Colleges and universities in the United States are under increasing pressure to boycott Israel, a move that is likely illegal under the U.S. Anti-Boycott Act of 2018.

It is reported that the effort is fostered and even financed by foreign countries, their affiliates and proxies, such as Iran, Qatar, Hamas, Samidoun (recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department) and the BDS movement. This group includes the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, a Palestinian Authority, Ramallah-based organization and arm of the terrorist-linked BDS National Committee.

The boycott movement against Israel is another obnoxious chapter in the sordid history of economic, social and political warfare against the Jews. BDS is just the latest rhetorical term used to obfuscate its nefarious character and sanitize it as some sort of social-awareness program. It’s a malevolent and antisemitic scheme directed at delegitimizing Israel and undermining it as a haven and homeland for Jews.