Tag: BDS Movement
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...
Spanish high court rules anti-Israel boycott by city council is unconstitutional
The High Court of Justice in Spain’s Asturias province ruled that a city council’s policy of boycotting Israel was unconstitutional.
Last year, the City Council of Castrillon in northern Spain passed a motion effectively boycotting...
Major BDS groups have ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations, ministry says
The Strategic Affairs Ministry on Tuesday named 42 major anti-Israel organizations as having clear ties to Palestinian terrorist groups.
According to the ministry’s data, these groups – part of a network of 300 boycott, divestment...
Spanish city cancels Israeli concert in latest boycott move
The city of Oviedo, the capital of Spain’s Asturias region, has purportedly canceled an upcoming concert by Israel’s NK Orchestra and a ballet performance.
The producer of the concert set to take place in Oviedo...
Pro-Israel group explore legal action after Valencia declares itself ‘free of Israeli apartheid’
ACOM, a pro-Israel Spanish group, is exploring legal action against the city council of Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, after it passed a pro-BDS resolution.
The city council of Valencia approved a motion last week to...