Posts Tagged: BDS movement
European Diplomats Attend Knesset Meeting on Rising Antisemitism, Including on US Campuses
European diplomats attended a discussion at the Israeli parliament on Monday addressing concerns about rising antisemitism worldwide -- including on American college campuses. Envoys from Germany,...
Wisconsin Becomes 24th US State to Bar or Condemn Anti-Israel BDS Movement
JNS.org - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker issued an executive order last Friday to ban state agencies from engaging with businesses with ties to the anti-Israel BDS...
Maryland Governor Signs Order to Block Boycotts of Israel
JNS.org - Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed an executive order on Monday that blocks his state from awarding contracts to companies that support the anti-Israel BDS...
UN Is No Longer Home Court of the Palestinians, Israeli Envoy Says
Israel’s situation at the United Nations is slowly improving, the Jewish state’s envoy to the global intergovernmental body said in an interview published by the...
Pro-Israel University of Maryland Professor Dismissed After Complaining of Religious Discrimination Plans Legal Action
A Jewish professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) who was dismissed months after complaining of facing religious discrimination plans to pursue legal action against...
Israeli Movie ‘Foxtrot’ Wins Second Place Prize at Venice Film Festival
JNS.org - The Israeli film “Foxtrot” won the second-place Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday and drew strong criticism from Israel’s Minister...
Top US-Based Jewish Human Rights Groups Lauds Berlin Mayor for Condemnation of Anti-Israel BDS Movement
A prominent US-based Jewish human rights group has praised the mayor of Germany’s capital city for the condemnation he issued on Wednesday of the anti-Israel...
Frankfurt Becomes First German City to Outlaw Municipal Funding of BDS
JNS.org - Frankfurt has become the first German city to pass a bill outlawing municipal funding for the anti-Israel BDS movement’s activities. “The BDS movement does not...
BDS Pressure Prompts Artists to Withdraw From Berlin’s Pop-Kultur Festival
JNS.org - Several artists withdrew from Berlin’s Pop-Kultur festival this week after learning that the Israeli Embassy in Germany contributed 500 euros ($590) in funding...
Roger Waters: Orders Not to Discuss Israel in US Media ‘Came From Above’
Former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters intimated this week that a pro-Israel conspiracy controls what can be said about the Jewish state in the US...
Jewish Group Educates on Roger Waters’ BDS Activism Ahead of DC Concerts
JNS.org - Ahead of former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters’s performances in Washington, DC this weekend, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington has...
Anti-Israel Activists Prevented in US From Boarding Tel Aviv-Bound Flight
JNS.org - A group of five prominent anti-Israel BDS movement activists were prevented on Monday from boarding a flight from Washington, DC to Israel’s Ben-Gurion International...
Rabbis Dispute ADL’s Alt-Right List, Issue Own List of the Far-Left
JNS.org – The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) new “hate list” of top alt-right figures “gives a free pass to antisemitism coming from left-wing activists,” a rabbinical group...
Israeli Arab Singer Blasts BDS Demand to Cancel Radiohead’s Tel Aviv Show
JNS.org - Nasreen Qadri, an Israeli Arab singer who was set to perform in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night with the British rock band Radiohead, slammed...
