Tag: BDS

Cory Booker must explain his waning support for the Jewish State and Israel’s security, which has American Jewry saddened, perplexed, and alarmed.

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein praised Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) for introducing H.R. 6095, the Export Administration Anti-Discrimination Act (EAADA), which will help stop left-wing attempts to urge companies and consumers to boycott Israel.

TEL AVIV – A University of California student workers’ union demanded as part of a renewed contract that UC administrators divest from companies that profit from “the oppression of Palestinians.”

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made chicken arms as he walked into the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday in honor of Netta Barzilai’s victory at the Eurovision song contest the night before. He also opened his remarks by saying “Boker TOY,” a play on the Hebrew phrase for “good morning,” using the name of Barzilai’s song. 

Natalie Portman’s cowardly decision to abandon Israel as it is fighting a war with terrorists trying to overrun its border is shocking and hypocritical.

If American Jewish leaders were interested in defending their values and interests, they would have called Natalie Portman on this stunt when she first tried it in 2015.

An Israeli company located in Judea and Samaria is working to combat the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement through a monthly box subscription that allows supporters throughout the world the opportunity to be part of the Israel experience.

TEL AVIV – A group of Israeli women were barred from participating in a femininity and gender identity festival in Norway over what the organizers described as Israel’s “propaganda” using culture to “whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people.”

WASHINGTON, DC — Israeli and American leaders from the Jewish and Christian communities spoke at a packed event on Monday at the historic Sixth and I Synagogue in downtown D.C. which focused on combating the de-legitimization of Israel through the embrace of Judea and Samaria.

The California Democratic Party voted last weekend to oppose pro-Israel federal legislation designed to counter the “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS) movement, which seeks to isolate Israel economically and diplomatically.

TEL AVIV – The Irish Senate on Tuesday postponed voting on a bill that would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s condemnation of the proposed legislation.

A group of protesters — including several Jews and Israel supporters — stood outside Oakland, California-based Reem’s Arab Street Corner Bakery on Sunday to demand that a mural honoring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh be removed from its wall. “In

TEL AVIV – More than 100 artists penned an open letter published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper Friday in support of New Zealand pop singer Lorde, who succumbed to pressure from anti-Israel activists and cancelled her scheduled performance in the Jewish state.

A full page advertisement calling pop singer Lorde a bigot appeared in the Washington Post this week on the heels of her cancellation of a concert in Israel, after the New Zealand native publicly joined the anti-Israel movement known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS.

It’s so sad to see a pop star like Lorde going over to the dark side of bigotry and antisemitism at such a young age.

New Zealand pop star Lorde sparked intense backlash and calls for a boycott on social media this week after cancelling a planned concert in Israel next summer due to pressure from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

TEL AVIV – Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Monday requested that NGOs in support of anti-Israel boycotts no longer receive eligibility for volunteers from Israel’s national service program.

TEL AVIV – Rocker Nick Cave said his decision to perform in Israel on Sunday and Monday was the direct result of the BDS movement which “bullies and censors” musicians.

TEL AVIV – Boy George shot down claims from BDS activists that his performance in Tel Aviv Tuesday night was tantamount to performing in South Africa during apartheid, saying the two weren’t comparable and that Israel was in his heart.

TEL AVIV – A top French movie producer slammed the Arab world for its sweeping “Jew hatred” after being booted from North Africa’s most prestigious film festival because of previous collaborations with Israelis.

Student leaders at the University of Ottawa rejected a motion to support boycotts of Israel on Sunday, marking the ninth consecutive defeat for the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign on Canadian campuses over the past two years.

TEL AVIV – Nick Cave and his band are the latest targets of Roger Waters bullying campaign aimed at preventing the singer from playing in “apartheid” Israel next month.

President Donald Trump has nominated the founder of a group that defends Jewish students against anti-Semitism to the post of assistant secretary for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Education Department.

TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim citizen of Israel blasts the notion that the Jewish state is an “apartheid,” saying people should be “ashamed” for using that term to describe the only country in the Middle East that provides “freedom of belief, the right to educate, to elect and be elected” to all minorities.

NEW YORK, NY — This week, progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in opposing the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), claiming the bill violates the First Amendment right to support boycotting Israel and the settlements by penalizing U.S. citizens.

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is under fire from World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder, who said he was “deeply disturbed” by her decision to withdraw her backing for anti-BDS legislation introduced by a fellow Democrat, citing the First Amendment as the basis for her choice.

Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief negotiator and a global leader in the effort to boycott Israel, is reported to be on a waiting list for a lung transplant in Israel.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) is under fire from fellow progressives for supporting bipartisan legislation that would amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the crippling boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

TEL AVIV – The World Council of Churches (WCC) officially endorsed the Palestinian “campaign for Jerusalem,” saying that Israel’s recent move installing additional security measures at the Temple Mount following a terror attack there was a “corrosive act in the midst of an already-fragile peace.”

Every now and then, former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters rises like a ghost from the depths of his own depravity to spew his blatant Jew-hatred shamelessly across the airwaves. He can’t help it.

Ireland’s president met with Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a move Israel denounced.

TEL AVIV – Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters compared the Israeli government to Nazi Germany, saying Israel was “the worst regime in the world,” during an hour-long Q&A session over the weekend led by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement leader Omar Barghouti.

The Canadian government is reeling from a foiled attempt at a boycott of Israeli wines. While they might have failed this time around, those behind this bizarre action are likely to be back.

A UN forum on the Palestinian issue on Friday provided a platform for anti-Zionist activists to promote the BDS campaign, claim that Israel practices “apartheid worse than South Africa,” and even – in the case of one Israeli Jewish speaker – proffer a formal apology for having taken up Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return.

On Thursday, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) officially became the sixth candidate — and second Republican — to announce his candidacy for California’s 2018 Democrat-heavy gubernatorial race.