BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“We are glad to see a recognition by Belfast City Council that it would be illegal to boycott Israelis or Israeli businesses,” said U.K. Lawyers for Israel chief executive Jonathan Turner. “We will remain vigilant to resist other attempts to discriminate against Israelis.”
Hadash-Ta’al Party Knesset member Yousef Jabareen calls for “mass mobilization” against “apartheid” Israel.
The measure states its objection over “efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.”
This year’s meeting in Jerusalem hosted 350 pro-Israel and Jewish leaders and activists from 40 countries, with the goal of strengthening and consolidating the global pro-Israel advocacy network.
Kelly Craft said “there’s no place” for the United Nations to establish a blacklist of businesses that work with or are in Israel, an effort by some to further the anti-Israel BDS movement.
“The ongoing decades-old long demonization and dehumanization of the Jewish state has been misunderstood as political criticism when in truth, it has been the new virulent form of anti-Semitism,” said Dan Diker, a fellow and senior project director at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
It comes at a crucial time in American history as the college campuses these youngsters will soon walk onto become increasingly hostile to the Jewish state, and sometimes, even to Jews.
“A film like this only fuels ill will against the Jewish people,” said StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein.
“There is no parallel in the world to this phenomenon of hypocrisy and ingratitude, in which these professors earn their living at the expense of the Israeli taxpayer yet at the same time work to boycott and slander them,” said Matan Peleg, CEO of Israeli NGO Im Tirtzu.
According to Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, a two-year campaign aimed at exposing the connections between anti-Israel groups and terrorist organizations is starting to show results.
After opposing the version that passed as part of a bigger bill in the Senate in February, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker came out in support of the current version of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act.
He disagreed with a claim by a reporter who noted increasing anti-Semitism “on the left in the BDS movement and around the world.”
