The Times of Israel reports: Israel’s relations with the European Union are “close and friendly” again, Jerusalem said Friday, signaling a receding of tensions that arose last year over the EU decision to label imports from West Bank settlements. Foreign
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel’s exports to the United Kingdom doubled since London imposed a voluntary labeling scheme on products from the settlements, rendering hollow concern that labeling is the beginning of a boycott, British Ambassador David Quarrey said on Thursday.
Pink Floyd front man and notorious anti-Israel activist Roger Waters published an open letter slamming a Jewish businessman for pulling financial support from a Canadian university over a mural that has sparked controversy for depicting what critics see as anti-Semitic
TEL AVIV – A new bill introduced in Congress Wednesday supports the rights of U.S. states to cut ties with companies that are engaged in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Lawmakers from both houses of Congress presented the
Jennifer Lopez is facing a fierce Twitter backlash over her plan to perform in Israel this summer with pro-Palestinian activists attacking her on social media and demanding she cancel her concert tour.
The violent anti-Israel protesters who disrupted an Israel Society event at King’s College, London last month have been banned from the campus after it was concluded they “crossed the line” in carrying out their demonstration. As Breitbart London reported, the event
TEL AVIV – Anti-Israel students at an exclusive NY college proposed a ban on the consumption of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream due to the ice scream mavens’ supposed support of apartheid via its “contractual relationship with an Israeli franchise.”
The Jerusalem Post reports: One of Israel’s harshest critics took to the airwaves earlier this week and denounced attempts to impose a cultural and arts boycotts against the Jewish state. Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and scholar, told Al Jazeera
TEL AVIV – A New York City food coop has adopted new measures that make it more difficult for members to pass boycott resolutions against Israeli products, the Times of Israel reported. Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop, which had previously
TEL AVIV – Diplomatic cables from Israeli embassies all over the world indicate that the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is gaining significant momentum, the Jerusalem Post reported. A number of diplomatic cables sent to Israel’s
TEL AVIV – Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that the UN is a breeding ground for anti-Semitism. His remarks followed the release of a poll which showed that a quarter of Israelis fear another Holocaust in addition to harboring
HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Israeli anthropologist Dan Rabinowitz is a leader in his field, heading a prestigious school of environmental studies at Tel Aviv University, authoring dozens of publications and holding visiting teaching positions over the years at leading North
The U.S. reissued guidelines on labeling settlement products amid Palestinian disgruntlement, even though the State Department maintains that there have been no changes to U.S. policy. Following Palestinian complaints that some West Bank products were being labeled “Made in Israel,”
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel will invest more in technology enabling it to gather intelligence on social media about potential “lone wolf” terrorists, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday. Erdan was speaking at a session at the third annual
An official Israeli government report into global anti-Semitism published Sunday shows more than 40 per cent of European Union citizens hold anti-Semitic views, with “Islamic elements” prominent in its creation. The Annual Evaluation of the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism was presented to
All campaigns to boycott Israeli products have been condemned by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has accused activists of creating a “campaign of hatred” inside France. “I tell you here clearly: we condemn all campaigns of boycott against Israeli products,” he
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
On Tuesday, Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), accusing the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) of violating the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik, has voted to enact a city wide boycott on all Israeli goods in support of the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanction movement. The 15-strong council also urged individuals to boycott Israel “as long as the occupation of
A Jewish organisation dedicated to opposing the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is seeking to take Leicester City Council to court over its recent decision to boycott Israel. The organisation has accused the council of anti-Semitism, likening the
Jewish hip-hop artist Matisyahu has been dropped from the lineup of a Spanish music festival because the festival supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel. But Matisyahu is Jewish, not Israeli. Instead, he hails from America, which
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
This weekend, two staunchly opposing groups, Stand With Us and J-Street, will hold conferences on opposite coasts, setting opposing agendas for U.S.-relations at a time when those relations are in danger of taking a turn for the worse.
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.
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.
