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French Court Rules Anti-Israel Boycotts Same As ‘Inciting Hate’

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

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Antisemitism, Again: UC Riverside Approves Anti-Israel Course

The rise of antisemitism throughout college campuses in California has emerged again–this time at the University of California Riverside in the form of an anti-Israel course that was reportedly approved by the school’s faculty and has resulted in no less than 20 Jewish and pro-Israel groups penning an open letter to the chancellor requesting its removal.

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Stanford Student Files Complaint after Jewish Faith Questioned

A junior at Stanford University has filed an official complaint after being questioned about whether her Jewish faith would affect her ability to serve in the student Senate. The allegedly antisemitic incident is the second such recent case in California, coming a month after UCLA’s student council questioned a candidate for student office about her Jewish faith.

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Mayim Bialik Defends UCLA from Antisemitism Charges

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.”

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Experts Wrestle with Anti-Israel Movement on Campus

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.

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Dershowitz Rips Obama on Iran: Couldn’t ‘Negotiate a One-month Lease’

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.

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Anti-Israel Culture at UCLA Blamed for Anti-Semitism

A recent meeting at UCLA to nominate a Jewish sophomore to the student council’s Judicial Board, is the latest incident to shine a light on a culture of apparent antisemitism at UCLA. Staunch anti-Israel rhetoric has pervaded the University of California school system for sometime.

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UC Students Vote to Divest from Israel–and America

LOS ANGELES, California — An emotionally-charged and highly divisive vote took place at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Sunday as pro-Israel students attempted to thwart two different divestment resolutions at the UC Student Association (USCA). Both divestment resolutions subsequently passed, including one which called for divestment from most of the world, including the United States.