Will Sheldon Adelson's Push To Fund Anti-BDS Campaign Backfire on Campus?

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Will Sheldon Adelson's Push To Fund Anti-BDS Campaign Backfire on Campus?

Nathan Guttman | June 4, 2015

Through the power of their funding, Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson and several associates are seeking to transform the fight on campus against groups advocating boycott and sanctions against Israel — and, in the process, shift the center of gravity of those engaged in this battle significantly to the right.
The effort, which is being kicked off at a weekend gathering at Adelson’s Las Vegas Venetian hotel and casino, will offer a selected group of invited organizations a chance to present their work to a panel of mega-donors in a bid for funding.

The list of invitees and panel members, obtained by the Forward, reveals a roster of speakers and presenters representing a narrow political spectrum, ranging from several mainstream or nonideological organizations, such as Taglit-Birthright Israel and the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, to a majority of organizations aligned with right-wing and hawkish political views. Among the participants are Christians United for Israel, the Zionist Organization of America, the right-wing website Washington Free Beacon and the Clarion Project, which                                      has been accused by mainstream Jewish groups of Islamophobia . Officials from the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, StandWithUs, EMET and the Middle East Forum — all groups that hew to the right on the political spectrum — will also make presentations.
      
The list also contains some of the organized Jewish world’s major players, including Hillel, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federations of North America. But no organization heads represent any of these groups.