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An alumnus of Harvard University stands near an anti-Israel encampment set up at the university, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 14, 2024. (Michael Casey/AP)
December 5, 2025, 8:18 am
‘A very bad year’: Despite Gaza truce, academic boycotts pile on, threatening Israel’s future
Laws promoting academic freedom have limited the fallout in the United States and Europe, but some schools have found creative ways to isolate Israel under the radar
By Zev Stub
Peter Beinart speaks at a rally to release Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who'd been detained by ICE after his involvement in pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activism, on March 20, 2025, at Foley Square in New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images via JTA)
November 26, 2025, 6:37 pm
Far-left US Jewish writer Beinart apologizes for speaking to Israelis at Tel Aviv University
BDS activists said Peter Beinart — also pro-boycott and against Jewish statehood — was ‘whitewashing genocide’; apology draws more flak; right-wing activist had pushed to cancel event
By Luke Tress, JTA and ToI Staff
Ben Gurion University President Danny Chamovitz speaks to the Kan public broadcaster on November 21, 2025. (Screen capture: Kan)
November 22, 2025, 4:20 pm
University head included on anti-Israel hit list blames government inaction over BDS
Danny Chamovitz adds that threats from abroad against Israeli researchers unsurprising given inhospitable attitude inside Israel: ‘We hope that now this will be a wake-up call’
By ToI Staff
Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian US protesters wave flags from the second level of the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall after they took over the building at the University of California, Irvine, May 15, 2024, in Irvine, California. (Leonard Ortiz/The Orange County Register via AP, File)
July 4, 2025, 5:41 am
University of California reiterates ban on boycotts of Israel by student governments
University head Michael Drake says financial decisions by campus bodies must be grounded in ‘sound business practices,’ which boycotts based on nationality violate
By AP
Israeli artist Benzi Brofman poses with his mural 'The Process' at the Contemporary Antisemitism London 2025 conference in the city’s JW3 Jewish cultural center, held from March 29 to April 1, 2025. (Lakruwan Rajapaksha
April 1, 2025, 8:13 pm
Global academics converge in London ‘safe space’ to dissect post-Oct. 7 antisemitism
Four-day conference this week sees scholars, artists and activists from India to Finland come together to share findings about widespread shunning amid Gaza war
By Lianne Kolirin
Students applaud next to a Palestinian flag, as the 13 students who have been barred from graduating due to protest activities are recognized by a student address speaker, during commencement in Harvard Yard, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 23, 2024. (AP/Ben Curtis)
March 31, 2025, 6:40 pm
Harvard puts research partnership with Palestinian university in West Bank on pause
Ex-head of US school and Rep. Elise Stefanik had called on it to sever ties with Birzeit, members of whose Hamas-dominated student council were arrested for terror plot last year
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A protest on a university campus in the UK in February 2024. (CST Campus Report)
February 25, 2025, 12:50 pm
Facing 66% rise in academic boycotts, Israeli universities gear up to fight back
Boycotts of Israeli institutions and researchers won’t stop anytime soon and Israel needs to adapt to the situation, report finds
By Zev Stub
The University of Leipzig (iStock)
December 5, 2024, 3:05 pm
German cancelation of Israeli professor’s talk highlights widening academic boycotts
Even as University of Leipzig presents decision to nix lecture by historian Benny Morris as security-related, some view it as capitulation to BDS in a relatively friendly country
By Zev Stub
Mike Lee of Sonoma State University. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 16, 2024, 4:46 am
In first for US, California public university agrees to academic boycott of Israel
Head of Sonoma State University says he’s on leave less than a day after announcing deal, which includes formation of SJP ‘advisory council’ to ensure school complies with terms
By Alexander Fulbright
Pro-Palestinian student protesters and activists attend a demonstration at the entrance of Lausanne University's (UNIL) Geopolis building, occupied by anti-Israel students, in Lausanne on May 4, 2024. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 11:44 pm
Irish, Swiss students join anti-Israel protest wave by staging campus encampments
Protesters at Trinity College Dublin and Lausanne University demand divestment from Jewish state over war against Hamas in Gaza
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Micro algae samples used in research on June 11, 2020, in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)
April 29, 2024, 2:25 pm
Israeli researchers see major drop in international cooperation since Oct. 7
After nearly seven months without a plan, the Innovation, Science and Technology Ministry says it will form a panel to deal with the boycott led by academics in European countries
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Joanna Chen (Heidi Levine)
March 12, 2024, 2:02 am
US literary magazine retracts Israeli writer’s coexistence essay amid mass resignations
Guernica staffers quit, calling piece by Joanna Chen that is highly critical of Israel ‘a hand-wringing apologia for Zionism’; critics lament anti-Israel extremism in literary world
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, February 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
February 29, 2024, 12:55 am
AAUP becomes largest US faculty group to join call for ceasefire
American Association of University Professors signs statement with hundreds of other labor unions calling for end to Israel-Hamas war; one member decries ‘obsessive’ focus on Israel
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Palestinian and left-wing Jewish groups stage a rally walking from Times Square to the United Nations Building in New York, September 15, 2011, calling to end all US aid to Israel and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. (AP Photo/David Karp/File)
July 25, 2023, 1:21 am
US anthropological association votes to boycott Israeli academia over ‘apartheid’
Decision, voted down 7 years ago, is adopted with 70% majority, but does not apply to individual Israeli academics
By Andrew Lapin
FILE: A student reads on campus at the State University of Campinas, Brazil on September 1, 2014. (Ricardo Sdag, Wikimedia Commons)
April 5, 2023, 1:57 am
Protesters force cancelation of Brazil university event promoting Israeli academia
Amid demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists, security at State University of Campinas escort out representatives from four of Israel’s top institutions of higher learning
By Canaan Lidor
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