BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
The proposed anti-BDS legislation is one of four bills combined into one: the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act.
In 2010, the Georgia State University Progressive Student Alliance and the Movement to End Israeli Apartheid-Georgia said that through joint training with Israel, Georgia police officers would learn from Israeli “extrajudicial killings, racial profiling of Arabs, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees.”
Public funds should not support “economic warfare” against Israelis and their country, Mark Brnovich tells federal court • Stance could mark first time a U.S. government body has formally acknowledged that the BDS movement aids actors engaged in terror.
![At the United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod in Cleveland in 2017, Rev. Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian Christian and pastor of the evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, called the UCC's resolution to divest from Israel "a strong signal that [Palestinians] are not alone, and that there are churches who still dare to speak truth to power and stand with the oppressed.” Credit: United Church of Christ/Flickr.](https://static.jns.org/dims4/default/78a9429/2147483647/strip/true/crop/500x281+0+26/resize/500x281!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F12%2Fdownload-10-3.jpg)
CAMERA’s Dexter Van Zile started snooping around the investment portfolio of the church’s retirement fund. He says the records show that the church is being dishonest with the public about its ethics and business practices.
Amid reports the London-based international financial giant HSBC bank will divest from Israeli defense contractor Elbit, the former said that the move is due to a company policy not to invest in firms that produce cluster munitions.
Buzzfeed reporter Hannah Allam posted on Twitter, “Someone has already made a slight alteration to the map that hangs in Rashida Tlaib’s new congressional office.”
In a move cheered by BDS supporters, the London-based international financial giant HSBC bank has said it will divest from Israeli defense contractor Elbit.
The Center for Combating Hate in America (C4CHA) will serve as an active watchdog group, as well as a resource to fight hatred and violence nationwide.
“Fundraising is oxygen to terrorists; we will use every legal way possible to choke off every platform they use to raise funds,” said Shurat HaDin president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.
Strategic Affairs Minister Erdan asks the European Union to examine whether funds transferred to NGOs in the Israeli-Palestinian arena are used for their intended purposes.
“We want the people in Gaza to have jobs—real jobs—because where there is prosperity, there can be peace,” said Daniel Birnbaum at the Globes Conference in Jerusalem, without going into detail.
Delegation led by vice president of short-term rental firm visits Samaria after vowing to delist rentals over opposition to Jewish settlements • Airbnb denies change of heart, as was earlier reported.
