BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“I stand against apartheid because I believe that all people deserve to live under equal rights, regardless of ethnicity or religion,” said Phara Souffrant Forrest.
“Islam’s 3rd holiest site is being used to stockpile Molotov cocktails and rocks being lobbed at police and Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall, below the Temple Mount,” Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan tweeted in response to the Michigan legislator.
Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, lauded the decision, saying “Jews returning to producing wine in their indigenous homeland is something to be celebrated, not stigmatized.”
A number of student organizations co-sponsored individual events, including Jewish Coalition for Peace.
The group said Sarah Margon will be bitterly opposed by Republicans, but also urged pro-Israel Democrats to reject her nomination.
All three legal measures were backed by Christians United for Israel, the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization.
Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs Michael Biton said “the distorted reality presented by Human Rights Watch is part of its ongoing political and obsessive campaign against Israel in recent years.”
Responding to the bill, Pomona College management released a letter expressing “deep concern” that the “vote was held without representation from any student opposition.”
The university left the names of the police brutality victims, as well as a heart drawn on the floor in the colors of the Palestinian flag.
An organization calls on the general public to avoid the show, arguing that art is being used to normalize “colonialism and repression.”
Students for Justice in Palestine co-sponsored a resolution supporting BDS activity, slated to be presented to the Undergraduate Student Government Senate on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day.
Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said the adoption of the resolution “highlights a toxic obsession with Israel to the serious detriment of the party.”
