Anti-Israel Activities on Campus: The Case of Germany’s Leipzig University
24.06.26 Editorial Note Israel Academia Monitor often reports on anti-Israel activities at Western universities, including the U.S, the UK, Australia, and others. This time we are focusing on Germany’s Leipzig University. Germany holds a unique historical context, in particular Germany’s political and academic institutions, which operate within a framework influenced by responsibility for the Holocaust. As…
Haim Bresheeth-Zabner Awarded a Medal by Tehran and Promotes the Second Anti-Zionist Congress
17.06.26 Editorial Note Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) has reported extensively on Prof. Haim Bresheerh-Zabner, a filmmaker, photographer, and film studies scholar at SOAS University of London. He is a former activist in Matzpen, an Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist organization. Matzpen was a small but influential Israeli radical left organization founded in 1962. It rejected mainstream…
The Battle at the University of Sydney Over Protest Against Israeli Universities
10.06.26 Editorial Note Anti-Israel activism and BDS calls in Australia are not new. In August 2024, Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) reported on “BDS Infiltrating Australian Campuses.” On March 26, 2026, an anti-Israel protest took place at the University of Sydney. One of the posters used by activists featured Handala, a cartoon figure depicted as a barefoot child with…
The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and Palestinianism
03.06.26 Editorial Note Recently, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) published a call for papers. The invitation reads, “We seek submissions that contribute to the field of Critical Zionism Studies, support the movement for Palestinian liberation, and advance the anti-Zionist struggle. As such, we seek manuscripts that demonstrate logical and consistent argumentation,…
‘BaShaar – Academic Community for Israeli Society’ as a Political Organization
27.05.26 Editorial Note On August 4, 2023, just two months before the Hamas attack against Israel, a petition by Academics for Peace, titled “The Elephant in the Room,” was circulated. The petition attracted more than 3000 signatures, including many Israeli academics. The petition found a “direct link between Israel’s recent attack on the judiciary and its…
Jewish Academic Group Deliberately Violates the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
21.05.26 Editorial Note Earlier this week, the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization, posted a clip on its Facebook Page showing Dr. Marianne Hirsch, a Holocaust Studies scholar, speaking against the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. The JVP post stated that “This is an IHRA violation.” Hirsch “cannot do her research under the…
The University of Washington Confronts Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Climate
13.05.26 Editorial Note Recently, the University of Washington (UW) has been at the center of several anti-Israel and antisemitic events. First, the group Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return posted on social media the event to raise money for the “Lebanese resistance” movement. The group, known as SUPER UW, organized the occupation of a University…
Political Activism of the American Association of University Professors
07.05.26 Editorial Note Last week, the New York Times (NYT) published an article about the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an organization that has advocated for faculty members’ rights since 1915. The article discusses how the AAUP has become one of Trump’s administration’s “main antagonists,” when, during his time in office, the AAUP has filed a dozen lawsuits,…
The Fallacies of Omer Bartov – PART TWO
29.04.26 Editorial Note Israel Academia Monitor (IAM) reported last week on an interview with Prof. Omer Bartov about his newly published book titled Israel: What Went Wrong? Meanwhile, Haaretz also published an interview, and The Guardian did so as well. Bartov’s key points: – Zionism Must Go: Bartov contends that Zionism has become “militaristic, expansionist, and racist” and must be replaced to prevent Israel…
The Fallacies of Omer Bartov
23.04.26 Editorial Note PART ONE Israel Academia Monitor has occasionally highlighted Israeli academics who have lent support to claims equating Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians—including Hamas in Gaza—with Nazi Germany’s genocide of the Jews. Among the most prominent is Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Last week, David Remnick, the longtime editor…
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