BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
It outlines five basic rights that students should be entitled to at their schools: (1) free expression of their Jewish identity; (2) a fair education; (3) a safe learning environment; (4) a comprehensive definition of anti-Semitism; and (5) fair protections.
One of them urges taking “short- and long-term action to ensure that the university is a just, fair and welcoming place for all students, but more specifically, for Arab and Muslim students.”
A new report from the self-described human-rights group accused the Israeli government of such policy—the first time that the left-wing organization has used the heavily loaded term.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) says the Jewish state “has no intention” of helping Palestinian Arabs overcome the coronavirus pandemic, and that the United States is “enabling” them to do so.
Over the past year, the university has experienced both positive and negative developments surrounding anti-Semitism.
“I would urge college and university stakeholders to pay special attention to the way in which schools handle the harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students, and whether it’s consistent with how they treat all other students on campus,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and director of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said it would “exclude” those in the United Arab Emirates from its call to ban Israeli economic and diplomatic partnerships.
The aim is apparently to form a united front against the Iranian threat.
The French Development Agency focuses on “on climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urban development, health and governance.”
From the “weaponization” of COVID-19 against Jews to tweets by Iran’s Supreme Leader, there were no shortage of candidates, says Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
The Zachor Legal Institute identifies several domestic organizations tied to BDS, among them Jewish Voice for Peace, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, IfNotNow and American Muslims for Palestine.
Adam Milstein stressed that the enemies of Jews “are the enemies of America, the enemies of the Western world, and the sooner everyone else understands that, the better.”
