If Brazil does not accept Dani Dayan as an ambassador, it could set a precedent that would block "settlers" from the post elsewhere in the world.
He will make sing and play for the fourth time in Israel, where he once he enjoyed his best-ever audience.
The large Galeria Kaufhof chain denied a previous report that it took "settlement" goods off its shelves and insists, "We don’t get involved in politics."
The suspicious object, the third this year at the embassy, was placed on the same day of a BDS rally.
A bill submitted by a Likud MK would require a label on all products from EU countries that label Israel products from Judea and Samaria.
The author was one of 150 British artists who signed an open letter backing "cultural engagement" instead of a boycott, which 343 British scholars backed in a counter-statement.
Netanyahu: "We have historical memory of what happened when Europe labeled Jewish products."
The President said, "Settling in the land of Israel is the right of the Jewish people."
His new book is called "Palestine" a features a cover showing a map of "what used to be Israel" and with the word "Palestine" plastered over it.
Arafat in 1988 recognized Israel as a Jewish state. Abbas has wanted to delete the word "Jewish." Now Erekat wants to delete the word "Israel."
Stephane Richard, who dumped on Israel yesterday in Egypt, spoke warmly in Jerusalem in 2012 on his first visit to Israel.
He also criticized Britain for boycotting Israel's defense expo; British diplomat claims UK "committed" to trade links with Israel.
Foreign Ministry nerds are wrongly calling the boycott an aftermath of the FIFA nonsense.
The festival also blocked a Freedom of Speech Village that was to include an "I am Charlie" exhibition.
Cruz said everything the GOP's Sheldon Big Bucks Adelson wanted to hear, but wouldn’t it be better to let BDS die from lack brain disease?
Was the original CBC report, that Ottawa might target boycotters with hate crime charges, fueled by hate?
The Canadian government has expressed "zero tolerance" for boycotters of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Indiana General Assembly has become the second-ever state legislature to pass a resolution that formally opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Tennessee lawmakers approved a similar measure on April 21. Adopted in a voice vote, the Indiana Senate approved Resolution 74, which “expresses opposition to the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel” BDS […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tennessee becomes the first state to formally condemn the BDS movement.
Poet Erez Biton, who was awarded the Israel Prize for Literature on Yom Ha'Atzmaut, used the occasion to warn against sponsors of the Boycott Israel movement. "Strident voices are being heard in the world including those who are challenging the very existence of the State of Israel," he said. "There are even those among them […]
The court unanimously rejected petitions against the Israeli law prohibiting boycotts on Israeli products.
If the "Boycott Yesha" movement is true to its ideology, its cheerleaders won’t vote March 17.
God has not cooperated with the Boycott Israel movement.
Where is the Boycott Movement when we need them?
Slowly but surely, the truth wins, which is why Obama is losing.
Add BDS to the long list of those who never will forgive Obama.
By Kosher Today
If you don’t live in Israel, at least ‘Buy Israel.”
BDS gets doused again with the announcement that the California Beach Boys are going to surf in Israel.
The prosecutor says Masterson told police, "I didn't want him to think I'm scared.”
The Boycott Israel movement, so far, is more bark than bite.
Islamic-driven violence drives another nail in a civil British society.
By JTA
Pro-Israel groups sometimes forget that others are listening.
Perhaps the city of Bradford can declare itself a “George Galloway-free zone.”
By Robert Klein
I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I read that the divestment vote was, in your words, "about morality and not politics".
By JTA
The Graduate and Professional Student Association at the University of New Mexico passed a non-binding resolution on Saturday calling for the university to divest from companies that operate in Judea and Samaria. The resolution calls on the university to divest from companies that “directly profit from the ongoing violations of international law and human rights, […]
The Boycott Movement, like the Palestinian Authority, is slowly but surely dissolving itself.
The BDS movement has done us a favor by showing the world they are idiots over the Scarlett-SodaStream duet.
The student union of Ryerson University in Toronto voted to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel, but the university said it will ignore the non-binding decision. “The student union is a corporation independent of the university, we have to be clear there,” said Michael Forbes, a spokesperson for Ryerson and quoted […]
By JTA
The student government at Chicago’s Loyola University passed an Israel divestment resolution for a second time, while a similar resolution was defeated at the University of Michigan. On Tuesday, the Loyola United Student Government Association in a revote from a week ago passed the measure by a vote of 12-10 with nine abstentions. The resolution, […]
The Rolling Stones are not Jewish, Zionists or the model of holiness, but if it is bad for BDS, it is good for Israel.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he does not support the leftist-Arab "boycott, divest, sanction" campaign against Israel but added that products made in Judea and Samaria should not carry a “Made in Israel label.” He told the Associated Press in an interview that he and other “elders,” a group of retired senior leaders, “decided […]
If the Boycott Israel movement has any intellectual honesty, which it doesn’t, let’s see it tackle Whirlpool subsidiary KitchenAid.
Perhaps the Saudis are afraid that eating Zionist fruit will indoctrinate its citizens with a bit of common sense.
By JTA
An airline owned by the United Arab Emirates said it “emphatically refutes” claims that it excludes Israel from its official travel-route map and refuses to transport Israelis. In a statement, Etihad Airways wrote that it carried more than 1,000 passengers traveling with Israeli passports last year, refuting assertions made in the New York Post newspaper. […]
By JTA
The flood of anti-Israel hatred on campuses seems to be losing some of its strength.
The differences between the Boycott and Pro-Israel movement are that BDS is unified and is not crippled by competitors.
Netanyahu’s comments about the Boycott Israel movement is a sign he is seriously worried about its potential damage.
The giant Dutch ABP pension fund has rejected dis-investing from Israeli firms as was done earlier the past several days by funds in Denmark and Norway. The bank announced that it issued a statement that it is holding on to its investments in three Israel companies because of the publicity over the other funds’ boycott […]
Boycotting a boycotter could boomerang, despite all of the good intentions off those behind the idea.
Canada’s Employment minister Jason Kenney has countered the BDS ‘Boycott SodaStream” campaign by buying one of the company’s soda-making machines and crediting Oxfam for the idea. Oxfam has dumped Scarlett Johansson as an ambassador because she signed up to promote SodaStream whose 20 factories around the world include one in the industrial area of Maaleh […]
If one could trade stock in left-wing groups linking SodaStream’s stock drop to BDS, then Mondoweiss is a short sale.
By JTA
Roger Waters assailed actress Scarlett Johansson for working with SodaStream and musician Neil Young for his planned performance in Israel. In a Facebook post on Saturday, the former Pink Floyd front man said he was making a public plea to Johansson and Young after writing to them privately in recent days. Waters has publicly called […]
Norway has reinstated its 2010 boycott of two Israeli companies because their operations included activities in Judea and Samaria, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Finance Ministry of Norway also said it secluded an Indian copper and metal producer due to "an unacceptable risk of serious environmental damage and serious violations of human rights." […]
The nationalist Legal Grounds organization in Israeli has applauded actress Scarlett Johansson for standing up for Israeli-based SodaStream and invited her to Israel as their guest “to see for herself the benefits that SodaStream and other Israeli companies based in Judea and Samaria provide to people of all religions and ethnicities.” SodaStream recently signed on […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Legendary folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger, who died on Monday in New York City at the age of 94, left behind a complicated if not questionable legacy when it came to Israel. Famous for 1960s hits like “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” Seeger […]
The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has given a suspended sentence of a one-year ouster to 11 students charged with disrupting a concert last march by Israeli-born pianist Yosef Reshef on the university campus. The students and other Muslims and BDS extremists broke into the auditorium and forced the cancellation of a performance the world-renowned […]
Israel was officially admitted as full member of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in a ceremony in Geneva Wednesday. Israel is the 21st member state of CERN and the only country outside Europe to have achieved full membership. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman represented Israel at the ceremony held at the CERN Globe of […]
Approximately 350 Dutch Christian activists demonstrated early Monday in front of the headquarters of PGGM, manager of the largest pension fund in Holland, to protest its recent decision to pull out its investments in five Israeli banks, the European Jewish Press reported (EJP). PGGM said it got rid of shares in Bank HaPoalim, Bank Leumi, […]
Will the BDS Movement boycott Scarlett Johansson because of her starring in SodaStream Super Bowl ads?
Greece’s Ambassador to Israel Ambassador Spyridon Lampridis said Wednesday that the European Union is a friend of Israel and that Greece will make sure the EU does not boycott or isolate the country, despite differences of opinion. He told Israel radio that Greece will do everything it can to prevent a diplomatic fight between Israel […]
The Stones are negotiating for a $.5 million offer to play in Tel Aviv.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Brandeis University and Penn State Harrisburg on Wednesday announced they have withdrawn from the American Studies Association (ASA) following the ASA membership’s Dec. 15 vote to endorse a boycott of Israel. “We view the recent vote by the membership to affirm an academic boycott of Israel as a politicization of the discipline and a rebuke […]
By JTA
A one-third turnout of American Studies Association (ASA) members have voted to endorse its national council’s call for a boycott of Israeli universities, the ASA announced Monday, a day after the deadline for voting. There were 3,853 eligible voters, but votes were cast by only 1,252 members, two-thirds of whom approved the boycott, according to […]
By JTA
A German soccer team withdrew from a sponsorship agreement with Saudi Arabia’s national airline because it refuses to ticket Israeli citizens. The FSV Frankfurt team abrogated the contract with Saudia this week after criticism leveled by Jewish groups and other organizations, according to the Associated Press. The airline’s director told The New York Post in […]
The European Union is quietly trying to climb down from a weak limb it stood in July with a statement but Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton “that bilateral agreements with Israel do not cover the territory that came under Israel's administration in June 1967.” The Israeli government reacted strongly, and even President Shimon Peres objected […]
"Here Is Israel" hopes viewers will see that focusing solely on demonizing Israel isn't just unfair to Israel, it is a betrayal of their best intentions.The video will arm potential anti-Israel activists against turning into unwitting hypocrites, instead of advocates for just causes.
If the Boycott Israel movement were intellectually honest, it would condemn the Nobel Prize judges for awarding Israelis. Let’s see how many pro-boycott academics will snub Israel’s universities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Everyone is “Pro-Israel” today. Jewish federations bankroll “Zionist” Gaza sympathizers and “Zionist” boycotters of anything over the “Green Line.” Fundraisers find they have crossed the “red line.”
Roger ‘Pink Floyd’ Waters learns not to start up with Israelis, especially a woman. And especially supermodel Bar Rafaeli. She exposed his hypocrisy of boycotting Israel but using her photo for his concerts.
By JTA
A French court has acquitted three activists charged with discrimination and hate crimes for calling for a boycott of Israeli products in 2010, the France 3 television station reported. The activists, Bernard Cholet, Jeanne Rousseau and Yamina Tadjeur, made the calls during a protest at a shopping center in the southern city and were charged […]
By JTA
A French senator said she will complain to police over death threats she received after proposing special labels for halal and kosher meat. Sylvie Goy-Chavent of the centrist UDI party will lodge a complaint with police over the threats and online “calls for civil war and a call for the Israeli government to attack France,” […]
Welsh singer Tom Jones has given the Boycott Israel another kick in the pants by announcing he will perform in Tel Aviv in October Jones, now 73 years old, will appear the Nokia Stadium in Tel Aviv. Earlier this week, Eric Burdon, former lead singer of the Animals, changed his mind about honoring the boycott […]
What do Rami Levi, Harel Wizel and Eil Orgad have in common? They are Israelis stores in Judea and Samaria. They also may be the key to destroying the peace process and making real peace.
Will Obama Munch at a Burger Ranch and support the settler movement? Will McDonald’s repent for boycotting Samaria? Will the Third Intifada erupt over Burger Ranch’s setting up shop in Ariel?
SodaStream is another Israeli miracle, so is that why the anti-Israel folks are so angry? Yes, but also it must really bug them that so many Arab Palestinians work in SodaStream factories, ignoring the haters' boycott demands.
By JTA
The Federation of French-speaking Students in Belgium (FEF), a body boasting some 120,000 students in the country, has almost unanimously called for “a freezing of relations with Israeli universities.” The move was initiated by the University of Louvain (UCL), according to Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir. The 2012 the General Assembly of the Louvain students […]