Tag: BDS Movement
New course at Tufts University advances Palestinian narrative, while shelving the Jews
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...
Amazon pulls ‘Make Israel Palestine Again’ after outrage
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...
Watchdog group sues U.S. government to obtain records of BDS groups under Obama administration
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...
Study finds anti-Israel incidents ‘far more likely’ to contribute to hostile campus environment
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...
Confronting Germany’s mixed record on tackling BDS
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...
Can pro-BDS anti-Semites redefine anti-Semitism?
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...
Young Jews address new campus threats at CAMERA’s annual student conference
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...
NGO to take legal action against Ireland’s anti-Israel boycott legislation
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 BDS activist barred from entering Israel
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...
What Germans understand about BDS
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...