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Academics from the elite Modern Language Association (MLA) voted by a significant margin on Wednesday to reject a boycott of Israeli universities. MLA members voted 1,954 to 885 to “refrain from endorsing the boycott” of Israeli academic institutions advocated by…
read moreAcademics from the elite organization Modern Language Association (MLA) voted on Wednesday by a significant margin to reject a boycott of Israeli universities. MLA members voted 1,954 to 885 to “refrain from endorsing the boycott” of Israeli academic institutions advocated…
read moreMembers of Berlin’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) passed a resolution on Saturday in support of Israel, condemning the boycott,divestment,sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state. The SPD’s 17,500 member organization declared at their convention that “they oppose the antisemitic BDS…
read moreThe giant Dallas-based bank Comerica announced on Friday that it will close a bank account held by an anti-Israel organization that promotes boycotting the Jewish state. “Comerica Bank has taken steps to close the account. The account closing, the result…
read moreIn late December, with just weeks left in his administration, former U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a shot in the arm to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, or BDS. Obama instructed the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha…
read moreThe Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in the city of Halle sparked international criticism because the pro-Hezbollah and allegedly antisemitic activist Norman Finkelstein is slated to hold talks on academia and Gaza on Monday and later in January. “Finkelstein…
read moreThe Bank für Sozialwirtschaftof (Bank for Social Economy) has closed the account of a German group that promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state. The Cologne-based bank notified the anti-Israel NGO Jewish Voice for a Just…
read moreA German public school teacher and leading BDS activist praised a Facebook photo of a Palestinian using a slingshot to apparently hurl stones at Israelis, prompting calls on Friday and Saturday for his immediate removal from the classroom in the…
read moreBERLIN – Students at one of the world’s oldest universities – Leipzig University in the German state of Saxony – passed a resolution this month opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement because it is anti-Semitic. According to the resolution,…
read moreBERLIN — The German university HAWK announced on Friday that it will stop teaching a seminar on Palestinian youths, in which Israel was accused of harvesting the organs of Palestinians and termed an apartheid state. ”After days of protests, the…
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