Tag: BDS Movement
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...
International funding platforms are severing ties with BDS-affiliated organizations
Several international funding platforms are severing ties with the BDS organization Samidoun after its purported ties to a Palestinian terrorist group.
According to an email obtained by JNS from the International Legal Forum, PayPal said...
LGBTQ performers to boycott Eurovision with alternative online musical broadcast
A number of music and drag performers who identify as LGBTQ will skip this year’s Eurovision song contest in Israel and instead be part of an alternative online broadcast, exemplifying and in support of...
Sixth BDS national conference sheds light on movement’s intentions and terrorist affiliates
At the sixth BDS National Conference on March 16 in Ramallah, the BDS National Committee presented a comprehensive 2019-2020 strategic plan for the movement, focusing on expanding boycott practices, implementing a strict “anti-normalization” policy...
United States denies entry to BDS founder and leader Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti, founder and leader of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, was denied from entering the United States on Wednesday.
He was informed by airline staff at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel that...
Unlike other UC university branches, Santa Barbara rejects anti-Israel resolution
After more than nine hours of debate, students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, rejected a resolution early Thursday morning that, had it passed, would have followed other student governments in the University of California...
Israeli student at Cornell told by pro-Palestinian campus group to ‘quit complaining’
An Israeli student at Cornell University whose home was hit by a rocket launched by Hamas from Gaza was told in a Facebook comment by a pro-Palestinian campus group to “quit complaining about how...