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3 Apr, 2016

Pro-Israel group targets Jewish professor over Palestine activism | The Electronic Intifada

Legislators around the United States are pushing forward bills, resolutions and blacklists to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. This month, lawmakers in New York and Illinois advanced the countrywide anti-BDS effort. New York senators voted to cut $485 million in state funding to City University of New York (CUNY), shifting the cost burden to the city. Meanwhile, a CUNY professor who advises Students for Justice in Palestine was hauled before an investigative panel. Republican State Senator Ken LaValle, who chairs the chamber’s committee on higher education, said the funding cut was meant to “send a message” to the university that it had not done enough to fight anti-Semitism on its campuses.

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