BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
Biden campaign senior advisor Symone Sanders told JNS: “We continue to reject the views that Linda Sarsour has expressed.”
It also said: “We believe that while Jerusalem is a matter for final-status negotiations, it should remain the capital of Israel, an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.”
Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, told CNN that the political activist “has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever.”
Even though her semester will be online this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic, pro-Israel student and CAMERA Fellow Sophie Sklar of McGill University says she will “be writing as much as ever and fighting as much as ever for this cause I care so deeply about.”
Michigan state Rep. Abdullah Hammoud called laws to combat BDS a “complete and unilateral infringement” on First Amendment rights.
Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem summons Belgian ambassador over NGO funding reportedly coordinated with the Palestinian government and groups with terror links.
While the U.N. database has no legal teeth, nevertheless, it is a blatant attempt to harm companies maintaining commercial relations in the territories, and in so doing, to harm Israel.
“The materials fail to adequately discuss anti-Semitism—and characterize American Jews only in the context of how some have secured white privilege, which is misleading and erases the experience of a significant part of our community, including Middle Eastern and North African Jews, as well of other Jews of Color,” said Sarah Levin, executive director of JIMENA.
Cori Bush won 48.9 percent of the vote, while Rep. Lacy Clay, who has been in Congress since 2001, received 45.5 percent.
“We are at our worst when we attack one another,” they wrote in a letter that denounced all forms of hate speech.
The Defense for Children International-Palestine has been linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated a terror group by the United States and European Union.
The legislation prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from entering into contracts worth more than $100,000 with companies with 10 or more employees that engage in BDS.
