BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The Israel Gymnastics Federation said it will challenge the “outrageous decision.”
Hundreds of thousands in Amsterdam called on the Dutch government to take harsher measures against Israel to stop the war in Gaza.
The European branches of some of the biggest American companies are headquartered in Ireland, rendering it susceptible to U.S. pressure.
“Holding a vote that seeks to demonize the Jewish homeland on a day when Jewish students will not be able to participate is exclusionary, biased and flat-out wrong,” Maryland Hillel stated.
“We much prefer to see their work on the screen, and not them in court,” stated Rory Lancman, senior counsel of the Brandeis Center.
A vote by UEFA to ban Israel was expected but is now on hold following U.S. President Donald Trump’s unveiling of a new Israel-Hamas peace plan.
David Lappartient said that “peace does not come through exclusion,” a day before the Israeli cycling team was banned from an Italian competition.
Leo Terrell, who chairs the U.S. Justice Department’s task force on Jew-hatred, said the anti-Israel student group is forcing Jews to “choose between defending their Zionist identities or observing their religion.”
The $24 billion pension manager’s divestment follows a narrower boycott by Norway’s larger wealth fund.
The Jewish state’s embassy in Berlin decries what feels like a return to the 1930s.
“We dodged protests erupting on campus, urging students to vote a certain way,” Joel Harris, a UConn student senator, told JNS.
The lawmakers also said that the frontrunner to be New York City mayor is wrong to support boycotting Israel.
