BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The Cairo Declaration calls for a boycott of Israel, accusing the Jewish state of perpetrating “apartheid” and robbing Palestinian land with the help of America’s “unlimited support to the Zionist perpetrators of genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people.”
The court agreed to the delay after Human Rights Watch Israel/Palestine director Omar Shakir’s attorney argued that a new government coalition might interpret Israel’s 2017 anti-BDS law differently.
The Nelly Sachs Prize, given every two years by the German city of Dortmund, is worth €15,000 ($16,500), and awarded to writers who promote “tolerance and reconciliation,” and improve cultural relations.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign blamed his inability to enter the United Kingdom on “growing efforts by Israel and its allies to suppress Palestinian voices and the movements for Palestinian rights.”
“It degrades the brand even more that it took three years to find someone even more anti-Semitic and vehemently anti-Zionist,” said Nisi Jacobs, founder and CEO of WoMen Fight AntiSemitism.
The event “Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities” reportedly used $5,000 of federal taxpayer funds from the U.S. Education Department.
“On U.S. campuses across the country, harassment motivated by classical anti-Semitism actually decreased, and significantly so. At the same time, however, the number of Israel-related acts of harassment increased significantly,” wrote the report’s researchers.
Simon Coveney, Ireland’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, opposes the legislation, fearing it would reduce regional Irish influence.
The movement told the outlet that the three would “transition off of the Women’s March Board and onto other projects focused on advocacy within their respective organizations.”
He plans to discuss “British state and non-state actors” using “a variety of methods to suppress the democratic mobilizing of those working for progressive causes.”
“All too often, the topic of Israel is sloganized and simplified; people fail to see the nuances that exist,” said Caravan for Democracy participant and Hofstra University student Deandra Denton.
The law was narrowed in May as Gov. Greg Abbott signed an updated version of it, exempting individuals and smaller companies, specifically those with less than 10 full-time employees or valued under $100,000.
