BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
Anti-Semitism “has contributed to the sense of siege felt by many Jewish college students. This is unacceptable and must change,” said ADL national president and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, signed the legislation on May 22.
George Washington University provost Brian Blake also stated that “the university does not tolerate discrimination in any form, including anti-Semitism and racism.”
Mià Bahr, a rising junior, said that while she regrets her phrasing, she will “continue to stand firm” on her ideas.
They said any boycott of Israeli companies based in Judea and Samaria would actually harm the Palestinian workers Norway wants to help.
Executive director of the Zionist Advocacy Center David Abrams said “the case is important because it emphasizes that boycotts of Israel and Israelis are illegal under American laws. To be sure, organizations have the right to criticize Israeli policies.”
The appointment of Ilana Feldman came under fire from members of the pro-Israel community, including the student group GW for Israel.
The European Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, B’nai B’rith and Simon Wiesenthal Center spoke out against the course.
The online initiative was likened to “a Nazi lecturing against racism or a member of the Ku Klux Klan speaking on racial persecution.”
The legislation would prohibit 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.
Ilana Feldman has a record of delegitimizing the Jewish state as an activist in the anti-Israel BDS movement with some of her academic work glossing over Palestinian terrorism.
In a letter to the German chancellor, interior minister and foreign minister, 37 academics accuse German “anti-Semitism czar” Felix Klein of “weaponizing” anti-Semitism against critics of Israel.
