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A controversial online video promoting this weekend’s National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference at the University of Pennsylvania was pulled by organizers at the height of their effort to advance their agenda targeting Israel. The flap over the video…
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[NB This version differs in minor stylistic ways from the Jerusalem Post one] A self-proclaimed National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference is set to take place at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) an Ivy league institution in the heart of Philadelphia during the…
read moreThe University of Pennsylvania will be breaking all precedents about legitimizing and mainstreaming anti-Israel activism on prominent college campuses this week — and crossing a new red line — by hosting a conference, called PennBDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions),…
read moreNOTE: A CORRESPONDING PETITION HAS BEEN CREATED WHERE YOU CAN SIGN TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. THANK YOU. This weekend there will be a gathering on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania by advocates of selective punishment of Israel for…
read morePenn Statement on Planned BDS Conference A campus student group, Penn BDS, is planning a national conference in February that will encourage boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is not an event sponsored by the University. The event…
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With this year’s National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference set to take place at the University of Pennsylvania in early February, it’s important to understand what the BDS movement is all about and what its ultimate goals are. The movement’s…
read moreIn 2001, Amr Moussa, the current Egyptian Secretary-General of the Arab League, briefly achieved pop-icon status. Serving at the time as Hosni Mubarak’s foreign minister, Moussa’s frequent anti-Israel pronouncements caught the attention of Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim, who…
read moreThe creation last October of the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana (JAACI) flew under the media radar screen, at least outside of Indiana. But the new group may prove to be a harbinger of a growing split in the…
read moreAs March comes to a close, Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) has come and gone on campuses across North America. While the number of schools that hosted IAW events this year remained static, more than 50 campuses – many of them…
read moreProminent Middle East studies professors argue that Israel should conduct negotiations with Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Thus, they demand that Israel — a sovereign state — negotiate with a terrorist organization responsible…
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