The antisemitic BDS movement suffered a major defeat this week when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) authorized pension fund giant TIAA-CREF to exclude a resolution calling for divestments from Israeli companies from the ballot at the fund’s upcoming shareholders…
read moreOn September 30, 2000, the French channel, France 2, broadcast a televised report which claimed to show the cruel murder of the twelve- year old Palestinian boy, Mohammad al-Dura, at the hands of Israeli soldiers. This powerful visual purportedly portrayed…
read moreBERLIN – The German Green party is under fire because of its push in the Bundestag to label Israeli products from the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Leading German politicians and academic specialists weighed in last week, accusing the…
read moreIn April, 2013, the student government at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) approved a resolution condemning a faculty member, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, at the University of California-Santa Cruz for allegedly making hateful and inflammatory comments about the Muslim Student Association. In her…
read moreWhen I first heard that McGill University, my university, was awarding Professor Judith Butler an honorary doctorate, I winced, quietly. Butler is a caustic critic of Israel, with a blind spot for terrorist totalitarians. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that she is…
read moreThe Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s biggest success is rooted in its ‘soft power.’ The ability to influence behavior through values, policies, institutions and culture, as opposed to ‘hard’ or coercive power exercised through military or economic pressures, plays…
read moreUniversities must be careful in the awarding of honorary doctorates. What seems like a safe choice at the time can come back to haunt a university later. Sometimes even five minutes later. McGill University will be awarding philosopher and gender…
read moreIn May 2013, the Church of Scotland issued a document titled The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘promised land’.[1] This text, which was a follow up to another paper on the same subject, Theology of Land and Covenant,…
read moreSince 2007, I have actively participated in all three global forums held in Jerusalem to combat anti- Semitism. These are undoubtedly important and necessary gatherings which enable a wide variety of concerned, professional and committed people from around the world…
read moreA report presented to members of Congress on Tuesday by Jerusalem-based research institute NGO Monitor shows that US Government funding of several political NGOs in the Palestinian Authority and Israel contradicts US policy, has a negative impact on the peace process, and lacks the independent oversight…
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