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More than 100 professors and students protested a recent journal issue focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the editorial board wasn’t just going to sit there and take it…. Editors of the “Israel Studies” journal are rejecting demands by a…
read moreThe immediate result of Israel’s recent election was a victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of American President Donald Trump. But the election results have also revived the perennial interest outside the country in the political lives…
read moreAs the spring semester closes BDS resolutions were debated on a number of campuses, often in the context of ‘apartheid week’ agitation. While results were mixed the propaganda value of inflammatory allegations against Jews and supporters of Israel has been…
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Several leading Irish pro-Israel groups and leaders have signed an open letter condemning attempts by BDS groups and Irish LGBTQ activists to pressure the country’s Eurovision song contest contestant, Sarah McTernan, to boycott this year’s competition finals in Israel, which the…
read moreIn a reversal of a 2018 policy announcement, Airbnb will not remove West Bank settlement listings from its website. The policy change came after two federal court settlements Monday between the vacation rental company and two groups of American Jewish plaintiffs…
read moreThe war on Birthright continues. IfNotNowprotested outside of Birthright’s New York City headquarters on April 5, demanding that Birthright make institutional changes to its programming. These events follow weeks of threats from IfNotNow, which is bankrolled by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and dozens of news articles from activists and…
read moreOver 60 Reconstructionist rabbis and rabbinical students said they were disappointed in the movement for backing a congressional resolution that would condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. Reconstructing Judaism, an umbrella body for Reconstructionist groups, on April…
read moreState Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe traveled to Israel to deliver a pen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The pen was used by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to sign House Bill 89, also known as the Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions)…
read moreMembers of Within Our Lifetime, a youth organization for Palestine (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “Why am I being exposed to this inside a museum?” a disgruntled visitor asked a Whitney security staffer. The visitor, a Californian on…
read moreThe Swiss government has been directly funding legal activity targeting Israel over the past year. The funding, estimated at $2 million at least, was transferred by the Swiss Foreign Ministry through its diplomatic mission in Ramallah to a series of…
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