
On Monday, California State Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) introduced two pieces of legislation to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the State of Israel.
by Adelle Nazarian7 Jan 2016, 5:42 AM PST0

A Republican California assemblyman introduced a bill into the state legislature on Monday that would forbid the state – whose campuses have been a focal point of BDS activity – from doing business with companies boycotting, sanctioning or divesting from
by Breitbart Jerusalem6 Jan 2016, 1:13 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – In a debate about Israel’s future, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and the so-called peace process, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach locked horns with American Jewish author Peter Beinart in Tel Aviv on Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah.
by Deborah Danan7 Dec 2015, 11:10 AM PST0

A British-American academic who rebuffed a request for information from an Israeli schoolgirl, citing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, defended her decision on Tuesday as “fair,” and said she didn’t want to boost the 13-year-old girl’s “ego or make her feel better about herself.”
by Breitbart Jerusalem1 Dec 2015, 5:51 PM PST0

A Spanish judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials over the 2010 raid on a Gaza flotilla that was attempting to break an Israeli blockade, the Jerusalem Post reports.
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

Alan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard Law School professor and Middle East expert, won over Oxford University’s Oxford Union on Sunday in a debate over the Boycott Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the state of Israel, defeating his opponent 137-101 in the heart of liberal academia.
by Jordan Schachtel1 Nov 2015, 8:41 PM PST0

Upholding the convictions of twelve anti-Israel activists, France’s Supreme Court – the Court of Cassation – has confirmed that promoting a boycott of Israel is tantamount to “inciting hate or discrimination”. Back in 2009 and 2010, a dozen ‘Boycott,Divestment, Sanctions’ (BDS) campaigners attempted
by Sarkis Zeronian29 Oct 2015, 10:35 AM PST0

Reverend Jeremiah Wright touted “Boycott, divestment, and sanction” of Israel while arguing “Jesus was a Palestinian” and “Apartheid is going on in Palestine” at Saturday’s Justice or Else! Event in Washington, DC. Wright stated, “please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian, the
by Ian Hanchett10 Oct 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

Pharrell Williams will be greeted by 40,000 anti-Israel extremists protesting his performance Monday night in Cape Town.
by Joel B. Pollak21 Sep 2015, 5:46 AM PST0

Former Pink Floyd bassist and current BDS campaigner Roger Waters railed against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a new interview with Rolling Stone set to be released this month. In an excerpt from the interview published Tuesday, Waters called Trump’s
by Daniel Nussbaum15 Sep 2015, 1:51 PM PST0

A Spanish music festival canceled a scheduled concert on August 22 by American reggae star Matisyahu after he refused to write or videotape a message supporting a Palestinian state.
by William Bigelow16 Aug 2015, 6:47 PM PST0

Last Thursday, opponents of the anti-Israel BDS movement won a huge victory when the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously voted 9-0 to allow a lawsuit to proceed from five members of the Olympia Food Co-op against board members for their 2011 decision to boycott Israeli products.
by William Bigelow1 Jun 2015, 6:53 AM PST0

This week the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel suffered a defeat in California as the governing student body which represents over 2.1 million students in the California Community College System voted to reject a resolution to divest from companies doing business with the Jewish State.
by Adelle Nazarian7 May 2015, 5:31 AM PST0

UC Riverside has reversed an earlier decision to ban the sale of a popular hummus brand that is partially owned by an Israeli company after an anti-Israel student group, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), made the request.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Apr 2015, 1:50 PM PST0

Stanford University president John Hennessy is condemning the vandalism of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at the university, which was daubed with swastikas that were discovered on Sunday morning, the Stanford Review reports.
by Joel B. Pollak27 Apr 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

Two Republican Congressmen, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) have introduced the “Boycott Our Enemies, Not Israel Act,” which seeks to push back against the vicious delegitimization campaign employed by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
by Jordan Schachtel27 Mar 2015, 9:39 AM PST0

LOS ANGELES, California — The sources of monetary funding for anti-Israel propaganda and movements such as boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on college campuses can be linked to taxpayer dollars, according to experts at the StandWithUs conference, a gathering of pro-Israel activists.
by Adelle Nazarian24 Mar 2015, 5:50 AM PST0

Responding to a column on kveller.com by author Alina Adams, in which Adams asserted UCLA was among universities that were antisemitic, actress Mayim Bialik, a three-time Emmy nominee for her role in The Big Bang Theory, defended her alma mater, from which she received a Ph.D in neuroscience, insisting in the Times of Israel that she “had to speak up.”
by William Bigelow23 Mar 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

LOS ANGELES, California — With anti-Israel sentiment spreading on college campuses around the world, especially through the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, experts gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday to suggest ways to push back during Stand With Us’s first anti-BDS conference.
by Adelle Nazarian22 Mar 2015, 5:00 PM PST0

Famed defense attorney and retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz ripped President Barack Obama in an address to a conference of pro-Israel activists in Los Angeles on Saturday evening. Dershowitz, who backed Obama in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, expressed strong disappointment with President Obama’s recent treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the weak negotiating posture of the Obama administration in talks with Iran.
by Joel B. Pollak22 Mar 2015, 8:40 AM PST0

Earlier this week, Edwin Black revealed that the New Israel Fund (NIF) received more than $1 million from the U.S. State Department. This week I can reveal that the governments of Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have also funded the extremist activities of NIF-funded organizations.
by Pamela Geller15 Mar 2015, 11:04 AM PST0

On Sunday, I wrote, “It’s time to out the Jews who fund BDS.” And so now that is exactly what my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), is setting out to do.
by Pamela Geller1 Mar 2015, 5:11 PM PST0

On February 10, four members of the nine-member UCLA student government initially voted against appointing a female Jewish candidate, voicing their belief that her Jewish background made her unfit for the position on the government’s judicial branch.
by William Bigelow1 Mar 2015, 11:37 AM PST0

The scandal of it cannot be overstated: various Jewish leaders and philanthropists are prominent donors to The New Israel Fund, an organization which funds BDS and other anti-Israel initiatives.
by Pamela Geller1 Mar 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

In January, students at UC Davis passed a resolution urging the school to divest from companies doing business in Israel. On Wednesday, UC Davis’s student court declared the resolution to be unconstitutional (i.e. not in accordance with standards outlined in the student court) and ruled against it, following an appeal from the university’s students.
by Adelle Nazarian20 Feb 2015, 11:16 AM PST0