By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Boycotts erode “community cohesion” and “overwhelmingly target Israel.”
The study provides evidence that MESA’s likely adoption of academic BDS would be disastrous.
Virginia Tech’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate members implement the academic boycott on campus and in their own classrooms.
“It is unfortunate that Netflix is giving a platform to directors who advocate division and bigotry in the arts of all places."
“Left-wing activists abuse country-of-origin labels in order to stigmatize products made in Israel.”
"We need to embrace those who take part in building the country and society, not those who work to destroy it."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The petition criticized Mort Klein’s rhetoric on Black Lives Matter, George Soros, Barack Obama, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
The Unidas Podemos and Más Madrid parties, as well as presidential candidate Pablo Iglesias, have a history of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel action and rhetoric.
"Our website will be an important resource for students, as well as for the broader public who value both Israel and the truth."
The act protects American companies from being coerced to provide information to international organizations for the purpose of furthering boycotts 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.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
NGO Monitor dismissed the report as ”simply bizarre" and pointed out how it whitewashes terror.
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.”
The president also questioned how Jewish voters could support the Democratic Party knowing the anti-Israel bias among certain members.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“[It] is deeply troubling—not only for its shocking omission of any mention of Jewish Americans or anti-Semitism or its blatant anti-Israel bias and praise of BDS, but for its clear attempt to politically indoctrinate students to adopt the view that Israel and its Jewish supporters are part of ‘interlocking systems of oppression and privilege’ that must be fought with ‘direct action’ and ‘resistance,’ ” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, head of the AMCHA Initiative.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) can enter the country, despite their pro-BDS views, “out of respect for the U.S. Congress, and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel.”
Booker wants to have his cake and eat it, too. He wishes to appease far-Left anti-Israel activists yet is mindful that pro-Israel contributors have been his biggest financial backers, he deflects criticism by using the “Torah thoughts” to demonstrate his kinship before Jewish audiences. However, repeating Hebrew verses I practiced with him is no substitute to standing with Israel against the genocidal onslaught from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
The final tally, which was conducted by a secret ballot, was 35 votes in favor, 14 against and 14 abstentions. The BDS measure was backed by 51 campus groups and 34 faculty members.
By JNi.Media
Alqasem's supported Rasmea Odeh, a convicted terrorist who murdered two Hebrew University students in 1969.
By JNi.Media
“We’re talking about a handful of people; they’re certainly not going to move Congress’s wall-to-wall support for Israel."
By JNi.Media
The university statement said “it is disappointing that a faculty member would allow their personal political beliefs to limit the support they are willing to otherwise provide for our students.
By JNi.Media
“The facts in this case, many of which were disregarded by the previous administration, are troubling.”
By JNi.Media
"If the academic code of ethics was created for any purpose at all, it was to combat academic boycotts of Israel."
Liberman slammed the Irish Senate for ratifying a first reading of a bill which would make it an offense to trade goods, services and natural resources from Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Panels and discussion emphasized on working together with the local Christian leadership in raising support for Israel.
Every Israeli official should be trained to response like Eli Cohen did to the BDS activist's lies.
By JNi.Media
“Roger Waters is a global symbol of Jew Hatred that should not be welcome in Nashville or anywhere else in the United States of America.”
By JNi.Media
Although it would be wrong to suggest that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) is the leader of the DSA, he received the group's enthusiastic support during the 2016 primaries, and included its honorary chair, vehement anti-Zionist Cornel West in his platform team at the DNC convention.
Can a kitty promote peace?
Four pro-Israel videos you have to see!
By JNi.Media
Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'
By JNi.Media
The event in Basel was secured by local undercover police officers due to fears that Islamic and BDS activists were planning to disturb the event.
Ambassadors against BDS?
By JNi.Media
AMCHA Initiative’s 2016 report indicates two main sources are responsible for anti-Semitism on campus.
Anti Jewish and anti Israel activities that fall foul of the law in the UK.
American campuses are the petri dishes in which the latest version of the oldest hatred grows.
By JNi.Media
'If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you. If you divert revenues from Israel, New York will divert revenues from you. If you sanction Israel, New York will sanction you, period. Thank you.'
A BDS goon went into a store in Michigan and tried to convince him to remove his pro-Israel sign from the window, or else.
Anti-Israel protesters malevolently penned-in those waiting to hear Hen Mazzig.
By JNi.Media
The course learning objectives made it clear that a key goal of the class was to encourage students to accept unquestioningly the false and defamatory idea that Israel is an illegitimate settler colonial state.
By JNi.Media
Another policy resolution that called on the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada, passed committee by a comfortable margin.
By JNi.Media
In 2016, 14 incidents that restricted Jewish students’ civil rights by suppressing their speech, blocking their movement or hindering their assembly were found on 12 campuses.
By JNi.Media
The business community rejects the fabricated accusations against Israel perpetrated by the BDS activists.
"YOU are the Iron Dome of the State of Israel," Danon announced from the podium.
By JNi.Media
The good news is that a 62% majority of US respondents believe that the BDS movement is a form of modern anti-Semitism.
By JNi.Media
All the Israeli signatories on the first petition to foil an effort to halt the boycott are activists in radical Left organizations, which are backed by copious amounts of foreign political funding.
In less than two weeks, Jews around the world will start getting some much needed back-up in the battle against BDS.
'A handful of zealots hijacked the ASA' to promote their own anti-Israel position' claims the lawsuit against the ASA Israel boycott .
The tragic events of 2015 are not a new phenomenon; the tragedies of 1929 bear a chilling similarity
By JNi.Media
Under the new bill, persons active in or are members in NGOs promoting boycotting Israel will not be allowed to enter Israeli territory, for work or tourism.
Vilifiers of Israel will be inside the Greenburgh Town Hall, Israel supporters will be outside Mon, Oct. 19.
Reykjavik passed a law boycotting all Israeli products. Both Israel and Iceland are parties to the WTO which bans such boycotts.
By JNi.Media
Not to worry, soon the EU will be part of the Caliphate anyway...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The organization also is encouraging young Christians to serve in the IDF.
"Bon Jovi couldn’t care less.”
The President announced he will ignore the letter of the law he just signed because it protects Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York follows Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee to condemn BDS.
The Foreign Ministry succeeded in rolling back a boycott of Israeli products sold by a large supermarket chain.
Lawfare activist threatens US-based Coca-Cola with lawsuit.
Anti-Israel South African groups complain that the pro-Israel lobby is "undermining solidarity with the Palestinian people."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Illinois State House of Representatives Executive Committee on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would prohibit state pension funds from including in their portfolios companies that participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The 10-0 committee vote follows the 49-0 passage of the measure in the Illinois State Senate and […]
NYC's UJA-Federation leadership was criticzed for allowing groups that support economic sanctions against Israel to again march in the Celebrate Israel Parade.
Ostensibly Jewish "leaders" are protecting and promoting those engaged in economic and legal warfare against the Jewish State.
Four buses in Copenhagen were found on fire on Friday morning, and a fifth bus was covered with anti-Israel graffiti.
The divestment measures are driven by hatred of Israel, not humanitarian concerns about Arabs.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
President Rivlin has a longstanding family connection to Hebron. His mother’s family, descendants of Chabad Hassidim, lived in Hebron.
By Tibbi Singer
If anyone has had any delusions about this not being a religious war, and anything but a religious war, one need only connect the images that are emerging from this morning’s massacre of four Jewish men in the middle of their morning prayer to the images of Jews massacred in Hebron, in 1929.
A letter from a survivor who recounts the horrors of the 1929 pogrom in Hebron.
18th of Av - 85 years ago today (August 24th on the Gregorian calendar) the ancient Jewish community of Hebron was massacred and destroyed by Arabs.