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Introduction A verbal assault by BDS supporters on a Jewish member of Congress prompted progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal to agree with the crowd that “Israel is a racist state.” This set off a cascading series of events culminating in a…
read moreIn a widely predicted move, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has now joined the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in adopting a boycott of Israeli universities. It represents a turning point in the discipline of anthropology and a milestone in…
read moreIntroduction The Biden Administration’s new US antisemitism strategy has helped a growing effort to undermine the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition, including from the United Nations and the US Congress. The strategy’s positive citation of the rival Nexus definition,…
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A major UK-based Jewish group will require tour operators to request permission before taking visitors to sites located over the Green Line or in areas claimed by Palestinians, including the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. The United…
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The BDS movement has been a total failure. It has not damaged Israel’s economy, it has not turned Israel into a pariah, it has not changed Israeli policy, and it has not destroyed the Jewish state. The BDS movement has tried to…
read moreAfter months of waiting, the Biden administration finally released its “National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.” A close look at the document gives the impression that the strategy as a whole is designed to appear to be “doing something” to combat antisemitism while not…
read moreIntroduction May saw the culmination of debate over the IHRA antisemitism definition. Left wing groups demanded its exclusion from the Biden administration’s national antisemitism policy while center and right groups demanded its inclusion. The debate, which has stretched from campuses…
read moreIntroduction April saw the BDS movement launch multiple assaults on Israel and its supporters, via ‘human rights’ organizations and the United Nations, students and faculty on campus, and DEI bureaucracies. These many fronts are designed to manufacture a narrative and…
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As Israel Apartheid Week sweeps across American college campuses, BDS activists have a new weapon in their media arsenal. Boycott, a documentary film produced by Julia Bacha of Just Vision, follows two BDS activists and a newspaper editor, as they and their attorneys from the…
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Barcelona’s mayor is being sued over her decision in February to sever the Spanish city’s official relations with Israel, including its twinning agreement with Tel Aviv. The Lawfare Project announced on Tuesday the filing of the lawsuit against the Catalan capital’s leftist…
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