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A motion to consider divesting from Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever has been introduced in Los Angeles City Council, a response to the ice cream maker’s decision to end sales in Israeli settlements. Proposed by two Jewish council members on Dec.…
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New Jersey will pull its $182 million in Unilever stocks and bonds after a three-month preliminary investigation found that the company’s subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s, engaged in a boycott of “Israeli-controlled” territories against state law. State officials said that Unilever,…
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The state of Illinois is expected to divest its pension funds of investments in Unilever this coming Wednesday, JNS has learned. This looming decision in Illinois marks the latest domino to fall as the global conglomerate continues to come under…
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International sports federations must make sure all countries can compete in their tournaments, the International Olympic Committee emphasized, following the cancellation of the World Team Squash Championship in Malaysia due to Israel’s ban. “We urge all [international federations] to be extremely vigilant…
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The fall 2021 semester ends with pushback against the IHRA antisemitism definition growing on campus, the promotion of a BDS resolution by the Middle East studies Association, and evidence that university ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ personnel are strongly biased against…
read more(December 6, 2021) Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) condemns a recent vote by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to institute an academic boycott against Israeli universities as part of the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
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David Patterson holds the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Annual Scholars’ Conference on…
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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East deeply mourns the passing of Professor Jonathan Adelman on October 29, 2021. Adelman served as SPME’s President for four years. Professor Adelman spent the majority of his career at the University of Denver…
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Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Expert in anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech and memory laws.…
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A new ideology has emerged from the progressive Left in America. Often described as anti-racism or “wokeness,” this ideology proposes that structural racism is at the heart of America’s inequities, the only truly fundamental American characteristic and its most important one.…
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