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My name is Samantha Strelzer, and I am the President of the Rollins Student Government Association at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. I recently went on a Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel, and since that time, I…
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The global movement to delegitimize the 74-year old State of Israel through boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) neither slumbers nor sleeps. Labels on food products have become a favoured instrument for such economic warfare. On Thursday, two lawyers filed a…
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The Stuttgart Administrative Court recently ruled that calls to single out the Jewish state for boycott, divestment and sanctions do not violate Germany’s laws against hate speech and are protected, sparking outrage from critics that the decision turns anti-Semitism into…
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Amnesty International’s general secretary has claimed that those who criticise its “apartheid Israel” report are “weaponising antisemitism”. Agnese Callamard made the inflammatory claim at a meeting in London on Tuesday billed as “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: How to dismantle this…
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“American Jews are not paying attention to what is happening in Israel when it comes to the public markets. They’re growing, there are strong returns, and plenty of good opportunities to invest in Israel,” said Brian Friedman, co-founder and Portfolio…
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The Deborah Project is suing multiple organizations connected to the Los Angeles Unified School District for trying to circumvent parents and the democratic process to push a radical, anti-Semitic curriculum in Los Angeles public schools. The organization’s legal director, Lori Lowenthal…
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Virtually all of college newspaper The Harvard Crimson’s coverage of Israel is negatively biased, according to an analysis by Campus Reform, a college news daily founded by the Leadership Institute to counter what it calls “liberal bias and abuse on the nation’s college campuses.” On…
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A Campus Reform analysis of the Harvard student publication The Harvard Crimson found that 92% of reported news articles relating to Israel from the past four years have a negative slant. Campus Reform examined 44 Crimson articles about Israel published between Apr. 16, 2018, and May 11,…
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Alphabet stockholders voted not to approve a stockholder proposal against Google’s work on Israel’s Nimbus Project, after Alphabet’s annual meeting of stockholders on June 1. Vote against BDS proposal There were 544,653,039 votes against and 55,301,799 for the proposal for Alphabet’s board…
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A United Nations briefing on antisemitism became politically charged on Wednesday when a Palestinian representative to the world body criticized the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism for conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Palestinian Deputy Permanent Representative…
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