The Ithacan

Guest speakers debate academic boycott

By Stephen Adams, Assistant Multimedia Editor • February 26, 2014

The Israeli education boycott debate at Ithaca College came to a head on Jan. 25 when two groups hosted guest speakers with opposite views only one hour apart and across the hall from each other.

Professor files IRS complaint against pro-boycott group

By Sabrina Knight, News Editor • February 26, 2014

William Jacobson, clinical professor and director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell University, has filed an IRS whistleblower complaint against the American Studies Association.

Even in China, it’s Social Media activism, not slacktivism…

By Jeremy Li • February 23, 2014

When we talk about activism on social media, we immediately think about the students uprising during the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street. We can easily think of democratically/politically motivated online...

Forget about the Olympics, people are suffering…

By Jeremy Li • February 11, 2014

As part of the millennial generation, do you care more about the sports and the medal or people placed in extreme adversity in exchange for the success of this grand occasion? When a grand sporting occasion...

Point/counterpoint: Opposition to boycott spurs debate

By Samantha Weil • February 5, 2014

Israel's growth transcends boycott and disagreement Drip Irrigation, the ReWalk and the PillCam are all inventions from Israel that are improving people’s lives on a daily basis. With the amount...

President Rochon opposes Israeli boycott

By Kayla Dwyer, Assistant News Editor • January 29, 2014

Tom Rochon has announced his opposition to the American Studies Association’s endorsement of an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions in a statement he released via Intercom on Jan. 9.

Commentary: Consumers unwittingly fuel Israeli occupation

By Luna Olavarria Gallegos • October 2, 2013

How often do you support military intervention in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? Whether you are aware of it or not, we are bombarded by products supporting Israel’s military occupation and its building...