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BDS Movement

News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state

The Dec. 8 tweet featured a poster stating “where there is oppression, may there thrive resistance” and described the First Intifada as “a series of mass protests against Israeli settler-colonialism and occupation.”
Aside from government-funding issues, the purpose behind the list is to issue a “public condemnation” of the anti-Israel movement.
The Norwegian government says it has “neither the right nor the duty” to prohibit Egencia, a subsidiary of blacklisted company Expedia, from providing services inside Norway.
The U.S. Secretary of State has instructed the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism “to identify organizations that engage in, or otherwise support, the Global BDS Campaign.”
“This resolution has had a real and negative impact on our students’ wellness and experience of their campus,” said San Francisco Hillel executive director Rachel Nilson Ralston.
Incumbent Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and progressive Cori Bush in Missouri won their respective congressional races, as did Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia.
Palestine Action is seeking to raise 10,000 pounds to “support direct action against Israeli apartheid.”
Noor Fawzy, a civil-litigation attorney, has an anti-Israel history that includes being the president of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Florida Atlantic University
In their eagerness to stand in full solidarity with BLM, some Jewish organizations and publications have urged Jews to put aside their concerns about its anti-Israel pronouncements and support for BDS.
The Oct. 23 event, “We Will Not Be Silenced: The Case of Khaled and Solidarity from Hawaii to Palestine,” will take place via Zoom.
“Simply put, there are no values advanced by giving her a forum to express her hateful and false views,” wrote the American Jewish Committee.
The Oct. 6-8 event was titled “Boycott & Safe Protesting 101.”