“It is unfortunate that Netflix is giving a platform to directors who advocate division and bigotry in the arts of all places."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The translation rights to my new novel are still available; if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement’s institutional boycott guidelines, I will be proud to do so,” she said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under Chapter 808, state law prohibits companies from refusing, terminating business or taking “any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations” with Israel.
Man plans, God laughs.
“The BDS movement goes beyond protection for Palestinians; it calls for death to Israel. I don’t know if you can have a conversation with someone when the opening salvo is you need to die,” said one of the Jewish speakers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Fethi Nourine said he made the decision with the help of his coach in order to “support the Palestinian cause.”
Arizona's state Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced on Tuesday that the state of Arizona is completely divesting from Ben & Jerry's.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
As part of Unilever's acquisition of Strauss Ice Cream, Unilever is allowed no say in the marketing of Ben & Jerry's in Israel, to avoid reducing competition.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Goldreich signed a petition on March 23 calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions in Judea and Samaria.
By David Isaac
What is raising suspicions for some is the identity of one of the key players in the accusations against NSO.
By Adam Kredo
Ben & Jerry’s brought in anti-Israel and anti-Zionist author Peter Beinart, who infamously called for the 'elimination' of Israel, to present the company's perspective to its store owners and franchisees.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Activists and community leaders will hand out educational materials about the BDS movement against Israel, in addition to free ice-cream.
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
Franchisees operating 30 stores across the country, generating $23.3 million in combined annual revenue, say the company’s stance on Israel has damaged their bottom line.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters waved PLO flags while chanting “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution” and “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”
“The second Ben & Jerry’s decided to discriminate against Israel, it affected Florida’s ability to make investments with its parent company,” said Jimmy Patronis, CFO of the State Board of Administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Please continue to be assured that Maryland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ardently opposes any form of discrimination based on religion, national origin, place of residence or ethnicity,” stated a letter by Maryland Secretary of State John C. Wobensmith.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If Unilever is found non-compliant, the state would have to divest from it and any of its subsidiaries.
By Ariel Kahana
“Discrimination against some Jews harms all Jews worldwide,” says El Rosado Group CEO Johnny Czarninski.
“Left-wing activists abuse country-of-origin labels in order to stigmatize products made in Israel.”
The town of Mizpeh Yericho wanted to say thank you to Avi Zinger for standing up to Ben & Jerry's BDS assault.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Left-wing activists abuse county-of-origin labels in order to stigmatize products made in Israel,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said in a release. “Our bill will defend the integrity of the Jewish state by ensuring that Israeli products may proudly bear the label ‘Made in Israel.’”
By Israel Hayom
Passengers handed back the anti-Israel ice cream to the flight attendants.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Unilever’s North American headquarters are in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and employs 1,600 people.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The International Judo Foundation and Sudanese Olympic officials did not provide a reason why Mohamed Abdalrasool missed the match.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Town Supervisor Donald Clavin said the ice-cream maker’s statement “showcases the company’s anti-Israeli stance” and is supported by the “BDS movement—a movement I consider anti-Semitic.”
Ben & Jerry's was already being removed from Australian kosher supermarkets.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Boycotts of the Ben & Jerry’s brand are quickly sprouting at several locations around the globe.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Erdan led a campaign with the governors to pressure Airbnb to reverse its BDS decision - a decision Airbnb quickly reversed.
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The UN reporting "often omits the 'implementing partners' that receive the funding to carry out the programs."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli Arab MK Sami Abu Shehadeh from Joint List sent a letter to the Barcelona Club claiming that coming to the game against Beitar Jerusalem would hurt the feelings of the Arab fans.
They say positions of the Muslim American political action organization Emgage, where Dilawar Syed served on the board, are anti-Israel.
"We need to embrace those who take part in building the country and society, not those who work to destroy it."
"If she thinks Israel is so bad, she is welcome to renounce her Israeli citizenship and go live under the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. She won't be missed."
Red stickers are being affixed to Israeli products with the words “Made with Palestinian blood” or “This product finances apartheid”.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s the first time since 2016 that any American union has officially supported the anti-Israel boycott movement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The bill was supported by J Street and IfNotNow.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Managing director of global communications at the American Jewish Committee Avi Mayer praised the decision, tweeting: “Kudos for rejecting hate.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
HRW’s report is part of a concerted campaign over the past 18 months to interject the term ‘apartheid’ into discourse about Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An organization calls on the general public to avoid the show, arguing that art is being used to normalize “colonialism and repression.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Professor Oded Goldreich, of the Weizmann Institute of Science, who was set to receive the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science next week on Israel’s Independence Day, will not receive the prize this year.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Sudan’s cabinet voted on Tuesday to repeal the 1958 law calling for a boycott on the Jewish state, several months after Israel and Sudan announced the normalization of relations, and 63 years after the enactment of the law.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
BDS Betty has accused Israel of “apartheid” and was one of the few members of Congress to vote against the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, which aimed to curb and defund Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said he has an issue with organizations that don’t disavow “very, very violent tactics” towards Israel, though he doesn’t have an issue with individuals or activists “making a case for what they think is right.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group is now “against the existence of the U.S. and Canada, calling it ‘occupied Turtle Island.’ It is undoubtedly a significant development, and we are monitoring it closely,” the Canary Mission told JNS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While they “respect the original creation of the IHRA Working Definition as an illustrative tool, and as part of a larger and ongoing conversation about the nature of anti-Semitism,” they expressed “concern with its adoption as a legal tool.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The French Development Agency focuses on “on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It appears that candidate Raphael Warnock still has a lot more to walk back, as new anti-Israel video surfaces.
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
The Dec. 8 tweet featured a poster stating “where there is oppression, may there thrive resistance,” and described the First Intifada as “a series of mass protests against Israeli settler-colonialism and occupation.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Aside from government-funding issues, the purpose behind the list is to issue a “public condemnation” of the anti-Israel movement.
By Ariel Kahana
The Norwegian government says it has “neither the right nor the duty” to prohibit Egencia, a subsidiary of blacklisted company Expedia, from providing services inside Norway.
Ilhan Omar lied and claimed Israel ethnically cleansed an Arab village. She lied....
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Palestine Action is seeking to raise 10,000 pounds to “support direct action against Israeli apartheid.”
An investigation conducted by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs (MSA) discovered that at least 21% of posts related to an International Criminal Courts (ICC) investigation against Israel came from fake Twitter accounts - and had 180% greater engagement rates than posts from real users.
By Ariel Kahana
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are said to be in Washington’s sights over their policies and affiliation with the BDS movement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Nearly $6.9 million was given to an NGO ties to the PFLP terrorist organization.
By Israel Hayom
The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s two-part film disproves the “anti-Semitic, intersectional” narrative about the Israel Police force, promoted by groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace.
By Israel Hayom
The Israel Tax Authority is refusing to release information about hundreds of millions of shekels in exemptions received by international groups, some of which actively work against the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Omar Barghouthi threatens boycotts against “every company and every establishment that gets involved in implementing the agreements of shame and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Organizers say it is an “in-depth course on legislative advocacy” in training activists to lobby Congress on BDS and other anti-Israel issues.
Member of Knesset (MK) Heba Yazbak launched an initiative to promote BDS against Israel, while she sits in the Israeli Knesset.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The anti-Israel bill is cosponsored by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andre Carson and Mark Pocan. The Squad+.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The UN blacklist only includes Jewish, and not Arab-owned, Israeli companies- clear discrimination and a violation of the UN charter.
Major Inbal Maman at COGAT said that despite the termination of coordination on the PA’s side, thousands of requests by PA Arabs to receive medical treatment in Israel have been approved during the Corona crisis.
By Ariel Kahana
The plan calls for giving budgetary support to companies that engage in sustainability and other environmentally friendly activities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The legislation prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from entering into contracts worth more than $100,000 with companies with 10 or more employees that engage in BDS.
NCYI President Farley Weiss condemned the marchers who “desperately seek justice and an end to racism" and "are themselves engaging in abhorrent and hypocritical behavior that fans the flames of bigotry and hate.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Four members of Congress are circulating a letter threatening to condition or even cut off US assistance to Israel if Jerusalem proceeds with its planned annexation.
"Our website will be an important resource for students, as well as for the broader public who value both Israel and the truth."
Intersectionality: Exploiting any crisis as an excuse to attack Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
During a 20-minute interview in Arabic via a Podcast, Omar Barghouti appears to have let slip its real objective.
The IDF's information pages in Arabic are extremely popular among Palestinian Authority residents.
The bill will prohibit the State of Missouri and its political subdivisions from entering into contracts worth over $100,000 with companies with 10 or more employees that engage in the boycott of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“A sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation has been waged against Jewish students and their allies on UCI’s campus with impunity,” read a March 12 resolution.
The Palestinian Authority has been threatening and even arresting PA Arabs to discourage them from working for Israelis in the Jordan Valley.
Satellite images reportedly showing the digging of mass graves in Iran.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Democrats just gave a boost to the anti-Israel BDS movement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Boston-based Jewish Federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), recently honored a local activist with ties to the anti-Israel group IfNotNow.
Another US university where Jewish students should not go.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated after the report’s publication that “whoever boycotts us will be boycotted. "
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Other than the Democrats circling the wagons around their anti-Israel radicals, it's not clear exactly what AIPAC should be apologizing for.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Senior PA and Fatah officials stand to make significant personal profits by redirecting livestock imports away from Israel and to their own import connections that would control the market.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The WCC has been running the anti-Israel "Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel" (EAPPI)
The act protects American companies from being coerced to provide information to international organizations for the purpose of furthering boycotts against Israel.
Shabina Lafleur-Gangji, editor of the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild, takes credit for convincing conference supporters and scheduled lecturers to boycott the conference in Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The suspensions meant that the groups’ privileges were temporarily revoked, including reserving rooms, and putting up posters and tables around campus for other events.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hungary joined several other countries that have voiced opposition to the ICC’s move against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The campaign website also states that “the U.S. government needs to stop enabling conflicts by reducing aid from nations committing human rights violations,” a reference implied of Israel.
Amnesty displays a symbiotic relationship with BDS and elements within Amnesty International actively seek to promote the destruction of the Jewish state.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
NGO Monitor dismissed the report as ”simply bizarre" and pointed out how it whitewashes terror.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tlaib said that she’s also advocating for clean water in her Michigan district and “fighting for clean water in Gaza.”
The Conservative Party’s move is seen as a reaction to Jeremy Corbyn.
Israel’s Ambassador to The Netherlands Naor Gilon on Monday thanked Voordewind “and all the supporters of this motion.”
"In a free country that cherishes freedom of expression, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, technology companies like Amazon should not be allowed to blacklist charities."
The NYU department “is isolating students who support Israel by adopting and promoting a specific, one-sided narrative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Netanyahu said that “while the EU chooses not to join the sanctions on Iran, it imposes economic-diplomatic restrictions on Israel.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This decision mandates religious discrimination, treating Jewish-owned and Muslim-owned businesses differently even if they operate in the same geographic location.
By Josh Hasten
“Even though the ECJ ruled against us , this is just the beginning of the fight. We are not going to accept a double standard,” said CEO of Psagot Winery Yaakov Berg.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We want to be the organization that provides a national Jewish progressive home,” said NIF vice president of finance and operations Jennifer Spitzer of a new fund that will include support to anti-Israel groups like IfNotNow.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This is the first instance in which a new Israeli law enabling the deportation of anti-Israel activists has been enacted and upheld by the courts.