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Scottish ministers have sought to block a U.K.-wide bill that seeks to impose fines for boycotting Israel. The legislators say the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, which would bar councils and universities from banning Israel, threatens their authority. However,…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university employee while demonstrating against a lecture speaker who heads the Brazilian chapter of a pro-Israel advocacy group. Andre Lajst, the director of StandWithUs Brazil, was speaking about ways that Israeli technologies could help develop the…
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This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. Two off-campus University of Michigan fraternity houses were vandalized with homophobic and antisemitic symbols. The Ann Arbor Police Department believes the event occurred sometime on the…
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The far-left Socialist Workers Party’s annual Marxism 2023 festival, at which Jeremy Corbyn and film director Ken Loach were amongst the guest speakers, was littered with calls for the “destruction” of the state of Israel, and demands for “100 per support…
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Israel is the most maligned country in the world on social media according to a new study, outpacing authoritarian regimes like Russia, North Korea and Iran. The Jewish state is mentioned approximately 10 times more than any other country in…
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The Republic of Panama has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, drawing praise from Jewish leaders and groups in the US. The Panamanian government held a ceremony commemorating the decision on Tuesday at its Ministry of Foreign…
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This brought the overall number of IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism adoptions and endorsements worldwide to 1,192, representing a broad array of international institutions and organizations, national and local governments, NGOs, universities, athletic clubs, and corporations that have embraced the definition…
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After decades of ignoring how foreign governments were using donations to universities, the Department of Education (DoE) finally launched an investigation in 2020 and published a report that found that some of the foreign sources of funding that are hostile…
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South African political party Economic Freedom Front (EFF) has called for Cape Town-based Jewish day school United Herzlia Schools (Herzlia High School) to be “deregistered” from the Department of Education’s list of schools. EFF Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL)…
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Protests are not an unusual sight at McGill University in Montreal. Student activism is something of a vaunted tradition at our school. But March’s Israeli Apartheid Week was not a peaceful civil rights protest. No one was hurt, as far as I know, but…
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