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A sign on the campus of Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Credit: Tufts University via Facebook.

New course at Tufts University advances Palestinian narrative, while shelving the Jews

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A new course on the docket this fall at Tufts University outside Boston has caused a bit of blowback even before students enter the classroom. Titled “Colonizing Palestine,” it’s being offered by the Colonialism Studies...
A screenshot of the "Make Israel Palestine Again" t-shirt that was being sold on Amazon. Credit: Screenshot.

Amazon pulls ‘Make Israel Palestine Again’ after outrage

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Amazon is no longer selling a T-shirt that reads “Make Israel Palestine Again” amid outrage from consumers and followers of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a non-profit that tracks radical Islam. Promoted by activists from the...
From the Oval Office, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sept. 27, 2013. Credit: Pete Souza/White House.

Watchdog group sues U.S. government to obtain records of BDS groups under Obama administration

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A conservative watchdog group has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense over Obama-era records pertaining to anti-Israel BDS groups. Judicial Watch...
A mock Israeli checkpoint set up during “Israeli Apartheid Week” in May 2010 on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles. Credit: AMCHA Initiative.

Study finds anti-Israel incidents ‘far more likely’ to contribute to hostile campus environment

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With the summer winding down and students preparing to head back to campus this fall, a new study highlights the evolving threats Jewish and pro-Israel students will face in the upcoming school year. According to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in Berlin on June 4, 2018. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Confronting Germany’s mixed record on tackling BDS

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Malca Goldstein-Wolf, a German Jew, made headlines last year when she convinced the German broadcasting network Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) to pull its sponsorship of Roger Waters’ German tour. She wrote a heartfelt letter to WDR’s...
A demonstration in Seattle by the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace. Credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons.

Can pro-BDS anti-Semites redefine anti-Semitism?

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At first glance, it sounds reasonable. There is nothing wrong with seeking to differentiate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism. After all, Israelis criticize Israel’s democratically elected government every day. Like any other nation, its...
A BDS demonstration outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Young Jews address new campus threats at CAMERA’s annual student conference

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More than 80 students from nearly 70 campuses will be in Boston from July 29 to Aug. 1 for a high-level training conference on how to successfully respond to campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism. The...
Anti-Israel protesters in Israel as part of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Credit: Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign via Facebook.

NGO to take legal action against Ireland’s anti-Israel boycott legislation

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The U.S.-based NGO, The Lawfare Project is planning to take legal action against legislation in Ireland that seeks to ban goods from Israeli settlements. The “Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018,” which passed the...
CODEPINK national co-director Ariel Gold, who was denied entry into Israel on July 2 for her group's ties to the BDS movement. Credit: Ariel Gold via Facebook.

CODEPINK BDS activist barred from entering Israel

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An activist from the group CODEPINK was barred from entering Israel on Monday due to ties with the BDS movement. Ariel Gold, a Jewish American who serves as national co-director of CODEPINK—a U.S.-based, far-left anti-war...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on June 4, 2018. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

What Germans understand about BDS

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Who ever thought Germans would have a better grasp of the need to stand up against anti-Semitism than the Scots? It’s been more than seven decades since the end of World War II, but the...