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Mainstreaming antisemitism through BDS and antizionism progressed in June as academics defended attacking Israel. Pushing back against anti-Israel bias has serious costs but the impunity of higher education has been breached by legal counteractions. The defenses of BDS and racialized…
read moreAs The Daily Wire reported last week, the national parliament of Germany recently decided to formally condemn the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” movement (BDS) against the state of Israel as anti-Semitic — thus taking a stronger stance against anti-Semitism in the year…
read morePro-Palestine activists have been conducting a ‘campaign of intimidation’ against Jewish shops that sell products from Israel for years The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which is supported by Corbyn, has forced two Jewish businesses to close and activists have threatened others…
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 moreLUXEMBOURG — A senior adviser to the EU’s top court says today it was his legal advice that products from territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war must be clearly labeled as such to avoid misleading consumers.…
read moreStrategic Affairs Minister briefs the media on February 3 about the terror connections with BDS organizations. (photo credit: MINISTRY OF STRATEGIC AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY) Thirty financial accounts associated with BDS-promoting nonprofits with ties to terrorism or terror operatives have…
read moreEurovision 2019 in Israel / Arutz Sheva Ireland’s contestant in the Eurovision song contest said she received terrifying threats and abusive messages after performing in Israel. Sarah McTernan, 25, told the Irish Sun over the weekend that “I got hundreds of threats . . . It…
read moreA pro-BDS demonstration. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. For academics who support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Cary Nelson’s recently published book — Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State — is very bad news. The book completely discredits…
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…
read moreThe UK’s Palestinian Solidarity Campaign has sunk to a new low today after its director said he was “proud” to speak at the D-Day protest in Portsmouth. Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of the British Armed Forces, described Ben Jamal…
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