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“As a matter of principle, Brandeis University opposes academic boycotts of universities in any country. In light of this vote and the boycott, Brandeis dissociates from MESA and reaffirms our support for academic freedom.”
United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk released a report on March 24 accusing Israel of being an apartheid state.
Jewish groups issued various statements mourning the passing of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright on March 23.
“Our members have cast a clear vote to answer the call for solidarity from Palestinian scholars and students experiencing violations of their right to education and other human rights,” MESA President Eve Troutt Powell said in a statement.
The Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post reported that the terrorist, identified as 34-year-old Bedouin-Israeli Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, fatally stabbed a 40-year-old Israeli woman at a gas station, ran over a man with a bicycle who subsequently died, and proceeded to stab multiple people at the BIG Beer Sheva Shopping Mall.
The study, titled “Faculty Academic Boycotters: Ground Zero for Campus Antisemitism,” found that United States college campuses that had at least five faculty members who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement “were 3.6 times more likely to have acts targeting Jewish and pro-Israel students for harm” and “4.5 times more likely to have incidents involving student BDS promotion.”
The joint statement called the IRGC “a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of people, including Americans.” “The Iranian Revolutionary Guards are Hezbollah in Lebanon, they are Islamic Jihad in Gaza, they are the Houthis in Yemen, they are the militias in Iraq. The IRGC are responsible for attacks on American civilians and American forces throughout the Middle East, including in the past year.
Rosatom, the chief state-run nuclear energy company in Russia, will reportedly rake in billions of dollars under a newly forged Iran nuclear deal.
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