Three Vanderbilt University students were arrested and 16 were suspended after a police officer was pushed at an anti-Israel demonstration this week. A fourth student was arrested at another time during the protest, after broken glass was found.
The Biden Administration continues to apply new sanctions to Israeli individuals and firms as it faces pressure from left-wing activists to take a tougher stance against Israel, lest he lose support in key swing states in the 2024 election.
The explosion of antisemitic protests and riots at elite universities across the United States in the wake of the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has shocked Americans — and the world.
The Biden administration has reversed President Donald Trump’s policy of allowing cooperation between U.S. universities and Israeli institutions in Judea and Samaria, in a gesture that some call an academic “boycott.”
New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawler introduced legislation to combat antisemitism on college campuses following the widely condemned speech delivered at CUNY law school’s graduation event where a graduate speaker was accused of espousing radical anti-American, anti-Israel, and antisemitic rhetoric.
The Biden administration canceled the travel authorization of a government scientist on Tuesday who was to have traveled to Israel to participate in a conference in Israel, the latest sign of a creeping U.S. boycott.
Following Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) outrageous claim she was unaware of antisemitic tropes associating Jewish people with money, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein blasted the Somalia-born Democrat, accusing her of hating America “as much as Israel,” while commending House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for vowing to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Senate Democrats currently visiting Israel asked not to meet with leaders of religious and nationalist parties who were newly elected to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, effectively boycotting them.
Harvard University had the most antisemitic incidents on college campuses during the 2021-2022 academic year, according to a new report.
The Ben & Jerry’s board of directors on Tuesday bemoaned the sale of ice cream under its brand by the company’s Israeli distributor, Blue & White Ice Cream Ltd., reiterating its declaration that selling to Jewish people living in the West Bank was “inconsistent with our values.”
Ignorance and lack of courage are no excuse for blatant antisemitism. This Crimson editorial is part of the oldest prejudice in its newest form. Shame.
Republican Joe Pinion, a former political news commentator who is challenging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for U.S. Senate, discussed the burning issues facing New Yorkers and Americans today as well as his run for Senate in a race to “change the trajectory of our politics.”
The editorial board of the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at the nation’s oldest university, called for a boycott of Israel for alleged “crimes against humanity,” and demanded a “free Palestine,” meaning the destruction of the State of Israel.
William Jacobson, founder of Legal Insurrection, said BDS’s targeting of Israeli univerisites proves the bad faith of the BDS architects.
Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane returned home Wednesday after a triumphant finish in the top three of the Miss Universe competition in Israel — and had a strong message for anti-Israel activists who pressured her to boycott: “I will not be bullied.”
The South African government is being urged to apologize to Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane after she finished in the top three of the Miss Universe competition in Israel on Sunday night — after her own country withdrew its support for her efforts because she would not boycott the Jewish state.
Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane finished second runner-up at the Miss Universe pageant on Sunday evening after defying calls by anti-Israel groups to boycott the competition, which was held in the Israeli resort town of Eilat, Israel.
Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane “may single-handedly have dismantled” the anti-Zionist BDS campaign by competing in Israel, Joel Pollak said.
Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas over the weekend, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley discussed a variety of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, the U.N., and the Biden administration — which she argued could not be “counted on” to stop the Iranian nuclear program she deemed a threat to Israel’s existence.
New York State’s pension fund announced it will be selling its Unilever PLC shares, which total $111 million, due to the company’s subsidiary Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israel’s occupied territories, the New York Post reports.
A new poll released by the Brandeis Center and the Cohen Research Group reveals that 50 percent of Jewish students have felt “the need to hide their identity” on campus, while 65 percent of students in the leading Jewish fraternity and sorority have “felt unsafe” on campus.
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) stated Tuesday more than 1,500 rabbis agree the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is “no longer competent to identify, let alone combat, antisemitism.”
The radical anti-Israel Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) along with over twenty other pro-Palestinian groups, blasted Rutgers University as well as the Jewish campus group Hillel.
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who is campaigning to be governor of New York, called for the firing of Mohammad Abbasi, an adjunct professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Professional Studies, following a recent “vile antisemitic” sermon delivered by him in which he accused Jews of irredeemable corruption and advocated for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein blasted Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company on Tuesday while calling for the removal of its kosher certification.
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is being pulled from the shelves of several supermarket chains in New York since the company announced its plans to boycott Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to a report.
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company faced a wave of backlash on Monday after announcing plans to boycott Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
In a viral clip published this week, documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz approached students in Portland, Oregon, and managed to garner funds to support the Hamas terror organization despite openly presenting the group as determined to destroy Israel and kill Jews.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be imprisoned for “war crimes” against the Palestinian people, far-left Labour MP John McDonnell said on Saturday at a protest in London.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, stated that several Congressional Democrats are “on their way” to supporting the movement. He specifically cited rhetoric from Reps. Cori
Rep. Guy Reschenthaler called out congressional progressives for spreading misinformation about the Israel-Hamas conflict, notably their promotion of the Hamas terrorist group’s positions while criticizing Israel.
A group of Jewish employees at Google is reportedly calling for the company to increase its support of Palestinians and to protect anti-Israel speech, among other demands.
Malaysian “halal activists” – ostensibly groups that pressure vendors into selling food that complies with Islamic dietary laws – on Wednesday announced a boycott against Coca-Cola and other companies seen as supporting Israel during its clash with Palestinian terrorists.
Students at Harvard University have accused Israel of “systematic oppression and ethnic cleansing,” and are demanding the university condemn Israel’s so-called “excessive use of force,” and divest from companies that do business with Israel.
The University of Michigan’s student government issued a statement this week accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” in reaction to the country’s response to Palestinian terrorists launching dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza. According to the public university’s student government, “This is not a ‘conflict,’ but emblematic of Israeli settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.”
Speaking at a televised conference on Sunday, former Israeli ambassador to Washington, DC, Ron Dermer called U.S. evangelical Christians the
Politically conservative Jewish groups are calling for President Joe Biden to withdraw his nomination of Sarah Margon to a key human rights post over her support for boycotts of Israel.
Former Pink Floyd frontman and notorious anti-Israel activist Roger Waters has called on singer Stevie Wonder to turn down the prestigious Wolf Prize award because it comes from Israel.
A coalition of students at the University of Michigan (UMich) called the “Students of Color Liberation Front” is demanding that the school end all university-sponsored trips to Israel, along with replacing Sabra hummus in the cafeteria with an “Arab-owned brand.” Additionally, the students demand to work towards a “police-free campus.”
Ilhan Omar was promoted within the committee despite a history of antisemitic rhetoric that resulted in a House resolution in 2019 condemning antisemitism.
