Academic Engagement Network (AEN) – AEN, founded in response to the increasingly activist environment in university academia against Israel or Zionism, creates programs and engagement to support the expression of Jewish identity and robust discourse about Israel.
Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) – Secondary education is unfortunately becoming the new battleground for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ICS provides in-depth and standards-aligned lesson plans for K-12 schools about Judaism, Israel, and anti-semitism. ICS’s professional development has reached over 15,000 teachers in all 50 states.
Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative (MGSDII) – MGSDII is a nationally-recognized program that engages students, faculty, and other members of the campus community in quality education about modern Israel through visiting professors, classroom collaborations, student exchange, and more. MGSDII expands the marketplace of ideas on campus with a firm commitment to academic freedom and integrity.
A landmark study released in December by Brandeis University on US Jewish college students' perceptions of anti-semitism on campus states that efforts to understand and respond to anti-semitism on campus need to address the interaction between anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hostility. Expanding the study of modern Israel on campus in areas that directly relate to the conflict—history, political science, sociology and the like—as well as other areas such as urban planning and design, economics, film, environmental sustainability and climate change and many others has been cited to be one of the most effective tools to change the campus climate and quality of education in both the short and long term.
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