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Boycotts: The Case for Raising Our Voices

JL;DR SUMMARY The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel has largely failed economically, with foreign investment in Israel significantly increasing. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BoycottAcademic FreedomAcademiaHigher EducationAnti Israel BiasBdsAmerican Association Of University ProfessorsScholarly ExchangeAssociation Of American Universities

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Jerusalem, Israel
"As Hebrew Universitys Netta Barak-Corren, chairwoman of its Initiative Against Academic Boycott, has observed, academia is where the foundations of BDS were first laid, where the slanderous retelling of the social, economic, political, and religious history of the modern state of Israel was given intellectual legitimacy."
Southern District, Israel
"Some recent examples: From 2005 until October 2023, Israel had ceased all military and civilian presence in Gaza."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Most telling of all, perhaps, is that the Dreyfus Affair can be taught at Harvard these days without mentioning antisemitism or even that Dreyfus was Jewish, as author Dara Horn recently reported in the Wall Street Journal."

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