BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“If they poured all of the money they are spending on boycotts into building factories and creating jobs in the West Bank and Gaza, it would go a long way to truly helping Palestinians,” said Bassem Eid.
Professor Oded Goldreich’s attorney, Michael Sfard, pronounced the result “a wretched decision that continues the trend of criminalizing left-wing positions.”
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 2021 Federalist Society conference and included remarks by Richard Goldberg, who drafted one of the first anti-BDS laws in 2015.
“Everyone with different beliefs, with different backgrounds, with different cultures—they all come together and ... forget about politics, about your religion,” says Mexican beauty queen Andrea Meza.
The country’s Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has been trying to convince Lalela Mswane to withdraw.
The 79 organizations also asked university president Tim Sands to affirm his commitment to ensuring that “no student will be subject to unfair discrimination or harassment because of the implementation of such a boycott on campus.”
The Miss South Africa Organization responded to the online hatred, saying it is “not getting involved in a political war of words and looks forward to watching Miss SA make the country proud.”
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Ben & Jerry’s decision violated his office’s policy against the BDS movement against Israel.
“Our teachers and our children need to be taught Israel’s beauty and complexity in order to appreciate it,” said Jake Bennett, the Israeli-American Council for Action’s director of policy and legislative affairs.
The decision was announced by State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who manages the $263 million state Common Retirement Fund.
“Instead of amplifying voices of coexistence trying to effect real change on the ground, those who support a boycott are only creating more division,” said Ari Ingel, director of Creative Community for Peace.
Aviva Rosenschein, International Campus Director for CAMERA, said it was “shocking” that it would call for the boycott of all Israeli academics.
