Tag: BDS Movement
How should Jewish leaders confront challenge of BDS groups within their communities?
The decision last week by the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) to pass a resolution declaring that any member organization supporting the BDS movement could be expelled from the council has generated a wider discussion...
Roseanne Barr: Residents of Judea and Samaria are ‘pioneers’
American Jewish actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr toured Samaria on Friday as part of an international campaign against the BDS movement she is leading along with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Boteach and Barr met with head...
How not to remember the Holocaust
While Israel and Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust with a Yom Hashoah on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (which this year falls on May 2), the rest of the world...
Germany vows to prevent BDS activity at Berlin Jewish museum
The German government vowed this week that it would not let the Jewish Museum Berlin serve as a platform for the BDS movement, Israel Hayom has learned.
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters,...
House resolution introduced, rejecting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, three Republican members of Congress introduced on Wednesday a House resolution condemning anti-Semitic and anti-Israel vitriol in the United States and worldwide.
Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.),...
In latest case, San Francisco files lawsuit against Airbnb for delisting area-specific properties
A new lawsuit has been filed against Airbnb, this time in San Francisco.
It alleges that the company, in its decision to delist accommodations owned by Jews in the geographical area of Judea and Samaria,...
Pro-Israel groups take issue with appointment of Omar to House Foreign Affairs Committee
It didn’t take long for Jewish and Israel-related groups to react to the appointment of anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Along with several other new members of Congress, Omar has gained...
Boston JCRC moves towards ouster of Workmen’s Circle over BDS support
The Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) took an unprecedented step on Thursday in passing a resolution declaring that any member organization supporting the BDS movement could be expelled from the council, which could...
Anti-Israel Democrat Ilhan Omar appointed to House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite anti-Israel statements made by the freshman Democrat, such as tweeting that “Israel has hypnotized the world,” and her support for...
Senate Democrats block pro-Israel, anti-BDS bill for third time in two weeks
For the third time in the past few weeks, Senate Democrats failed to reach the necessary 60 votes on Monday evening to end debate on Republican-introduced legislation that, if enacted, would impose fresh sanctions on Syria,...