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A woman wearing a T-shirt which reads, “Boycott Israel”, takes part in a demonstration in favour of the occupied Palestinian people of Gaza in Brussels December 27, 2011. (photo credit: REUTERS/SEBASTIAN SCHEINER/POOL) The Munich Peace Conference has rejected Marian Offman,…
read moreYesterday evening, after a concentrated day of meetings with parliamentarians in Madrid’s Parliament Building, as part of a collaboration with the Spanish-Jewish Information Association ACOM, members of the Samaritan Regional Council arrived at the Intercontinental Hotel in the city center…
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Elio Di Rupo, then prime minister of Belgium, arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) JTA — Two local governments in Belgium have pulled out of a trade delegation to Israel, citing alleged…
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Camargo, located in the Spanish province of Cantabria. Photo: Zarateman / Trabajo propio / CC BY-SA 3.0 A Spanish court has found that a decision by the city hall of Camargo in Cantabria, northern Spain, to boycott companies over their…
read moreThe European Court of Justice has ruled that Jewish products from Israeli-controlled territories must be singled out for punitive labeling if they are to be sold in European Union countries. This attack on Israel’s economy is a blow to America’s most important…
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Protesters Monday demanded that Boston police withdraw from a counterterrorism leadership program in Israel. (Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe) NIC ANTAYA FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE A group of activists Monday called on Boston police officials to withdraw from a…
read moreOmar Shakir, a US citizen representing New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Israel and the Palestinian territories, stands next to Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW, while speaking before departing Israel at Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Nov.…
read moreAnti-BDS poster (photo credit: JWG LTD) The central city of Graz in Austria on Thursday outlawed public space and institutional support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as well as for political Islam. According to the legislation…
read moreLouis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Credit: Ildar Sagdejev via Wikimedia Commons. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informed the Zionist Organization of America this month that the University of North…
read moreHouse Democrats have launched an inquiry into whether the Department of Education singled out a federally funded program for Middle East studies by “creating novel requirements targeted at penalizing the Duke-UNC Consortium.” The Education Department wrote to the Duke-University of North Carolina…
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