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More than 100 professors and students protested a recent journal issue focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the editorial board wasn’t just going to sit there and take it…. Editors of the “Israel Studies” journal are rejecting demands by a…
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Several leading Irish pro-Israel groups and leaders have signed an open letter condemning attempts by BDS groups and Irish LGBTQ activists to pressure the country’s Eurovision song contest contestant, Sarah McTernan, to boycott this year’s competition finals in Israel, which the…
read moreIn a reversal of a 2018 policy announcement, Airbnb will not remove West Bank settlement listings from its website. The policy change came after two federal court settlements Monday between the vacation rental company and two groups of American Jewish plaintiffs…
read moreOver 60 Reconstructionist rabbis and rabbinical students said they were disappointed in the movement for backing a congressional resolution that would condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. Reconstructing Judaism, an umbrella body for Reconstructionist groups, on April…
read moreState Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe traveled to Israel to deliver a pen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The pen was used by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to sign House Bill 89, also known as the Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions)…
read moreMembers of Within Our Lifetime, a youth organization for Palestine (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) “Why am I being exposed to this inside a museum?” a disgruntled visitor asked a Whitney security staffer. The visitor, a Californian on…
read moreThe Swiss government has been directly funding legal activity targeting Israel over the past year. The funding, estimated at $2 million at least, was transferred by the Swiss Foreign Ministry through its diplomatic mission in Ramallah to a series of…
read moreDr. Bijan Djir-Sarai became the first ever member of the German Bundestag to urge German banks to restrict access to organizations seeking to boycott the Jewish state. Djir-Sarai, the foreign policy spokesman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), wrote to…
read moreThe director of the Israeli office of Human Rights Watch on Tuesday lost his appeal against deportation, having been accused of promoting pro-Palestinian boycotts of Israel, the Justice Ministry said. Omar Shakir had contested the revocation of his work permit last year.…
read moreA Spanish court ruled that a city council that nixed an Israeli film festival due to its support of boycotts of the Jewish state had violated four fundamental rights enshrined in the Spanish constitution. The judicial condemnation came after the City Council…
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