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In recent days, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry published a report documenting some 100 examples in which activities of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign qualify as antisemitic, based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism,…
read moreEXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Contemporary antisemitism has the ability to graft itself onto a variety of causes and movements. But the social and information environment in the US and Europe is strongly conditioned by virtue-signaling among elites and increasingly among portions of…
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The fall semester begins with BDS increasingly at the center of American political debates. Following campus trends, political parties have grown more extreme but as the antisemitic nature of BDS is more widely understood, there are signs that limits are…
read moreIsraeli workers inspects barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot, February 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty) The Canadian government said Friday that it would appeal a court decision that said wines produced in West Bank settlements…
read moreIn September the focus of BDS remained fixed on the connection between academia and the political sphere. Prompted by a complaint over a BDS event, the Department of Education warned Duke University and the University of North Carolina over misuse…
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Hiding behind the mask of advancing Palestinian human and civil rights, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, led by the Ramallah-based BDS National Committee, is engaged in an ongoing campaign of delegitimization against Israel, which includes the use of antisemitic…
read moreA banner welcoming people to the American Political Science Association’s annual convention. At its 2019 meeting, a group of political theorists is expected to discuss a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Credit: APSA via Facebook. A resolution to boycott…
read moreKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Kentucky became the 22nd state to enact legislation prohibiting state contractors from boycotting Israel. About a half-dozen other states have executive orders or resolutions. “Kentucky condemns the #BDS movement and refuses to tolerate boycott-related tactics…
read moreIn this photo taken Sept. 12, 2019, Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei poses for a portrait photo at an undisclosed southern city of Germany. Saeid Mollaei has been in hiding since he left the Iranian judo team last month, saying he…
read moreÁras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the president of Ireland in the capital of Dublin, Aug. 28, 2010. Credit: William Murphy via Wikimedia Commons. U.S. diplomats pressed lawmakers and officials in Ireland and Germany to oppose the anti-Israel BDS…
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