Columbia’s BDS Motion Misses the Point About Dialogue
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Last week, students at Columbia University passed a resolution calling for boycotting and divesting from Israel. Their motion, sponsored by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, asserts that any commercial or intellectual connections to Israel “fall under the UN International Convention’ for both the suppression and punishment of the ‘Crime of Apartheid.’” For me, this news […]
Colombia Unbecoming: Hate Week Comes to Latin America
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What is known in English as Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) has made it to Colombia in the form of the Semana contra el Apartheid Israelí. The “week” consisted of a 4 hour session on April, Friday 22, at a public university in Bogotá, featuring Palestinian, South African, Brazilian and Colombian speakers, and a 4 hour […]
Ambassador Ephraim Halevy- “Sovereignties and Players Local and International – Old and New – Struggling to Reshape a Crumbling Middle East Landscape. Quo Vadis?”
https://isgap.org/media/2014/04/ambassador-ephraim-halevy-sovereignties-and-players-local-and-international-old-and-new-struggling-to-reshape-a-crumbling-middle-east-landscape-quo-vadis/
Title: “Sovereignties and Players Local and International – Old and New – Struggling to Reshape a Crumbling Middle East Landscape. Quo Vadis?” Speaker: Ambassador Ephraim Halevy, Head of the Center for Strategic Policy Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Public Policy (2003-2011); Former Director of Mossad, Israel Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 Location: Columbia […]
Dr. Matthias Kuentzel – “Obama’s New Iran Policy and the Temptation of Appeasement”
https://isgap.org/media/2014/03/dr-matthias-kuentzel-obamas-new-iran-policy-and-the-temptation-of-appeasement/
Title: “Obama’s New Iran Policy and the Temptation of Appeasement” Speaker: Dr. Matthias Kuentzel, Hamburg Technical College; Research Associate, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 Location: Columbia University, Uris Hall Rm. 141, as part of the ISGAP Seminar Series, “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”