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Andrea Muehlebach
Andrea Muehlebach has spread hatred of Israel and engaged in anti-Israel activism.
Muehlebach is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
As of March 2025, Muehlebach was listed as a professor of anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen (UB) since 2021. UB is located in Bremen, Germany.
Muehlebach received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago (UChicago) in 2007.
As of March 2025, Muehlebach’s Facebook page said that she was located in Berlin, Germany.
In July 2016, Muehlebach signed a U of T faculty letter titled: “Open letter regarding U of T partnerships” opposing a partnership between U of T and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew U).
The open letter suggested that U of T’s partnership with Hebrew U would cause the university to “passively reproduce…social violence and inequality.”
In October 2014, Muehlebach signed a statement calling for an academic boycott of Israel, pledging “not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.”
The statement called on Israel to recognize a Palestinian “right of return.”
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel. International law mandates no absolute right of return and UN Resolution 194, which defined principles for “refugees wishing to return to their homes,” was unanimously rejected by Arab nations following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
In July 2014, during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE), Muehlebach signed a letter condemning the Canadian government for focusing “exclusively on denouncing Hamas’s rocket strikes…and uncritically proclaiming Israel’s right to self-defence.”
Hamas fired over 4,564 missiles and rockets at Israeli population centers during Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in July 2014.
In March 2016, Muehlebach signed a petition “for the University of Toronto to divest its holdings in companies directly profiting from the ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territories.”
In October 2014, Muehlebach also signed a statement in support of a resolution calling on the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
In June 2016, the AAA announced that the resolution to boycott Israeli universities was defeated but that there were “other actions planned.”
During the 2017 AAA elections, Muehlebach was endorsed as a candidate by the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions as a result of her support for BDS.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by pro-terror activist Omar Barghouti in 2005 to turn “Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.” Barghouti has also called for Israel's destruction and the BDS movement demands would result in that same goal.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been infiltrating university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments propose resolutions to boycott or divestment from Israel or Israeli-affiliated entities. BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents and pro-terror activism on campus.
