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Despite a public campaign by anti-Israel activists to end an American exchange program between with Israel police, two major police associations in Georgia have issued statements reaffirming their support for the program, according to a report by Miriam Elman at Legal Insurrection. The…
read moreThe calendar year closed with the BDS movement intensifying splits on campus, between faculty and administration and within student bodies. With support for BDS becoming equated with ‘free speech’ the contradictions within higher education have become apparent. In 2018 these…
read moreHernán López, Executive Director of CCHIL (Left) and Gabriel Colodro, President of CCHIL (right). (photo credit: CCHIL) It is illegal for municipalities to boycott Israel, the Chilean National Comptroller determined this week. The comptroller’s decision followed complaints from Shai Agosin…
read moreThe Jerusalem Post’s disclosure of a bank account in Germany held by an entity that supports the BDS movement prompted Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan to urge the Germany-based Bank for Social Economy this week to pull the financial plug…
read moreStrategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan has asked the European Union to investigate whether its funds are being transferred to organizations that promote boycotts of Israel. On Wednesday, the European Court of Auditors published a detailed report on the funding the…
read moreJewish and Zionist groups at Wake Forest University in North Carolina applauded their student government this week, after it endorsed a resolution condemning antisemitism and adopting a definition of the hatred that includes anti-Zionism. In a measure passed earlier this month, Wake…
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n a personal email made public on Wednesday, acclaimed Australian rock musician Nick Cave condemned Brian Eno — the legendary British musical artist he lauded as “my hero” — over the latter’s continuing support for a cultural boycott of Israel. Cave — the…
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As the fall semester ends the election of BDS supporters to Congress and the growing public conflicts between university faculties and administrations have made a BDS national political issue. With near uniform progressive support for BDS as free speech, rather…
read moreIn October, the University of Michigan went through a number of controversies concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict, one brought on by a faculty member, adherent of BDS, who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student who wanted to study in…
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