More than 70 Harvard faculty members have signed a letter decrying the U.S. and Israel’s “criminalization” of the Palestinians’ “right to resist,” and called on the Biden administration to end support for “Israel’s apartheid regime, condemn Israeli state aggression, and affirm our support for the Palestinian liberation struggle.”
It didn’t take long for Jewish and Israel-related groups to react to the appointment of anti-Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Pro-Israel groups will erect a giant Pinocchio effigy across from the United Nations headquarters in New York City in protest of the recent resolutions passed by its cultural body, UNESCO, which deny Jewish and Christian connections to Jerusalem.
Outrage over UNESCO’s approval on Thursday of a resolution that omitted the Jewish people’s ties with Jerusalem continued to grow over the weekend.
TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee has launched a campaign to procure signatures of all 50 state governors on a petition to divest from companies engaged in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside of a peace festival featuring Jewish and Arab Israeli performers in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday, calling out to those entering the venue, “Your tickets are covered in Palestinian blood.”
TEL AVIV – A United Nations ban on an Israeli exhibit at the organization’s headquarters in New York has finally been lifted in its entirety after Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon’s petitioned Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to reverse what he termed the “scandalous” decision.
The Times of Israel reports: It’s time the world — and Jews themselves — identify the People of the Book as indigenous people. At least, that’s the opinion of indigenous rights activist Ryan Bellerose of Alberta, Canada. He recently returned from his second trip to the Holy Land where he filmed a video supporting the concept for the Israeli advocacy group StandWithUs.
The Times of Israel reports: The United Nations has censored an exhibition about Israel set to go on display at the organization’s headquarters in New York. Three of the 13 panels in the exhibition “Israel Matters,” which is set to open
TEL AVIV – The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday will debate a resolution that calls on member states to boycott Jewish settlements, the Jerusalem Post reported. The UNHRC is often charged with having an extreme anti-Israel bias. The resolution would
TEL AVIV – An inflatable 15-foot Pinocchio doll, designed to “draw attention to the lies of Israel Apartheid Week,” was placed by pro-Israel groups in front of a mock replica of the country’s security barrier at Columbia University last week, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Arutz Sheva reports: Roseanne Barr, the famous American comedian and actress, has recently become a leading advocate of Israel, and on Saturday night she revealed she may be moving to the Jewish state. Speaking before around 200 Jewish supporters at
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.
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.
