Of all the madness on college campuses today, the one trend that may be the most venal of all is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. There is something deeply dark and insidious about this campaign to weaken Israel’s economy, intellectual life, and national will to the point where its survival is imperiled.

Ursinus College political science professor Jonathan Marks has closely followed the BDS movement and written about it extensively in numerous publications. In this article, he discusses one of BDS’s tentacles, a campus phenomenon know as Israel Apartheid Week. On a growing number of campuses, it’s an annual piece of street theater featuring “mock checkpoints” and “actors playing Israeli soldiers” who ”sexually harass an actress playing a Palestinian woman” (at UC-Berkeley). And of course, angry rants against the Middle East’s most advanced and freest nation.

“No nation other than Israel has a day, much less a week, devoted to destroying its reputation,” writes Marks.

At least not yet; if BDS is successful, every country whose successful existence offends the radical left could face the same sort of pressure.