BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
Equiping a cadre of students with debating tools, historical information, legal support, trips to Israel and more, so that Israel has a place on the university playing fields.
A 2009 Tweet reveals that Garlin Gilchrist, the running mate of Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer, wrote: “I‘m suck [sic] of politicians and Evangelicals kissing Israel‘s ass regardless of what they do in the name of ‘defense.’ ”
Anti-Israel activists organize protests outside concert venues in Peru, Argentina and Brazil. In Santiago, BDS members put up posters of conductor Yeruham Scharovsky spattered in blood.
Tufts Friends of Israel group says the class violates a statement by the Office of the President that reads, “While members of our community vigorously debate international politics, Tufts University does not adopt institutional positions with respect to specific geo-political issues.”
The South American nation is under fire for not responding to a poster showing blood dripping from the conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
Imtiaz Mohammad is running against Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz because of the state legislator’s sponsorship of an anti-BDS bill that became law in 2016.
Israel inaugurated a new medical school on Sunday, the sixth medical school in Israel, and the first in Judea and Samaria.
“If Catholic students were told they had to disavow the Vatican before they could engage with other members of the student body, everyone would agree that it would be blatant discrimination. This is no different,” said Alyza Lewin, president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
The Massachusetts university’s “academic reputation is on the line here,” says Liel Asulin, campus coordinator with CAMERA on Campus.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn attended 2012 Qatar conference with Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, in addition to terrorist leaders behind Jerusalem pizzeria and Tel Aviv nightclub attacks that killed dozens of Israelis in 2001, reports “The Telegraph.”
“How can [J Street] continue billing itself as a pro-Israel organization when it is backing a congressional candidate who has pledged to vote against U.S. military aid to Israel when she gets to Congress?” the National Council of Young Israel questioned in a statement.
A four-day conference run by CAMERA in Boston teaches tools of activism, using words, facts, patience and plain-old courage to combat the scourge of anti-Israel sentiment on campus.
