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Tel Aviv University’s Batya and Isachar Fischer Center for Corporate Governance held its annual conference in memory of Isachar Fischer last week, focusing on the challenges created by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Israeli businesses. In an era in…
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There are four issues of interest concerning the Sultanate of Oman’s efforts to push through a new measure that is similar to the law passed by Iraq earlier in 2022 – an amendment of the existing boycott law against Israel. The amendment…
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An extended legal battle over ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s operations in Israel appeared to come to a close as its parent company announced it had reached an agreement with the brand’s independent board of directors. Unilever, the British conglomerate…
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A little-known charity in the United States that is backed by influential liberal nonprofit groups is the fiscal sponsor for several anti-Israel organizations that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, including a Palestinian terrorist-linked group. Alliance for Global Justice launched in 1998 and is an offshoot…
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C-suites, board rooms and investment firms across the globe are increasingly at risk of becoming unwitting accomplices to one of the most pernicious forms of economic warfare waged against the world’s only Jewish State. How can they protect themselves? Simple:…
read moreAn overwhelming majority of Middle East scholars support boycotting Israel, according to a new survey. From October 25 to November 8, Shibley Telhami of University of Maryland and Marc Lynch of George Washington University conducted the Middle East Scholars Barometer, a…
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Session of the Cortes Generales. Photo: Ministry of Defense/Flickr. Spain’s fight to eradicate antisemitism notched two significant legal victories this week. On Monday, the Supreme Court of Spain ruled that the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel is…
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In January 2016, I became President and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), the then 70-year-old Jewish advocacy and community relations umbrella group for the American Jewish community. On my first day on the job, the Jewish…
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In recent years, anti-Semitism in the U.S. educational system has been primarily associated with the demonization of Israel at institutions of higher education. Activism that targets Jews and a rise in support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)…
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As part of an effort to increase pressure on the Arab League over its boycott of Israel, the Department of Commerce announced on Thursday that it plans to tighten penalties for and increase enforcement of pre-existing anti-boycott laws. Under U.S.…
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