruins for Israel 2) Cite this non-scientific study as though it were representative. 3) Ignore actual polls showing young Jews are increasingly anti-Zionist.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Begin in the name of God. You have two hours. And do not forget that your names are the most important thing you will write today, so your rights are not lost in this chaos”
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha reports from Gaza where the ‘Education Everywhere’ initiative has transformed the seashore into a makeshift examination hall www.the-independent.com/news/world/m...
the-independent.com
Exams on the beach: Israel destroyed Gaza’s classrooms - now students sit on the sand
Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha reports from Gaza where the ‘Education Everywhere’ initiative has transformed the seashore into a makeshift examination hall
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A rare instance of a university defending the free speech rights of its pro-Palestine, anti-genocide students. Kudos!
clevelandjewishnews.com
UC Law SF says it 'vigorously' supports free speech rights, after student gov encourages students to buy keffiyehs to wear at graduation
StandWithUs stated that "some Jewish students at UC Law San Francisco already feel compelled to conceal their Jewish identity out of concern for their safety."
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Given that he was suspended immediately after the speech and told that it was because he exercised his right to First Amendment—I’m going to order that the university maintain his employment contract"
insidehighered.com
Texas State Must Reinstate Fired Prof, Court Rules
A federal court judge ruled Monday that Idris Robinson—a philosophy professor at Texas State University who was fired for an unaffiliated, out-of-state talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian confl...
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Working class British taxpayers paid for this compensation to enslavers, and so abolition became a moment of redistribution of wealth to the propertied class.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand Rutgers to Honor their Commitment to Diversity and Academic Freedom and Reinstate Rami Elghandour as Convocation Speaker. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
actionnetwork.org
Demand Rutgers to Honor their Commitment to Diversity and Academic Freedom and Reinstate Rami Elghandour as Convocation Speaker
Participating in this action is important because it directly challenges the selective censorship of human rights advocacy and the erosion of academic freedom at Rutgers University. By submitting this...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Surveillance is one of the most underreported trends in higher ed right now. Really deserves more attention. www.merip.org/2026/04/cens...
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Censorship and Surveillance at US Universities
The night before the start of the Fall 2025 semester, facilities workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill quietly boarded up a pro-Palestine mural. The mural, created by art students...
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Palestinian Students are fighting for their Right to Education www.juancole.com/2026/04/pale...
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Palestinian Students are fighting for their Right to Education
By Ashley Ver Beek (
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The resolution bars The New School and Baruch College Hillels from receiving any Student Government funds, co-sponsorship, or logistical support until such time as TNS Hillel disaffiliates from Hillel International and ends its promotion of programs that promote violations of international law.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
JVP congratulates The New School on the passage of a first of its kind resolution for a U.S.-based university that holds Hillel accountable for supporting violations of international humanitarian law.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A new talking point from an Israel lobby group in the US, aligned politicians, is extremely dangerous, and even more insidious than the positions of AIPAC. The US public wants an end to complicity in Israel’s genocide, apartheid and illegal military occupation against Palestinians — now.
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Jonah S. Rubin @jsrubin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The idea that the study of antisemitism requires new institutions that circumvent existing academic departments raises red flags for some" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US universities are seeing an influx of ‘antisemitism centers’. Some Jewish scholars are worried
Political pressures are resulting in a range of initiatives that experts say substitute expertise with ideology
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