Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company on Monday announced its plan to boycott Jewish settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, or what it termed “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” in a move that sparked outrage.
ZOA President Morton A. Klein and Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. defended Israel’s decision not to allow Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to visit.
TEL AVIV – The President of California’s Pitzer College said he ignore a motion voted on by staff last week in favor of suspending a study abroad program in Israel.
Former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has joined Palestinian performers Trio Joubran to record a song attacking Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embasssy from Tel Aviv accordingly.
The student group J Street U is co-hosting a screening at Macalester College on Thursday evening of a film that has been criticized for demonizing Israel and whitewashing Palestinian terrorism, and features leading proponents of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign.
Britons now feel more favourably towards Israel than at any point since 2010, a new poll reveals, while public support for boycotts of the Jewish State is slipping accordingly.
NEW YORK — Addressing the phenomenon of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the Jewish state, Dani Dayan, the Consul General of Israel in New York, declared that the “real war” is the intimidation, disruption and attempted silencing of pro-Israel voices on U.S. college campuses.
JERUSALEM – The Knesset is slated to vote on Monday on a bill that would ban entry into the country of supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and other individuals calling for boycotts of the Jewish state or of products made in West Bank settlements.
At the behest of the Palestinian Authority, Egypt on Thursday introduced a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Israel halt all settlement activity, meaning Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Attempts by universities to divest from Israel “should be met with a similar counter response from alumni and donors,” internationally acclaimed attorney Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Thursday.
