Tag: BDS Movement
Spanish VIPs get the message: BDS is bad for everyone
The ongoing barrage of Hamas rockets on Sunday and into Monday didn’t stop a group of 10 Spanish lawmakers, policy-shapers and journalists currently in Israel from continuing their fact-finding mission about the threats that...
Jewish Voice for Peace anti-Israel narrative exposed in Canary Mission report
Since 1996, Jewish Voice for Peace has been a prominent anti-Israel group nationwide, especially on college campuses, advocating for the BDS movement and collaborating with similar groups such as IfNotNow, according to a new report from...
69 groups: US Education Department must guarantee tax dollars won’t go to BDS
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, 69 organizations asked for assurances that taxpayer dollars will not be used towards supporting the BDS movement.
The letter was prompted by two pro-BDS events recently hosted by...
Argentinian Jewry protests BDS advocate Waters’ tour
Argentina’s Jews are protesting the Latin America tour of former Pink Floyd member and pro-BDS advocate Roger Waters.
A day before his concert on Saturday, Waters partook in a pro-BDS event in Buenos Aires.
“We must insist to...
Students Supporting Israel: A group for pro-students by pro-Israel students
After Israeli and Armenian flags were torn down and other items were thrown to the ground by anti-Israel protesters at an event in May at the University of California, Los Angeles, the school’s Students Supporting...
Florida governor-elect Ron DeSantis: ‘I will be aggressive against BDS’
If there is one American politician who has made support for Israel a daily agenda item, Florida governor-elect Ron DeSantis is that person.
DeSantis,a Republican who for six years served in the U.S. House of...
FSU SJP member arrested for throwing chocolate milk at college Republicans
A member of Students for Justice in Palestine at Florida State University in Tallahassee was arrested and charged with battery for throwing chocolate milk last week at a group of student Republicans tabling on...
One week after Pittsburgh synagogue slaughter, BDS resolution introduced at NYU
In the aftermath of the deadliest attack in American Jewish history, a measure calling on New York University to separate its interests from firms such as Lockheed Martin, General Electric and Caterpillar Inc., which do business...
Caving to BDS, Spanish city cancels water-polo match against Israel
A city in Spain has caved to pressure from the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and has announced that it will not host a women’s water-polo match between Spain and Israel.
The match had been...
University of Michigan hosts ‘pro-BDS’ event, despite recent anti-Israel incidents
Despite the recent wave of anti-Israel incidents at the University of Michigan—and following the deadliest attack on Jews in history of the United States—the school’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies held a town-hall program fostering...