BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The Im Tirtzu findings contradict NIF claims to donors that “it will not support organizations that call for and support a comprehensive boycott of the State of Israel.”
Twelve of the filmmakers touted by the streaming giant signed an open letter calling for international action against Israeli “apartheid” and “crime[s] against humanity,” according to Israeli NGO Im Tirtzu.
BDS groups, activists likely behind campaign targeting Google, Amazon to cancel contract with Israel
It “appears to be another attempt by terror-backed anti-Semitic groups operating under the BDS banner to undermine the only free and inclusive country in the Middle East,” Marc Greendorfer, founder of the Zachor Legal Institute, told JNS.
“This is about arrogance and irresponsibility, enabling the odious anti-Semitic BDS movement to brand Jews as occupiers in their own land,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Hundreds of the tech giants’ employees have signed a public letter demanding that the companies cancel Project Nimbus, a multi-year contract to supply cloud services to the Israeli government and military.
“The translation rights to my new novel are still available; if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement’s institutional boycott guidelines, I will be proud to do so,” she said.
“Demanding from Israel what is demanded from no other country is the definition of anti-Semitism,” says Gilad Erdan.
Charles Jacobs, president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, said ethnic-studies and racial-justice curricula as constructed are “poisonous to American society; they promote tribalism and racism.”
Under Chapter 808, state law prohibits companies from refusing, terminating business or taking “any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on or limit commercial relations” with Israel.
“Upon final determination, no pension fund assets may be invested in the company, and DOI shall take appropriate action to sell or divest any existing pension fund investments,” said New Jersey’s director of the Division of Investment Shoaib Khan.
“The BDS movement goes beyond protection for Palestinians; it calls for death to Israel. I don’t know if you can have a conversation with someone when the opening salvo is you need to die,” said one of the Jewish speakers.
Four local rabbis ask: “Why would Burlington support such a movement? Why would Burlington choose to be the only city in the country that demonizes Israel?”
