Omar 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…
read moreLionel Messi and the Argentine National Soccer Team arrived in Israel Sunday evening ahead of a friendly match against Uruguay, nearly 18 months after his side cancelled a match against Israel in Jerusalem due to pressures from pro-Palestinian organizations. A…
read moreThe three-part course of action, decided following approval by UCL’s governing council last week, aims to raise awareness of various forms of racism targeted towards minority and ethnic groups. The statement comes as a particular victory for members of the…
read moreAn El Al Boeing 777 aircraft at Ben-Gurion International Airport (photo credit: REUTERS) Israel has refused to grant visitor visas to seven French politicians who in the past have supported the BDS movement. The politicians include mayors and members of…
read moreSupporters of the South African BDS campaign rally in Johannesburg on May 31, 2019. Photo: Screenshot. The influential lobby in South Africa advocating a boycott of the State of Israel was forced into a climbdown this week, as it abandoned…
read moreA pro-Israel march in Cape Town in 2018. Photo: SAFI. An overwhelming majority in the Senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has rejected a long-standing proposal to endorse an academic boycott of the State of…
read moreA BDS protest in front of Carnegie Hall. Photo: Liberate Art. Proponents of the cultural Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel claim that their cause is human rights and their methods are non-violent. Yet most international entertainers who…
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