Universities boycott israel

US House passes bill stripping federal funds from universities that boycott Israel

“This legislation has true teeth and completely severs any possible taxpayer support of these concrete campaigns of antisemitism in the form of BDS and academic boycotts of Israel,” Foxx added.  

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest outside the Consulate General of Israel to condemn Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Los Angeles, California, US, October 2, 2025.
Hundreds of anti-Zionist stickers found at the University of Coimbra campus.

Portuguese gov't demands investigation for antisemitic threats against Israeli doctoral student

United States Capitol building in Washington, DC.

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

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'


Brown U. committee: Divest from Israeli companies profiting from occupation

A Brown advisory committee has issued a formal recommendation that the Ivy League university divest from “any company that profits from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.”

Brown University's John Carter Brown library

University of Illinois student government president vetoes BDS resolution

The 20-9 vote in favor of the resolution early Thursday morning followed a five-hour meeting of the student government on the Urbana-Champaign campus. There were seven abstentions.

Hallene Gateway at the University of Illinois

Progressive institutions remain silent on antisemitism

Academic and political intolerance is just as much a form of abuse and intimidation as the physical violence exercised by bigoted brutes.

A man wearing a Swastika [Illustrative]

Jewish student should resign if traveling to Israel, says student gov't

Students’ Society of McGill University calls on board member to resign if she participates in free Hillel trip

MCGILL UNIVERSITY campus in Montreal

Columbia Student Council approves holding Israel divestment referendum

It is the third time that the student council has voted on whether to hold such a referendum, in initiatives spearheaded by the camps organization Columbia University Apartheid Divest

Students at Columbia University hold a "die-in" demonstration

Africa’s top university nixes motion to boycott Israel

SAJBD: We are also encouraged that UCT academics have taken a stance against this BDS inspired resolution

Protesters call for the severing of diplomatic ties with Israel during a march in Cape Town, South Africa, May 15, 2018

Oberlin students place memorial to Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists

Memorial includes commemoration of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Baha Abu al-Atta, a senior commander who was assassinated by the IDF.

Bosworth Hall at Oberlin College

Columbia U. students to vote on BDS ballot initiative on Sunday

The initiative is being presented by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).

Students at Columbia University hold a "die-in" demonstration

Israeli organization condemns U. of Toronto Graduate Union

Committee of University Heads of Israel (VERA) says Graduate Student Union at the University of Toronto claim that Kosher food is “pro-Israel” is height of antisemitism.

Graduate Students' Union at the University of Toronto

'Israel Denial' lays bare academic attempts to delegitimize Israel

Postmodernism and post-colonialism, combined with antisemitism, have created fertile ground for extreme anti-Israel demonization on campus.

Israeli officials exit the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, 2001, protesting attempts to single out Israel as a racist state.