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Is It Time to Rethink the Relationship between Jews and Elite Universities?
(Algemeiner) Irit Tratt - Do we aid efforts to delegitimize Israel by sending Jewish children, along with hefty tuition payments, to schools that are promulgating an illiberal and anti-Zionist pedagogy? In the 2020-21 academic year, student governments voted to support 11 of the 17 BDS measures introduced. Universities with sizable Jewish populations openly curry favor with anti-Semitic speakers and associations. Journalist Liel Liebovitz makes the compelling case for sending "our best and brightest to college in Israel," where higher education costs a fraction of what it does in America. Three Israeli universities have been listed among the top 100 leading academic institutions - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and Haifa's Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.