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Yalla kosher restaurant in Teaneck, N.J., has been the target of anti-Israel reviews. Source: Google Maps Screenshot.

Food fight? Kosher restaurant in New Jersey targeted with bad reviews by anti-Israel activists

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Online restaurant reviews are the latest battleground for anti-Israel activists who have recently targeted a kosher eatery in New Jersey with a barrage of anti-Semitic comments, including claiming that the food was “stolen.” Located on...
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The mendacious apartheid slur against Israel

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South African archbishop and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, who died on Dec. 26 at the age of 90, was justifiably hailed as a champion of racial equality, especially related to his role in...

Illinois poised to divest from Unilever amid continued Ben & Jerry’s boycott fallout

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The state of Illinois is expected to divest its pension funds of investments in Unilever this coming Wednesday, JNS has learned. This looming decision in Illinois marks the latest domino to fall as the global...

University of Toronto working group on anti-Semitism comes up short, insist Jewish leaders

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The University of Toronto will adopt all the recommendations from its working group on anti-Semitism at the school, but Jewish groups say the recommendations, and the report itself, don’t go nearly far enough to...

ADL report: Anti-Israel student groups top drivers of anti-Semitism on campus

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In the last academic year, pro-Israel college students have felt vilified and ostracized as anti-Israel and anti-Zionism sentiment proliferates at schools nationwide, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. Findings included in “The Anti-Israel Movement...
A Ben & Jerry's store. Credit: Java Designs/Shutterstock.

Palestinian human-rights activist sues Ben & Jerry’s for stirring ‘hatred’ with boycott

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Palestinian human-rights activist Bassem Eid filed a complaint in New York state recently against Ben & Jerry’s over the ice-cream maker’s decision to boycott Israeli territories. Eid filed the complaint last month with New York State’s Division...
Professor Oded Goldreich. Source: Twitter.

Education minister denies Israel Prize to professor who supports university boycott

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Israel’s Minister of Education Yifat Shaha-Biton announced on Thursday that an Israeli professor who signed a petition calling for a boycott of Ariel University Center of Samaria will not receive the Israel Prize. In doing...
A Ben & Jerry's ice-cream shop in Australia. Credit: Enchanted_Fairy/Shutterstock.

Republican attorneys general discuss countering Ben & Jerry’s boycott against Israel

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Representatives from 11 Republican state attorney general offices in the United States met in Washington, D.C., this week to discuss how to address Ben & Jerry’s refusal to sell products in the West Bank...
Miss Universe Andrea Meza from Mexico. Source: Twitter.

Reigning ‘Miss Universe’ rejects calls to boycott Israel-hosted pageant

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The reigning “Miss Universe” came out on Wednesday against the pressure on contestants to boycott the beauty pageant, which is being held for the first time in Israel next month. “Everyone with different beliefs, with different backgrounds,...
Lalela Mswane, Miss South Africa 2021. Source: Lalela Mswane/Twitter.

BDS supporters harass Miss South Africa on competing in Israel-hosted pageant

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The beauty queen who will represent South Africa in the 2021 “Miss Universe” pageant set to take place in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat is facing online harassment by supporters of the BDS movement...