‘Criminologists for Palestine’ Mounts Pressure on the European Society of Criminology to Boycott Israel
04.01.25 Editorial Note Last September, Israel Academia Monitor reported on the European Society of Criminology (ESC) conference, under the title “The European Society of Criminology Conference in Athens Targeted by BDS,” which took place in Greece on September 3-6, 2025. Our post noted that the topics in the conference were diverse, including panels on crimes committed during times of…
Britain: Anti-Zionist Jews Mark Holocaust Memorial Day by Demanding to de-Nazify Israel
28.01.26 Editorial Note The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) is a charity established and funded by the British Government to promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). According to its website, it commemorates the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered during the Holocaust. The Holocaust has always been, and will always remain, central to Holocaust Memorial…
Amendments to Higher Education
21.01.26 Editorial Note Knesset Member Avichai Boaron recently initiated a bill titled “The Council for Higher Education Bill (Amendment – Strengthening Transparency and Public Oversight of the Council for Higher Education), 2025.” Boaron, a lawyer and a member of the Likud Party, placed the proposed legislation on the Knesset table for preliminary discussion. The bill is…
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: Political Activism and the Boundaries of Academic Scholarship
15.01.26 Editorial Note The American Jewish Congress, a long-established American Jewish organization founded over a century ago to advance Jewish values, rights, and interests, recently published a petition calling on Princeton University to cancel a seminar taught by former Hebrew University Law Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) has documented Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s academic and public activities on numerous occasions over the past two decades. The petition, titled “Sign the Letter to Princeton…
Haim Yacobi Continues to Demonize Israel
07.01.26 Editorial Note Next week, on January 13, 2026, the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL will host a conference titled “Gaza: The Politics of Future in the Aftermath of Genocide.” The conference aims to “explore the aftermath of the destruction due to Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians and Palestinian life in Gaza.”…
Anti-Israel Academics for Peace
31.12.25 Editorial Note In August 2023, two months before the Hamas attack against Israel, Academics for Peace, a U.S.-based network of scholars concerned with the Israel–Palestinian conflict, published a petition titled “The Elephant in the Room.” IAM published a post on this, titled “Anti-Israel Israeli Academics Blame Israel for Palestinian Failures.” Academics for Peace positions itself as an academic…
The American Geophysical Union Provides a Platform to Anti-Israel Themes
24.12.25 Editorial Note The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a scientific society that connects more than half a million scientists, advocates, and professionals in Earth and Space sciences worldwide. AGU was established in 1919 by the National Research Council. AGU publishes the journal EOS, a science news magazine. Kimberly M. S. Cartier, EOS staff writer, has recently published an article under the title…
Under the Radar: The Iranian Academic Network in the United States and Its Influence
17.12.25 By Ofira Seliktar, Professor Emerita, Gratz College In recent decades, Qatar—and before it, Saudi Arabia—have emerged as two of the most significant foreign financiers of American universities, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars into academic programs, research centers, endowed chairs, and cultural initiatives. While universities present these funds as benign contributions to global education,…
Finland as a Battleground for BDS
10.12.25 Editorial Note For a number of years now, Finland has promoted various anti-Israel BDS organizations. Just to name a few – BDS Finland, ICAHD Finland, the Finish Palestine Network, Boykotoi apardheidia, Student for Palestine Finland, Finland Against Apartheid, etc. Recently, the Tampere University Academics Association (TATTE), the trade union for academic employees, published a statement on its website titled “Statement on ending…
UCL Professor Fabricates History to Serve Palestinian and Arab League Interests
03.12.25 Editorial Note Last week, the University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws hosted a lecture by Professor Ralph Wilde, titled: “As Bad as it Gets for the Palestinian People in International Law: Aggression, genocide, apartheid and other racism, denial of self-determination, crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture perpetrated against the Palestinian people through…
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