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In April 2002, two British academics with a history of anti-Israel campaigning – Hillary and Steven Rose – launched a boycott of Israeli universities. They claimed to be responding to (false) allegations that the IDF had “massacred” hundreds of civilians in an operation against Palestinian suicide bombers. A few months before, the notorious NGO Forum of the UN 2001 Durban Conference called for boycotts leading to “the complete isolation of Israel as an apartheid state.”

Many years later, universities and academics are entrenched leaders in the political warfare known as BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Postmodernism and post-colonialism, in which history is merely a social construct, and the perceived victims of Western imperialism can do no wrong, combined with antisemitism, have created fertile ground for extreme anti-Israel demonization.

In April 2002, two British academics with a history of anti-Israel campaigning – Hillary and Steven Rose – launched a boycott of Israeli universities. They claimed to be responding to (false) allegations that the IDF had “massacred” hundreds of civilians in an operation against Palestinian suicide bombers. A few months before, the notorious NGO Forum of the UN 2001 Durban Conference called for boycotts leading to “the complete isolation of Israel as an apartheid state.”

Many years later, universities and academics are entrenched leaders in the political warfare known as BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Postmodernism and post-colonialism, in which history is merely a social construct, and the perceived victims of Western imperialism can do no wrong, combined with antisemitism, have created fertile ground for extreme anti-Israel demonization.