Tag: BDS Movement
Questions stir over BDS, certain Democratic primary candidates in Massachusetts
Ahead of the Sept. 1 Democratic primary for the Massachusetts 4th District, questions are growing over one candidate’s past stances regarding the BDS movement.
Progressive Jesse Mermell, a former Brookline select board member, who has...
Germany’s anti-Semitism allies
Part of the challenge of the anti-Semitism debate is its sheer multiplicity of aspects. One cannot simply rate a specific act according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism to determine...
Sarsour featured at Muslim delegates assembly at DNC
Former Women’s March leader and Bernie Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour was featured on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention’s Muslim Delegates Assembly, despite her history of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, support for female genital mutilation and other...
Does it matter if Democratic Socialists don’t want Jews in Israel?
In a bygone era of New York City politics, you could always tell if a politician was serious about running for mayor if he made public plans to travel to the three “I’s”: Ireland,...
Revised California ethnic-studies curriculum draft ‘deeply problematic,’ still ‘exclusionary’
California’s Department of Education released its recommendations to revise the state’s proposed ethnic-studies model curriculum at the end of July, as the original draft curriculum had come under fire for containing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content, in...
Pro-BDS candidate wins in congressional Democratic primary in Missouri
Progressive Cori Bush, who supports the anti-Israel BDS movement, upset longtime Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) in the Democratic primary on Tuesday in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District.
Bush won 48.9 percent of the vote, while Clay,...
Will the Democrats’ generational shift turn the tide against Israel?
For pro-Israel Democrats, the only thing that matters about 2020 is that former Vice President Joe Biden is at the top of the ticket. They have good reason to celebrate the fact that he...
AOC praises support of anti-Semitic groups for letter censuring Israeli sovereignty
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) praised the support by at least 10 anti-Semitic groups for a letter issued by her and signed by other Democrats, The Washington Free Beacon recently reported, citing “an internal email circulated to House Democrats.”
The “supporting...
Legal battle over eastern Jerusalem property highlights attempts by EU to undermine Israeli sovereignty
The Jerusalem District Court rejected a petition filed by an Arab family last week claiming ownership over a house located within the City of David neighborhood/archeological site in the eastern part of Jerusalem, perhaps...
‘Day of Rage’ replaces Al-Quds Day as Toronto’s primary anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hate fest
Following Vancouver’s small turnout for the first in a series of “Day of Rage” protests, Toronto and other Canadian cities took their turn bashing the Jewish homeland under the guise of “No to Annexation”...