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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: An original analysis of the global distribution of BDS Internet searches revealed disproportionate interest in countries such as New Zealand, Ireland, and Sweden, as well as in coastal US states with large academic institutions. In the former regions there…
read moreThe highlight of BDS activities in July was passage of a resolution in the House of Representatives opposing BDS. In a major rebuke to vocal BDS supporters and the BDS movement as a whole, the House demonstrated that the vast…
read moreA lot has been written about how the BDS movement is gaining traction as a mainstream and acceptable cause on American college campuses. In fact, the news is endless. Here’s a recent example: a professor at San Francisco State University is under…
read moreGriffin Hall of Williams College on Main Street in Williamstown, Mass. Credit: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia. Williams College has reached a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education in lieu of an investigation over the student government rejecting a new…
read moreFormer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Photo: Reuters / Debbie Hill / Pool. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called off a planned visit to Switzerland after he was warned that he could be arrested there for war crimes.…
read more(JTA) — A Michigan restaurateur said he will “step away” from opening a Dearborn branch of a burger chain founded in Israel following boycott threats. Sam Zahr will open two other Burgerim restaurants, in nearby Oak Park and Redford Township.…
read moreA pro-BDS demonstration. Photo: FOA / Facebook. Anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) promoters have long tried to stake out the moral high ground — depicting themselves as the champions of the oppressed, and positioning their movement as being on…
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 morePieter van Oordt, right, with his brother Roger at the Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, Feb. 19, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA) Christian Zionist importers of Israeli goods declined to comply with a government directive to apply special labeling for…
read morel-r: Hesse Interior Minister Peter Beuth, Modi’in Mayor Haim Bibas and Frankfurt Mayor Uwe Becker in Wiesbaden. Photo: Hesse Interior Ministry. The leading municipal association in the German state of Hesse — home to the city of Frankfurt — on…
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