BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The vote occurred just months after students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a referendum calling on the school to separate itself from companies that conduct business with the State of Israel.
Phillip Agnew (now Umi Selah) has participated in trips to the disputed territories led by Ahmad Abuznaid, a supporter of the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, to “build real relationships with those on the ground leading the fight for liberation.”
Lee Bollinger also said “it’s wrong” for Jews to be targeted by anti-Semitism, stressing that Columbia is not “an ‘anti-Semitic’ institution.”
“Why would they help promote the idea of someone who has spoken in such ugly terms about American Jews and the victims of Islamist violence? It’s unbelievable!” exclaimed CAMERA researcher Dexter Van Zile.
Lawmakers defeated consideration of the bill by a tally of 219-194.
The bill, which passed 75-20, would apply to state contacts that are more than $100,000.
Nadav David is one of CJP’s 2020 “Chai in the Hub” honorees, recognizing young adults who are “doing amazing things personally and professionally to better Greater Boston’s Jewish community.”
Former Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky, U.S. attorney Alan Dershowitz and Knesset members recently sat down in Jerusalem for a roundtable talk on how to combat the “rhetorical assault” on the Jewish state.
The 15th annual TLVFest, a Tel Aviv government-sponsored festival, is set to take place from June 4 to June 13.
“A curriculum based on a narrowly focused and politicized approach consciously and erroneously divides Californians into ‘people of color,’ on the one hand, and all other supposedly ethnic and non-ethnic whites, on the other,” wrote the groups.
It condemns the BDS movement as anti-Semitic and calls on the Austrian federal government to withhold federal funds from and avoid cooperation with organizations tied to the BDS movement.
Marie Newman, running in a primary against incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, lost to him by less than 3 percentage points in the 2018 Democratic primary.
