Activists in Illinois are intensifying efforts to repeal the state’s anti-BDS law, a move critics warn could allow public funds to support boycott campaigns against Israel that many Jewish groups consider discriminatory.
In August, 57 pediatric consultants drafted a letter urging hospitals, clinics and the Irish government to get behind a ban on Teva products over the war in Gaza.
The U.S. State Department said it was “very troubled” by the fund’s decision to divest from Caterpillar over the use of the company’s equipment by Israeli authorities in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
'We reject the claims made by B&J’s social mission board, and we will defend our case very strongly. We would not comment further on this legal matter.'
'We had everything from little children coming into the store during a busy lunch screaming ‘Free Palestine’ while their parents videoed for social media.'
The U.K. group Lawyers for Israel cautioned that the pledge risks breaching the Equality Act of 2010, while the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law in Washington, D.C., said similar prohibitions exist under U.S. federal and state civil rights statutes.
Bringing anti-Israel sentiment into the Academy Awards ceremony, as happened recently, isn't new. Listen to playwright Paddy Chayefsky’s brilliant response at the 1978 Academy Awards to Vanessa Redgrave’s infamous “Zionist hoodlums” speech. Notice the reaction of Jewish playwright Neil Simon in the audience.
As Ireland debates legislation on boycotting goods from Israel, Maurice Cohen, Chair of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, gave his perspective.
The bill, which was approved by the cabinet and is being discussed in Ireland's Parliament, would criminalize the importation or sale of products from Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem.
New York City’s holdings in Israel-issued bonds have plunged from 'tens of millions of dollars' to just $1.2 million in the Police Pension Fund during Lander’s tenure.
UCLA faculty aligned with Faculty for Justice in Palestine are promoting academic boycotts and antisemitic rhetoric, creating a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students.
American universities have largely rejected demands to divest from Israel and entities at all linked to the Jewish state, delivering a succession of blows to the pro-Hamas protest movement.
'Since the mass exodus of Jews from the union after its antisemitic pro-BDS resolution in 2021, its delegate leadership is virtually Judenrein,' Jeffrey Lax, a Kingsborough Community College professor said.
Students for Justice in Palestine’s divestment proposal, the Board of Trustees ruled, 'did not meet the criteria' stipulated in the statement and had to be rejected.
The Mayor of Beverly Hills, who hosted the summit, announced that the October 7 Memorial, established in the city to honor those murdered and kidnapped, will become a permanent fixture.
Tassa's comments were in response to the former Pink Floyd frontman's statements regarding members of the band Radiohead, who have refused to comply with the BDS movement against Israel.