Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Photo: Reuters / Debbie Hill / Pool. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called off a planned visit to Switzerland after he was warned that he could be arrested there for war crimes.…
read more(JTA) — A Michigan restaurateur said he will “step away” from opening a Dearborn branch of a burger chain founded in Israel following boycott threats. Sam Zahr will open two other Burgerim restaurants, in nearby Oak Park and Redford Township.…
read moreA pro-BDS demonstration. Photo: FOA / Facebook. Anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) promoters have long tried to stake out the moral high ground — depicting themselves as the champions of the oppressed, and positioning their movement as being on…
read moreThe chief government figure opposing the bill is Foreign Minister Simon Coveney. Coveney argues that Ireland risks its standing in the European Union because the bill is legally unsound. He is correct. A Brussels-based EU trade official warned the Irish…
read morePieter van Oordt, right, with his brother Roger at the Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, Feb. 19, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA) Christian Zionist importers of Israeli goods declined to comply with a government directive to apply special labeling for…
read morel-r: Hesse Interior Minister Peter Beuth, Modi’in Mayor Haim Bibas and Frankfurt Mayor Uwe Becker in Wiesbaden. Photo: Hesse Interior Ministry. The leading municipal association in the German state of Hesse — home to the city of Frankfurt — on…
read morePublic Security Minister Gilad Erdan. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) Minister of Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan during this weeks cabinet meeting spoke about the Palestinian Authority and the BDS movement, claiming there is a “sharp rise in cooperation”…
read moreMunster. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) The student parliament for the University of Münster in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia passed a resolution on Tuesday against the BDS campaign targeting Israel. “We clearly position ourselves against any form of antisemitism…
read moreAmnesty International on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for a boycott on tourism in Israel’s West Bank settlements, urging TripAdvisor staff to press the site’s management to stop “profiting from war crimes.” Rights group Amnesty stage a demonstration outside the…
read moreAs The Daily Wire reported last week, the national parliament of Germany recently decided to formally condemn the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” movement (BDS) against the state of Israel as anti-Semitic — thus taking a stronger stance against anti-Semitism in the year…
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