Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given a full-throated defence of his condemnation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement during a historic apology for how Canada turned away Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust. “I will continue to condemn the…
read moreThe decision last week by the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) to pass a resolution declaring that any member organization supporting the BDS movement could be expelled from the council has generated a wider discussion among Jewish leaders as to where…
read moreOver the past decade, the BDS movement has emerged as one of the principle challenges towards the legitimacy of the State of Israel. A modern distortion of the South African anti-apartheid campaign, the movement seeks to put economic pressure on…
read moreSan Francisco-based short-term rental company Airbnb has been sued in federal court over a policy that the plaintiffs of the lawsuit say discriminates against Jewish people. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in San Francisco by attorney’s David Schultz and L.…
read moreThe National Education Union (NEU), the largest large teachers union in the UK, has backtracked on a boycott of SodaStream advertisements in its union magazine, and ostensibly on other Israeli-based companies, after a member of parliament criticized the organization’s stance…
read moreA planned protest by anti-BDS activists on Thursday apparently caused the German-Kurdish cultural house in Bonn, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, to pull the plug on a talk that was slated to feature hardcore supporters of a boycott of…
read morePoliticians in the German city of Bergisch Gladbach, including Mayor Lutz Urbach, are facing intense criticism for bucking a growing trend across the country to adopt an anti-boycott Israel resolution and combat growing contemporary antisemitism. “The mayor is supporting a…
read moreThe president of Germany’s nearly 100,000-member Jewish community called on the Bank for Social Economy, in an unusual direct and angry statement, on Tuesday to pull the plug on its account with the pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group Jewish…
read moreThe Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions issued a strong blow against the French Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement by closing its account with an online payment service that has emerged as the go-to financial fundraising institution for many…
read moreStudent leaders at the University of Manitoba have condemned the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) for recently affirming its support for the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The CFS — Canada’s largest student association — passed a…
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