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Three events scheduled to take place in Germany in recent weeks and aimed at raising support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have been canceled in a sign of German efforts to stomp out what many…
read moreJTA — Anti-Israel protesters took the stage unannounced at Creating Change, an LGBTQ conference that was the site of a raucous anti-Israel protest in 2016. At the opening of this year’s conference, organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force, a…
read moreAnti-Israel protesters briefly interrupted a Eurovision song contest qualifying round in France Saturday, as Israeli singer Netta Barzilai stood on stage. A broadcast of the concert showed four or five protesters rush the stage, with at least one person holding a…
read moreExecutive Summary EAPPI, the World Council of Churches’ flagship project on Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict, has brought 1,800 volunteers to the West Bank to “witness life under occupation.” The World Council of Churches does not run similar activities in other…
read moreMain façade of Leinster House where the Irish Senate meets. (photo credit: COURTESY OF JEAN HOUSEN) In a watershed moment, the Irish Senate (Seanad Éireann) approved a bill to criminalize West Bank settlement activity on Wednesday, thereby taking a stand both against…
read moreEuropean Parliament building, Strasbourg, France. (photo credit: ARND WIEGMANN) The anti-Israel Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has called on the EU to cancel a program to bring together young Israelis and Palestinians in December under the…
read moreAt least six bus stops in London were defaced with posters declaring “Israel is a racist endeavor” early Thursday, in protest of the UK Labour Party’s adoption of an internationally recognized definition of anti-Semitism that characterizes that statement as anti-Semitic.…
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Look, I write for a Jewish publication. About Jews. All day. Every day. Which means it takes a lot to move me, especially when it comes to the never-ending torrent of bigoted drivel produced by Israel’s shrillest detractors. But this…
read moreDeir Yassin: Sof Hamitos [Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth]. By Eliezer Tauber. Modi’in, Is.: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir Publishing, 2017. 379 pp. 96 Israeli NS. Of all the canards associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict, one stands out: the events…
read morePro-Palestinian activists have a long history of disrupting Israel-connected events. They shout down speakers, block entrances and exits, and even physically attack speakers and participants. Up until now, these tactics have often been successful because law enforcement authorities have handled…
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