Campuses

North American college campuses are increasingly playing host to targeted efforts to assault Israel’s legitimacy. And while most students support a negotiated two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, several groups regularly use campuses as a forum to promote policies that demonize and delegitimize the Jewish State. From anti-Israel conferences to annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” events, these occurrences that not only undermine Israel’s right to exist, but threaten any real chance for peace.

In response, IAN actively fosters campus-community partnerships, backed by a broad coalition of pro-Israel groups, in order to create dynamic counter programming that will lead the conversation about Israel on campus.

For further information, check out:

• IAN’s Campus Resource Guide: A must-have manual on building campus-community partnerships and increasing advocacy on campus.
• “The Playbook”: Developed by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Jewish United Fund’s (JUF) Israel Education Center, in partnership with IAN and the Israel on Campus Coalition, this document is a detailed, step-by-step guide intended to provide students with a resource for countering anti-Israel activity.

Recommended Reading:

• Combating Anti-Israel Divestment Resolutions on Campus (SF JCRC)
• iVest (AIPAC)
• BDS Cook book – How to Confront BDS (Stop BDS)
• How to Counter Divestment Campaigns (ADL)
• About BDS (CFCA)
• Deconstructing the “Israeli Apartheid” (C.A.M.E.R.A)
• Israeli Apartheid Week Response Kit (The David Project)
• A Burning Campus? Rethinking Israel Advocacy at America’s Universities and Colleges (The David Project)
• Chicago Students See Israel First-Hand, Skip BDS (The Algemeiner)
• Hillel Gets in Tents Peacefully (Israel Campus Beat)
• A Look Back 2011-2012 in Campus Israel Advocacy (Jewish Press)
• Israel Advocacy on Campus Gets New App (The Jewish Week)
• Hot Chocolate Leads to Cool Dialogue (The Jewish Press)