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ormer Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has launched a move to change the law to allow the government ban local council pension funds from boycotting Israel-linked investments. The ex-cabinet minister told the House of Commons that a “modest” amendment to the Public…
read moreIntroduction The fall semester ended with a new study of social media demonstrating that campus ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ staffers are important promoters of anti-Israel bias. These staffers are part of a pipeline that extends from student governments through higher…
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A beauty queen who claimed to be the Miss Universe contest’s Greek delegate — and announced that she would be boycotting the 2021 Miss Universe competition in Israel — was denounced as a fraud by an organization representing Miss Greece…
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British MP and member of prime minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party Robert Jenrick, has announced on Tuesday that the British government will pass legislation to outlaw the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the UK. Jenrick, formerly the UK’s secretary of…
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A motion to consider divesting from Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever has been introduced in Los Angeles City Council, a response to the ice cream maker’s decision to end sales in Israeli settlements. Proposed by two Jewish council members on Dec.…
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New Jersey will pull its $182 million in Unilever stocks and bonds after a three-month preliminary investigation found that the company’s subsidiary, Ben & Jerry’s, engaged in a boycott of “Israeli-controlled” territories against state law. State officials said that Unilever,…
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The state of Illinois is expected to divest its pension funds of investments in Unilever this coming Wednesday, JNS has learned. This looming decision in Illinois marks the latest domino to fall as the global conglomerate continues to come under…
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The fall 2021 semester ends with pushback against the IHRA antisemitism definition growing on campus, the promotion of a BDS resolution by the Middle East studies Association, and evidence that university ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ personnel are strongly biased against…
read moreThe Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which boasts over 2,800 members, has long been a friend of anti-Israel advocacy. The historian Martin Kramer, considering what was on offer at MESA’s 2005 conference, wrote that “for MESAns, the Palestinians are the chosen people, and…
read moreThe crisis in higher education, faculty, students, and administrations adopting ideological positions radically at odds from those of most Americans and in the process reshaping institutions, is becoming better understood. But none of this is new. Another Israel boycott resolution…
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