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July 6, 2021

The Real Target of Academic Boycotts of Israel? Jewish Scholars

The latest attempt to use the Jewish state to harm Diaspora Jews.

While the boycotts of Israeli institutions of higher learning by scholarly organizations, university departments, and individual faculty members are ostensibly intended to “end the occupation” or avoid “complicity in apartheid,” they have so far proved to have only a minimal impact on Israeli academia, and the chances that they will in any way contribute to changes in the Jewish state’s policies are negligible. What then, asks Martin Kramer, do their proponents seek to accomplish?

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