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Upcoming Anti-Israel Conference of The American Studies Association

07.10.26 Editorial Note The American Studies Association (ASA) will hold its annual meeting on October 22-25, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. To recall, the ASA officially endorsed the academic boycott of Israeli educational institutions in December 2013. As a result, over 200 university administrators, major educational groups like the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and numerous members of…

Report by ACLU and Amnesty Indifferent to Campus Antisemitism

30.09.26 Editorial Note Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Amnesty International USA released a new report titled “Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus.” The report claims to be “analyzing how higher education institutions, the federal government, and policymakers censored and suppressed speech in support of Palestinian rights and…

Adalah Accuses Israeli Academia of Apartheid 

23.09.26 Editorial Note The Council for Higher Education in Israel published data on students enrolled in higher education institutions. Arab students amount to 63,140 in the upcoming academic year. Earlier this month, Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, published a harsh report accusing Israeli higher education institutions of apartheid, titled “Apartheid in Israeli Academia: Palestinian Students…

Conference on Twenty-Five Years of the War on Terror Hosted by George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs

16.09.26 Editorial Note George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington, DC, will host an event on 25 Years of the War on Terror, on September 17–18, 2026. It will “examine lessons from the War on Terror, explore what resistance to this framework of state violence has looked like,” and shall ask “how we…

Bill to Defund Universities that Boycott Israel

09.09.26 Editorial Note On September 3, 2026, the US House of Representatives approved a bill penalizing universities that align with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.  The bill, the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act of 2026, calls for the Department of Education to publicly list all the universities that do not abide by the Act’s…

The European Society of Criminology Succumbed to Boycotting Ariel University

02.09.26 Editorial Note The Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) brings together criminologists and professionals in related fields. It provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers globally to discuss and share their work on various aspects of criminology, criminal justice, and related social sciences. In 2026, the annual Eurocrim Conference, under the theme “Frontiers of Criminology,”…

New Audits Provide Data on Jewish and Israeli Anti-Israel Academics

26.08.26 Editorial Note The Olam, launched in May 2026 by Ronn Torossian, a veteran digital entrepreneur, is a new publication focused on Israel, Jewish affairs, and the global Jewish economic community. It published two new studies recently. The first is on US university faculty in Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Hebrew language, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The…

Canada’s Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences

19.08.26 Editorial Note Recently, the Government of Canada published a report titled “Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE)” by the Department of Canadian Heritage. Deborah Lyons, the former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, requested the report.  The Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute conducted and produced the report.  The survey included approximately…

Mixing anti-Israel Activism and Scholarship: The Socialism Conference in Chicago

12.08.26 Editorial Note The Socialism 2026 Conference, to be hosted by Haymarket Books from September 4, 2026 to September 7, 2026, in Chicago, has many anti-Israel panels, including academic-related issues: In the workshop “From Prairie to Poppy: How Struggles for Land, War, and Farming Are Connected from Chicago to Palestine,” participants will learn “how the struggles for food…

The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK is Hijacked by Anti-Israel Activism

05.08.26 Editorial Note The Association for Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA) held its annual gathering on May 29–31, 2026, at the University of Edinburgh.  The ASA was founded in 1946 to “promote the study and teaching of anthropology and to uphold the interests and status of the discipline, primarily in the UK, but also extending to the Commonwealth, where…

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