AMCHA Initiative

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The AMCHA Initiative, founded in 2011, describes itself as 'dedicated to investigating, documenting, educating about, and combating antisemitism at institutions of higher education in America'.[1]. It includes 'demonizing Israel', 'delegitimizing Israel', 'applying double standards to Israel' and 'promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions' (BDS) against Israel as examples of anti-Semitism[2]

Activities

In September 2014, the group published a list of over 200 academics working in North American universities that it called 'anti-Israel Middle East Studies professors'.[3]

Even before this list was published, the group had been accused of waging 'a McCarthyist repression campaign to silence discussion of Palestinian rights in campus' by Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, a professor of ethnic studies at San Francisco State University.[4]

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