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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On September 24, the Israeli High Court is scheduled to hear the appeal filed by Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding the Ministry of the Interior’s rejection of his request to renew his work visa. HRW – which…
read moreJüdisches Museum Berlin (Quelle: Dominic Simpson, CC BY 2.0) Das Jüdische Museum Berlin dürfe „kein Ort der Anti-Israel-Agitation, der Förderung von Antisemitismus und der Unterstützung von Israels Feinden“ sein. Mit dieser Forderung wenden sich 500 Wissenschaftler und Künstler aus dem…
read moreA university in Brazil was forced to cancel a lecture by a pro-Israeli advocacy organization StandWithUs after being bombarded by threats from pro-Palestinian groups. The University of Pernambuco, a public university in the city of Recife, opted to cancel the…
read moreFive years ago, I was sitting in my office trying to figure out options for a desperate Palestinian woman. Her family had found her and her boyfriend together in his apartment in Queens, and they were threatening both of them…
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An American anti-Zionist academic who lost a tenured university position over his graphically-antisemitic outbursts on Twitter surfaced at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa on Wednesday, where he delivered a fierce attack on the “corporate university” and…
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Last week, in a rare moment of bipartisan comity, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed a nonbinding resolution criticizing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The resolution’s text avoided anything potentially controversial and simply reaffirmed the conventional U.S. support for a two-state,…
read moreThe chief government figure opposing the bill is Foreign Minister Simon Coveney. Coveney argues that Ireland risks its standing in the European Union because the bill is legally unsound. He is correct. A Brussels-based EU trade official warned the Irish…
read moreMatthew Finkelstein, a Jewish attendee of the California Democratic Party’s state convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 31, 2019 (Photo/Dan Pine) The Resolutions Committee of the California Democratic Party has substantially rewritten six resolutions, deleting or softening…
read moreJan Keulen, director of The Rights Forum, a Dutch pro-Palestinian advocacy group that was founded by PM Dries van Agt, has made a disgraceful antisemitic statement about the mainstream representative body of the Dutch Jewish community. The Central Jewish Board had…
read moreVienna students fight antisemitism. (photo credit: TIMO MULLER) University student groups affiliated with major German political parties passed an anti-BDS resolution at the first German-Israel student conference on Sunday, held in Frankfurt. “An alliance across the political spectrum sending a…
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