The PLO Urges a Boycott of Hebrew University Conference on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
18.02.26 Editorial Note The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the Hebrew University promotes high-quality research in the spirit of its namesake, Jacob Robinson, the Jewish jurist of Lithuanian origin (1889-1977). As the About Us page states, “His life and work guide the Institute’s academic activities and define its topics.”…
Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and “Zionophobia”: Media Narratives and the Question of Qatari Influence
11.02.26 Editorial Note On January 26-27, the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism held the Second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, titled “Generation of Truth.” The global event in Jerusalem addressed contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and the challenges posed by evolving political and social dynamics in Europe and North America. Participants included academics,…
‘Criminologists for Palestine’ Mounts Pressure on the European Society of Criminology to Boycott Israel
04.02.25 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,…
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