Members of Students for Justice for Palestine and their supporters demonstrate at Swarthmore College on Dec. 12, 2018. Photo: Screenshot. Student leaders in Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania voted to endorse a controversial boycott campaign targeting Israel on Sunday, after initially rejecting…
read moreThe US and Israeli flags. Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen. One in five Americans back boycotting Israel, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. “Support by several prominent new Democratic members of the House has raised the profile of the effort…
read moreJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lawmakers want Mississippi to join some other states in refusing to do business with companies boycotting Israel. The Mississippi House on Thursday voted 88-10 for House Bill 761 , which calls for the state to develop a list…
read moreThe State Department is facing accusations that it failed to mobilize to stop the Irish government from pushing through with a major new effort to boycott and isolate Israel, according to sources familiar with the matter who told the Washington Free Beacon…
read moreAdalah-NY advertise a protest against the Israeli Philharmonic. (photo credit: screenshot) An anti-Israel organization staged a protest against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) on Sunday. Adalah-NY, an organization that campaigns for the boycott of Israel, raised signs and carried…
read moreI’ve perhaps never seen as much misinformation and bad legal analysis regarding a given issue than about state laws that require state contractors to certify that they do not boycott Israel or those who do business with Israel, otherwise known…
read moreThe reckless manner in which the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement in South Africa (BDS-SA) handles the Israel-Palestine conflict seems to create the need to reiterate the famous words coined by James Carville during the 1992 presidential elections in the…
read moreShares in South Africa’s largest dairy firm plunged by nearly 10 percent on Thursday, as anti-Israel activists attempted to wreck a $354 million buyout deal with an Israeli-led consortium. Composed of local, black-owned investment companies and the majority stakeholder, the Tel Aviv-based Central Bottling Co. (CBC),…
read moreIllustrative: An Egyptian buys a pin with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) logo in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015 (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) JTA — The Dutch Green Left Party became the Netherlands’ first mainstream political movement to endorse a boycott…
read moreMeir Elran, a former Israeli Defense Forces brigadier general, is teaching a course at the University of Chicago. UChicago’s socialist and pro-Palestinian student groups claimed that Elran’s course “actually infringes upon open discourse.” Two student groups at the University of…
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