BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“This is another important step to assist Israeli advocacy in the world,” said Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan.
The Nov. 12 event, “Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS and Pro-Palestinian Speech,” is slated to include speakers with histories of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Human Rights Watch Israel director Omar Shakir must now leave the country within 20 days, after justices uphold earlier ruling finding him guilty of promoting BDS.
“As the BDS movement has become more established over time, anti-Israel tactics have become increasingly hostile as Israel’s detractors double down on efforts to make campuses inhospitable to Jews and Zionists,” according to the report.
The National Students for Justice in Palestine is holding its conference from Nov. 1-3 at the University of Minnesota.
“Would university administrators permit the KKK to have a national conference on campus? Why then are we allowing an ideology of hate that targets specific groups to influence our universities?” asked Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy executive director Charles Asher Small.
Team co-owner Larry Tanenbaum said, “I find it curious that anti-Israel activists are taking credit for our scheduling challenges ... legitimate questions can be raised about the intentions of a group that is attempting to sow division through sport.”
Attendees of the heated debate in New Jersey were, according to different descriptions, between two-thirds and one-half in favor of the resolution, which would have condemned anti-Semitism and included the BDS movement as just one an example.
“This type of boycott is rooted in anti-Semitism and is in clear violation of Spanish law,” according to The Lawfare Project.
Amer Zahr has expressed support for Zahra Billoo, who resigned from the Women’s March board for her history of making anti-Semitic remarks, including applauding Hamas’s terrorist attacks against Israel.
It calls in part on the government not to fund pro-BDS and anti-Semitic groups, in addition to providing increased protection for people and institutions that could be targeted for anti-Semitic attacks.
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Michael Lynk called on the U.N. to use the “tangible and plentiful legal and political tools at its disposal to end the injustice” of Israel’s “illegal occupation.”
