Anti-Israel Bias
Led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), 42 bipartisan members sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, calling the COI “outrageous and unjust.”
Co-sponsored by Germany—and backed by the United States, Russia and many other countries—it affirms that the Holocaust “will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice.”
Losses not directly connected to boycott • Ben & Jerry’s Israel owner Avi Zinger calls the news “a tremendous boost” • Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked: “It doesn’t pay to boycott Israel.”
U.S. Jewish organizations outraged at Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II’s “unacceptable,” “dangerous” remarks.
“This concerted effort to drive down reviews as a way to harm individuals and not a political entity is what ends up being problematic and downright anti-Semitic,” said Alexander Rosemberg, deputy regional director of the ADL NY/NJ Region. “It is absolutely wrong.”
The Netherlands found what it called a “worrisome” number of board members linked to the PFLP, in addition to the fact that two employees were arrested in connection to a bombing that killed an Israeli in 2019.
“The concern is that you have three or four different legal proceedings in which allegations of apartheid have been made and that at least one of them may end up endorsing these allegations,” Yuval Shany, professor of international law at Hebrew University and research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, told JNS.
“The government must act against anti-Semitism and the promotion of terrorist groups,” said Michael Mostyn of B’nai Brith Canada.
“Hussain Altamimi has made false, hateful, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel accusations on Instagram,” ZOA national president Morton Klein said in a letter sent to the New York legislator.
It has been found in the past that reduced linguistic input leads to reduced vocabulary in a child, even as an adult.
“The High Commissioner will say privately that she inherited this problem, but we think she had the ability to postpone the release of the blacklist. She knows it doesn’t serve any kind of positive purpose,” said former Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
A subsidiary of Unilever, Ben & Jerry’s announced in mid-July that it plans to stop selling its ice cream in “Occupied Palestinian Territories.”
