BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“This is just another example of old-fashioned Jew-hatred using a modern platform,” said Steven Rosenberg, publisher and editor of the “Jewish Journal” of Greater Boston.
#Africa4Palestine threatened Bieber with a serious backlash if his performance goes on as planned.
Report: “The videos are part of what the ice-cream company dubbed ‘Scooper Series: Social Mission.’ ”
Barby, the venue where the shows were to be performed, hit back at Big Thief with an angry message posted on Facebook, noting that the band has previously played in Israel.
In a letter, they asked New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to make good on her November threat to Ben & Jerry’s, and its parent company Unilever, to a list of companies from which the state must divest.
Anti-Israel activists claimed victory after the company sold its stake in a Jerusalem factory, but the decision was pure business, it says.
Trian Fund Management LP, an investment firm of billionaire Nelson Peltz, acquired a 1.5% stake in the company for $1.6 billion this year.
Survey shows opinions on Israelis and Palestinians differ vastly along the American political divide.
University officials had condemned the measure, saying it was not a reflection of the views of the school administration.
Boycotts erode “community cohesion” and “overwhelmingly target lsrael,” contributing to the “horrific rise in anti-Semitism in the U.K.,” according to a government summary of the bill.
They raised concerns about the effect of the BDS endorsement on the “well-being of Jewish and Zionist students at Harvard, some of whom have already reported that they have become alienated from the newspaper on account of the inhospitable culture that prevails there.”
“Does the editorial board believe Israel even has a right to exist? Because, if so, that line is coincidentally missing,” says Natalie Kahn, a student journalist and the president of Harvard’s Hillel.
