Anti-Israel Bias
“Many students have also witnessed hostile anti-Semitic tropes and rhetoric associated with aggressive BDS tactics here,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).
Seventeen colleges brought BDS measures up for a vote by the student government in 2020-21, and 11 have passed them.
Michael Levitt, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, said members understood “that censure would set a chilling precedent and impact trustees’ abilities to stand up to hate and discrimination.”
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Limited will no longer audit the Union of Agricultural Work Committees or Defense for Children International Palestine.
Attorney generals from 12 U.S. states wrote to Unilever CEO Alan Jope expressing their concern over the company’s refusal to sell its products to Judea and Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem.
The Arabofolies festival organized by the Institut du Monde Arabe in France is being held through Dec. 12.
A United Nations office’s description of a recent terror victim as a “settler” raises difficult questions regarding the international body’s motives, says Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan.
Since 2015, the U.N. General Assembly has passed 115 resolutions condemning Israel and only 45 against other countries.
“We apologize for the distress that our miscommunication has caused the Jewish community on campus, and we understand their concerns,” said the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union.
“I think it is an embarrassment to society,” said Rabbi Nechemia Deitsch, director of Chabad of Midtown in Toronto, which services the student population. “The fact that there is this hatred in the air is due completely to a lack of education.”
“Unilever is a widely held company with a current market capitalization of $135 billion, which places in jeopardy the manifold institutions, pension funds and endowments [that] hold its shares on behalf of its beneficiaries,” said a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
World Squash Federation president Zena Wooldridge says measures have been put in place “to prevent this kind of situation reoccurring.”
