Tag: anti-Israel Bias
Congress members call for defunding of UN Commission of Inquiry into Israel
A bipartisan group of legislators in the House of Representatives is calling for the United States to defund the U.N. Committee of Inquiry (COI) on Israel.
Led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Vicky Hartzler...
Top Presbyterian reverend in MLK Day sermon: Israel ‘enslaves’ Palestinians
A top Presbyterian reverend on Sunday accused Israel of enslaving the Palestinians, and American Jews of not doing enough to stop it.
“The continued occupation in Palestine/Israel is 21st-century slavery and should be abolished immediately,”...
Unilever’s Israel boycott said to cost company $26 billion
Unilever’s stock has plunged 20.7% in the six months since it informed Avi Singer, the owner of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, that his contract was over unless he stopped selling the company’s ice cream...
Food fight? Kosher restaurant in New Jersey targeted with bad reviews by anti-Israel activists
Online restaurant reviews are the latest battleground for anti-Israel activists who have recently targeted a kosher eatery in New Jersey with a barrage of anti-Semitic comments, including claiming that the food was “stolen.”
Located on...
The reverend father of ‘Israeli apartheid’
Back in 2003, I was a student at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School. I had married my classmate, Malkah, and we were both halfway through the last year of school.
One day, we heard that...
Legal experts: Opponents of Israel to push for ‘apartheid’ designation in 2022
Last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that Israel will face increasing allegations that it is an apartheid state in 2022, with the foreign minister saying that he fears that opponents of Israel will attempt...
ZOA calls on Ocasio-Cortez to fire staffer who called Israel ‘racist European ethnostate’
The Zionist Organization of America has asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to “immediately” dismiss legislative assistant who made anti-Semitic comments targeting Israel on social media.
“Hussain Altamimi has made false, hateful, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel accusations on...
Stewart denies calling Rowling ‘anti-Semitic,’ saying goblin comments were ‘lighthearted’
Jewish comedian Jon Stewart denied calling British author J.K. Rowling “anti-Semitic” over how goblins are portrayed in the “Harry Potter” movies, saying on Wednesday that his comments from last month were “lighthearted” and taken...
The mendacious apartheid slur against Israel
South African archbishop and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, who died on Dec. 26 at the age of 90, was justifiably hailed as a champion of racial equality, especially related to his role in...
University of Toronto working group on anti-Semitism comes up short, insist Jewish leaders
The University of Toronto will adopt all the recommendations from its working group on anti-Semitism at the school, but Jewish groups say the recommendations, and the report itself, don’t go nearly far enough to...