BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The organization came under fire in 2020 for a since-deleted tweet that appeared to glorify the First Intifada.
Officials will continue giving a public platform to the anti-Israel Palestine Committee Stuttgart.
New York City Council members grow frustrated with the lack of answers, action—and absence—by the administration and its representatives.
Alyza Lewin of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law said “those who promote cooperation and coexistence vanquished those who endorse bigotry, discrimination and hate. BDS tried to stop Ben & Jerry’s from being sold in Israel. They lost.”
“While our parent company has taken this decision, we do not agree with it,” the ice-cream maker said in an official statement.
The multinational consumer-goods company is selling its interest in Ben & Jerry’s Israel to the ice-cream maker’s Israel franchisee.
Says Jewish students are ‘targets’ and ‘dismissed’ when they see ‘the writing on the wall.’
The central BDS movement tells the local group to take down the map or remove the moniker from the chapter’s name.
Marc Stern, chief legal officer for the American Jewish Committee, said “this was the first appellate test of laws that combat the BDS movement, whose primary aim is to eliminate the State of Israel. As the court noted, Arkansas has broad power to regulate economic activity, and taking a position on a boycott does not inhibit free speech.”
The bipartisan effort against anti-Semitism was led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), joined by 35 colleagues.
German Jews want Stuttgart to appeal the decision.
The company omitted Ben & Jerry’s boycott decision, made in July 2020, from its disclosures because it knew it could create significant downside for the company, according to the complaint.
