Tag: BDS Movement
Israel needs American Jewry, now more than ever
The Jewish diaspora in the United States is becoming increasingly estranged from Israel. American Jewish youth are being pushed away from affiliation with the Jewish state, and some Jewish students are even forced to hide...
Summertime Blues and Whites: In an era of BDS, kids connect to Israel at...
Aviva Weinstein fell in love with Israel thousands of miles from the Jewish homeland at Camp Ramah in the Poconos.
Weinstein is among the generations of North American Jewish teens who have forged lifelong attachments...
Israeli campaign against BDS results in 30 organizations losing fundraising accounts
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry released a report on Monday revealing that a two-year ministry campaign to dry up the funds of pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement organizations with ties to terrorist organizations has...
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: Anti-Semitism is a ‘right-wing movement’
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday dismissed the notion that anti-Semitism exists on the left side of the political spectrum, saying that Jew-hatred is a “right-wing movement.”
At a press conference in...
Campus activists call-in ‘reserves’ to counter new anti-Israel tactics
Every spring, pro-Israel and Jewish students across American college campuses brace themselves for a slew of anti-Israel activity. Dubbed “Apartheid Season,” the months of March to May are rife with anti-Israel protests, lectures and the...
It’s more than just a parade for Israel
They come from all over the greater New York area and around the United States. Tens of thousands of Jews (and non-Jews) gather once a year in New York City to march down Fifth...
PayPal among online payment platforms that shut down services to BDS group with terror...
PayPal has joined other major online payment systems in shutting down services to the BDS group Samidoun, which has close ties with Palestinian terror groups.
Over the last several weeks, the International Legal Forum, along...
Madonna pushes back against BDS pressure to boycott Eurovision
In a statement to Reuters today, popular music icon Madonna pushed back against Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) pressure to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, where she is scheduled to make a...
Report: Bot accounts promoting Twitter campaign to boycott Eurovision
Hundreds of fake and bot accounts have been promoting a Twitter campaign calling on artists and others to boycott this month’s Eurovision song contest in Israel, according to a report by the country’s Ministry...
Gene Simmons among 100 artists supporting Eurovision contest against Israeli boycott
More than 100 artists, including KISS frontman Gene Simmons and television-reality star Sharon Osbourne, have signed a statement against calls for boycotting the Eurovision song competition next month in Tel Aviv.
“We believe that unifying events, such...