BDS Movement
News about economic and academic attacks against the Jewish state
“We have zero tolerance for any anti-Israel bias,” Ari Hoffnung, managing director of JLens and a senior ADL adviser, told JNS.
“It is a complex area that’s extremely difficult to get right,” Morningstar told JNS, of its prior downgraded ratings of companies operating in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
“If states like Florida, New Jersey or New York now open their own investigations, the remaining BDS controversies would magically disappear soon too,” Richard Goldberg, of FDD, told JNS.
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.
