The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held a hearing on Tuesday in a case against the discriminatory labeling of Israeli products in which the French Minister of Economics and Finance in 2016 stated that products from the Golan Heights or…
read moreUC Berkeley’s Sather Gate. Photo: John Morgan. Seventeen faculty members at the University of California, Berkeley, warned on Tuesday against the threat posed by the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign to the academic freedom of their students and colleagues.…
read morePitzer College professor Daniel A. Segal appeared unaware of the irony when he penned an op-ed in January for Inside Higher Ed in support of the Pitzer faculty’s right “to lend support to the Palestinian struggle for equality.” In his op-ed, Segal, a proponent…
read morePhote: REUTERS – Rodrigo Garrido In recent months, the parliaments in Ireland and in Chile took unprecedented measures that place severe limitations on economic trade with the settlements in the West Bank. Although at this stage these decisions are not…
read moreAs a supporter of boycotting Israel, Mieke Zagt had no intention of marketing Israeli wine when she posted on Twitter a picture of the wine on sale at the Hema Dutch supermarket chain. But her tweet, meant to protest the…
read moreWhen letters first showed up on Alan Leveritt’s desk saying the Arkansas Times was required to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel in order to continue to receive state contracts, he ignored them. “I was frankly not aware there…
read moreTexas Republican State Senator Glenn Hegar, one of the sponsor of the abortion bill SB1, speaks during an anti-abortion rally at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, July 8, 2013. The political battle in Texas over proposed restrictions on abortion…
read moreToday, Palestinian landowners and West Bank residents filed to intervene in a lawsuit against Airbnb over the booking platform’s decision to remove listings for Israeli settlements in the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territory. Dual Israeli-U.S. citizen settlers whose…
read moreA crowd watching a performance during Musica sui Bocche in 2017. Photo: YouTube screenshot. The mayor of Santa Teresa Gallura, Italy, recently cancelled an international jazz festival set to be held in August in the city after the program’s artistic director expressed support for…
read moreLate last summer, members and supporters of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) staged a noisy protest outside B’nai Brith Canada’s headquarters, in the heart of Jewish Toronto. They came to denounce what they called B’nai Brith’s smear campaign…
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