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A Massachusetts state senator is under fire for comments he made legitimizing Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, as well as a call to replace Israel with a binational state. In a statement posted on his website on May 28, State Sen. Jamie…
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The Chilean Congress has drafted a bill to boycott goods, services and products from Israeli settlements, with Jewish Chileans expressing outrage at the latest anti-Israel move by Chilean parliamentarians. The bill was drafted by the Chile-Palestine Inter-Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of…
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The local authority in Lancaster has voted to support BDS and urge Lancashire County Council’s pension fund to divest £8 million from companies tied to West Bank settlements. At a Lancaster City Council meeting held on Wednesday night, councillors passed…
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Canada’s largest labor union adopted “behind closed doors” a motion last week that supports a boycott of Israel after the resolution initially failed to garner support among members. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) held its annual convention virtually this year,…
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They’re in hot H2O. Scientific American found itself taking heat this month after the scholarly, 176-year-old magazine published an opinion piece titled “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians.” The screechy diatribe accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war…
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On June 5, 2021 the Muslim Students’ Association at Western University in London, ON issued the following statement: WESTERN MSA OFFICIAL STATEMENT: FREE PALESTINE (3) For Western University to cut off any professional or financial ties to any individuals or companies or…
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A grassroots campaign is on the way to drop the IHRA Definition of anti-Semitism, which includes references to Israel in an anti-Semitic context, at the coming Labour party’s annual party conference in Brighton, Sept. 25-29, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday…
read moreThe summer of 2020 will forever be remembered as the time that wokeness in America went fully mainstream—when white liberals made White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo a millionaire, the CEO of Twitter gave How to Be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi $10 million, Nike…
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A Canadian federal appeals court reversed a lower court’s decision that barred “Product of Israel” labels for wines produced in Judea and Samaria. In July of 2020, the Federal Court of Canada had ruled that it was “false, misleading or deceptive” for…
read moreImagine you’ve just been accepted to college. You open your welcome packet. It contains the bestseller all first-year students are expected to read: Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. You flip to a random page and read, “Only whites can be racist.”…
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