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Introduction Editor’s Note: The unusual length of this BDS Monitor is in order to provide a more comprehensive overview that documents the post October 7 antisemitism crisis and as a form of historical documentation. As the war in Gaza progresses…
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A new memo from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), based on direct access to investment firm Morningstar’s Global Access client platform, claims the company has “negatively rated companies doing business in Israel or territories controlled by Israel based solely on…
read moreIntroduction The horrific 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas has generated an unprecedented wave of global antisemitism. Campuses and the BDs movement are at the epicenter of a burgeoning wave that a put hundreds of thousands into the streets…
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The extraordinary horror of the 7 October Hamas massacre in southern Israel has unleashed an unprecedented global wave of antisemitism. Campuses are a critical focal point, with BDS linked students and faculty dropping the mask to reveal genocidal intent, cast…
read moreIntroduction The academic year began with the BDS movement further coopting academic spaces and legitimacy with an ersatz ‘literary festival’ and ‘conferences.’ Deliberately blurring the line between scholarship and advocacy has long been a BDS strategy to gain legitimacy and…
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A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Unilever on Tuesday that claimed the company misled US investors by not immediately disclosing a decision by its Ben & Jerry’s unit to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank and parts of…
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The New York Times has a nasty pattern of publishing attacks on Jews and Israel on the sabbath or holidays, making it harder for observant Jews to marshal an immediate response. Back in 2016, when the Times did this during the Jewish holiday of…
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The beginning of the academic year sees the BDS movement focusing attacks on the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which are making inroads among faculty and students alike. Meanwhile opposition to BDS in politics has largely split along party lines with…
read moreIntroduction As the school year approaches pro-BDS faculty and far left foundations opposed to the IHRA definition of antisemitism have organized an ersatz ‘institute’ and multiple conferences to denounce this widely accepted standard. Coupled with academic boycotts adopted by anthropology…
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British actress Dame Helen Mirren has faced pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel throughout her career but prefers instead to support Israeli artists and the Jewish state as a whole, the famed Academy Award winner…
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