BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The nonbinding text names Muslim antisemitism as a vector of Jew-hatred and calls for withholding public funding from promoters of Israel boycotts.
Anti-Israel activist organization CodePink has collected 15,000 signatures on a petition urging Trader Joe’s to remove Israeli products from its stores; Jewish community groups have launched a counter-campaign.
The move came after Amos Schocken, the publisher of the Haaretz daily, called Hamas terrorists “freedom fighters” and called for sanctions.
Coalition and opposition lawmakers agree to pass a text that acknowledges a politically inconvenient reality.
The open letter was released by the pro-Israel, California-based entertainment industry organization Creative Community for Peace.
“Brown’s mission doesn’t encompass resolving or adjudicating global conflict,” stated the university’s president and the chancellor of its governing corporation.
“Misguided” policies led London, Ottowa and Berlin to level arms embargoes against Israel, but not against Qatar or other rogue countries.
A board meeting at the public school featured the “most vile, outrageous displays of antisemitism to be witnessed at a public meeting in the United States of America in recent memory,” JFNA said.
Anti-Israel responses since Oct. 7 “go way beyond the peaceful voicing of a political opinion,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
A source told JNS that the investment advisory firm cited the “Palestine Chronicle” to give a “severe” controversy score to Caterpillar.
Sarah Friedland said, “As a Jewish American artist, I’m accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation.”
The decision was hailed as a ”success” for the anti-Israel BDS movement.
