Pro-Palestinian activists and members of the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday continuously disrupted a hearing held by the New York City Council Committee on Contracts on a resolution that condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the state of Israel.
A popular Broadway cabaret club has canceled a concert benefiting Black Lives Matter, citing the movement’s criticism of Israel.
TEL AVIV – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement doesn’t want “a better Israel, they want no Israel at all,” one of the world’s leading Holocaust experts told a London audience on Tuesday night.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called for the end of Israeli settlements and defended Holland’s labeling of Israeli produce from the West Bank during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s embassy in Berlin lambasted the city of Oldenburg teachers union over a call to completely boycott the Jewish state in the first such incident since the Holocaust, the Jerusalem Post reported.
University of California Los Angeles law student Milan Chatterjee, the former president of the school’s Graduate Student Association (GSA), revealed that he is leaving for New York University because of discrimination, bullying and harassment by anti-Israel students at the publicly-funded California school.
NEW YORK – Although her new dorm is only a half an hour ride away from her family’s home, for 18-year-old Stacy Vaknin, going away to college is quite life-changing.
California’s State Assembly has voted nearly unanimously, save one vote in both the State Assembly and Senate, to send the Golden State’s first-ever anti-“boycott, divestment and sanctions “(BDS) bill to Gov. Jerry Brown, who will need to decide whether to sign or veto it by September’s end.
Last Shabbat morning I spoke in the Nitzanim Synagogue in Jerusalem, delivering the morning sermon. Five days after my daughter’s wedding, I was in high spirits but delivered a somewhat ominous message.
Comedian and former presidential candidate Roseanne Barr blasted “Jew hater” Hillary Clinton and her “filthy Nazi” advisors on social media this week, arguing that if Clinton were to win the presidency in November, it would mean the “death of Israel.”
Israelis along with Germans launched the Action Forum group, which included a protest against BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activists targeting Jewish state products in front of a Berlin department store on Thursday.
ACOM, an Israel lobby group working to combat BDS in Spain, successfully overturned a boycott decision passed by the city council of Vélez-Málaga in the Costa del Sol region this week.
TEL AVIV – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed self-declared “progressives” who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, saying that such outright rejection is not in line with progressive ideals.
TEL AVIV – The co-author of the new Movement for Black Lives platform that accuses Israel of “genocide” defended his decision to use the term in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
TEL AVIV – The mayor of Atlanta rejected outright a demand by Black Lives Matter protestors to terminate the local police force’s joint training exercises with “Apartheid Israel” police.
Defense Minister and Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman met today with Michael Gross, a British Jewish philanthropist, who canceled a significant donation to Ben Gurion University because of it hosted a conference supporting BDS organizations.
TEL AVIV – Legendary multi-Grammy-award winning guitarist Carlos Santana snubs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to perform in Tel Aviv at the end of this month after 29 since his last concert in Israel.
TEL AVIV – Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren denounced the boycott movement and said she is a “believer” in Israel while visiting Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Iconic British rock band Queen are the latest musicians to tell the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement where to shove it by announcing their debut performance in Tel Aviv with Adam Lambert as lead singer.
Despite a persistent downpour of rain some 30,000 people marched through New York on Sunday in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade. Hosted by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the parade, which featured floats with dancers, bands, and performers, made its way through Manhattan from 52nd Street to 74th Street.
NEW YORK – Some 1,500 pro-Israel activists, students, and representatives of Jewish organizations among others attended the largest gathering to date against the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, hosted by the Permanent Israeli mission to the United Nations at the UN Headquarters.
TEL AVIV – More than 150 professors at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, signed an open letter condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) movement, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The Jerusalem Post reports: 20 Israeli academic have encouraged the American Anthropological Association to boycott Israeli higher academic institutions, according to a report released Thursday by the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization.
TEL AVIV – A Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended annulling a municipality’s motion calling for a boycott against Israel and declaring itself “a space free of Israeli apartheid,” The Times of Israel reported.
TEL AVIV – South African rap duo, Die Antwoord, is being pressured by the boycott Israel movement to cancel its upcoming concert in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.
TEL AVIV – The Lebanese capital of Beirut will host a symposium Friday for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.
LOS ANGELES — A classically-trained pianist, composer and piano teacher from Los Angeles has created a mash-up of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, in honor of the Jewish State’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, known as “Yom Ha’atzmaut” or Israeli Independence Day.
TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton reiterated her position that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was an impediment to peace, ahead of her Methodist church’s bid to join the Israel boycott, The Times of Israel reported.
Ynetnews reports: It has recently come out that the Directorate for the Fight against BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) will move its offices from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
JAFFA, Israel – The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign in the United States has been a major success with many hitherto unaffiliated populations signing up for the anti-Israel cause, a top Palestinian journalist reported.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Anti-Israel graffiti defacing the campus of a British university with vulgar slogans was being removed after the Jewish state’s new ambassador to the United Kingdom paid a visit to the London campus earlier this week, The
Anti-Israel activists prevented Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat from addressing an audience at San Francisco State University on Wednesday.
Arutz Sheva reports: British charity War on Want denied on Sunday reports that the British government had cut off its funding to the group due to the fact that it had been fundamentally transformed from an anti-poverty charity into a
A first-of-its-kind bill opposing boycotts of Israel, introduced by Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach), has been held up in California’s Democratic-controlled state legislature for nearly three months. Now, the state’s Jewish Caucus has introduced a highly similar bill by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica).
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said on Monday that he may revoke the residency status of Omar Barghouti, founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. “The revoking of citizenship or residency is a tool that is hardly ever
TEL AVIV – Jewish comedian Roseanne Barr slammed members of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as “right-wing fascists” and “naked bigots” who only pretend to be leftwing. “BDS doesn’t want peace, nor do they want peace negotiations. They use code words
The Jerusalem Post reports: Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the best way to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, US and EU ambassadors said on Monday at a conference on the subject in Jerusalem sponsored by the Hebrew daily
TEL AVIV – Despite the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s best efforts, a star-studded lineup of musicians are refusing to give in to the pressure not to perform in Israel. For the first time ever, rock icon Alice Cooper will perform
TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to bar companies from doing business with the state if they boycott Israel or its settlements, the Jerusalem Post reported. The Illinois Investment Policy board on Friday
The Jerusalem Post reports: TORONTO – More stickers advising consumers not to purchase products made in Israel are popping up across Canada. Facebook posts now show the stickers on Sabra hummus, Keter and SodaStream products, Glutino biscuits, dates and tangerines
