BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
Influential figures in the industry face growing discrimination and blacklisting over their Jewish identity.
“It is unacceptable and has no place on college campuses or in our country,” the New Jersey congressman said in a statement.
They were awarded the prestigious honor despite calls for a boycott of Israel.
“We call on our community to come together in solidarity and to firmly reject all forms of bigotry and violence,” the university’s public affairs team said.
The sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has sold its shares in the Israeli telecommunications company.
Two University of Leipzig professors cited “security concerns” and claims of “racism” against the historian, a vocal opponent of Israeli control over parts of Judea and Samaria.
Bill sponsor says the movement “undermines the relationship between the U.S. and one of our strongest allies.”
The Anti-BDS Labeling Act would require all goods from the Jewish state to be labeled “made in Israel.”
The protests come on the eve of a France-Israel soccer match near Paris, which Jerusalem has warned Israelis to avoid.
The nonbinding text names Muslim antisemitism as a vector of Jew-hatred and calls for withholding public funding from promoters of Israel boycotts.
Anti-Israel activist organization CodePink has collected 15,000 signatures on a petition urging Trader Joe’s to remove Israeli products from its stores; Jewish community groups have launched a counter-campaign.
The move came after Amos Schocken, the publisher of the Haaretz daily, called Hamas terrorists “freedom fighters” and called for sanctions.
