The newly-appointed commission- er against antisemitism in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg said last week he will contact BW-Bank, which is jointly co-owned by the state and its capital city Stuttgart, to secure the clo- sure of a pro-BDS…
read moreAnti-Israel boycott (BDS) organizations recently identified a new target. Following the planned evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar, BDS is looking to boycott the bulldozers used to demolish the illegal structures. Strategic application of measured violence and international sympathy have protected the…
read moreSINGER LORDE attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, California, August 2017. (photo credit: DANNY MOLOSHOK/REUTERS) The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court has ruled that two New Zealand Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists must pay damages totaling NIS 45,000 for…
read moreFrench Higher Education Minister Frédérique Vidal. Photo: Reuters / Regis Duvignau. Fighting antisemitism “is everyone’s business,” France’s minister of higher education declared on Tuesday following a meeting with Jewish student leaders in Paris. The minister, Frédérique Vidal, called the meeting following…
read moreNew Israeli shekel banknotes and coins. Photo: Pixabay. The New Israel Fund won’t back away from funding groups that accuse Israel of colonialism and apartheid, a senior official with the progressive charity told The Algemeiner last week. The clarification comes after Hassan…
read moreGermany currently has no plans to outlaw the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement, the speaker of its parliament said Thursday. “We fight it politically, but we don’t believe that it is fought more successfully through prohibitions,” Bundestag President…
read moreThe Michigan Union on the University of Michigan Campus. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Recently, an associate professor in the American Culture department at the University of Michigan drew headlines over his decision to deny a student a letter of recommendation for a semester-long…
read moreQatar Foundation official Haya Al-Nassr, director of communications, awards Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (left) with a “victory shield” featuring the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Credit: Middle East Forum. For seven years, the Qatari government has been spending $8…
read moreRevellers take part in a gay pride parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 3, 2016. (Baz Ratner / Reuters) “The hideous hypocrisy of those who hate Israel knows no bounds.” That indictment of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,…
read moreTwitter has reinstated the account of Canary Mission—a blacklist of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activists, academics and organizations—following confusion over the tweet by the watchdog earlier this month. “After 2 weeks of being locked, and after 3 rejected appeals, we just received an…
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