Tag: BDS Movement
Spanish regional government hires pro-BDS group ‘to teach against hatred’
The regional government in Valencia, Spain, has hired a group that supports the BDS movement, which is widely regarded as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, to train teachers on how to combat bigotry.
The organization, BDS Pais...
BDS co-founder: ‘If Israel finds a cure for coronavirus, no problem to use it’
Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, said in a video on Sunday on Facebook that if Israel discovers a cure for coronavirus (COVID-19), then cooperation with the Jewish state is acceptable.
“If Israel finds...
70-plus faculty members thank Columbia university president for battling BDS vote
More than 70 Columbia faculty members have signed a letter thanking university president Lee Bollinger for expressing opposition ahead of an undergraduate student referendum next month calling on the university to divest from companies doing business in Israel.
The 74...
How not to ensure that Democrats remain pro-Israel
When compared to the collapse of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, the results of a congressional primary election in Illinois remain insignificant. But as much as the defeat of Rep. Dan Lipinski by Marie Newman, a left-wing challenger, pales...
Anti-Israel Democrat upsets House incumbent; neo-Nazi fails in Republican primary
In the Illinois 3rd Congressional District primaries on Tuesday, a progressive narrowly upset the incumbent, a pro-Israel Democrat, while a neo-Nazi and Holocaust-denier lost in a landslide in the Republican race.
In the Democratic race,...
‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African continent
The BDS movement, whose goal is for rest of the world to quarantine the State of Israel as though it was the coronavirus, is undergoing a “rebranding” in its South African heartland.
Last week, BDS...
Sanders campaign names new senior adviser who promotes BDS, has called Zionism ‘racist’
The Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has named Phillip Agnew, who has called Zionism “racist,” and co-founded a group that supports the anti-Israel BDS movement and a U.S.-designated terrorist group, a senior adviser.
“I...
Filmmakers boycott LGBT film festival in Tel Aviv in ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians
At least 100 LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and film artists are among a group of more than 230 people in the film industry who have signed a pledge to boycott TLVFest—an LGBT film festival in Israel—as...
Jewish and other minority groups denounce California’s narrow focus on ‘people of color’ in...
Several Jewish and other ethnic minority organizations are urging California’s leaders to reconsider narrowing the state’s proposed ethnic-studies curriculum, which focuses solely on “people of color” at the expense of other minority groups in...
Illinois House candidate’s 2018 ad resurfaces, criticizing AIPAC and supporting BDS
A previously unseen 2018 campaign advertisement for an Illinois Democrat currently running for the U.S. House of Representatives features attacks on her opponent for his support of AIPAC and his stance against the BDS...