Posts Tagged: BDS movement
Anti-Israel Activists at McGill Boycott, Block Access to ‘Peace Wall’
Despite invitations to contribute to an installation promoting peace in the Middle East, BDS activists at Canada’s McGill University protested it on anti-Israel grounds, campus...
Following Defeat of BDS Motion at U of Toronto, Israel Advocates Say Anti-Jewish-State Activists ‘Significantly Miscalculated’ Opponents’ Mobilization Power
In the wake of a major defeat of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign at the University of Toronto this week, advocates of...
Dershowitz: BDS Activists ‘Miseducating Generation of Future Leaders’ About Israeli-Palestinian Conflict to Delegitimize Jewish Nation-State
While BDS activists have failed to get American educational institutions to boycott the Jewish state, they are succeeding in “miseducating a generation of future leaders”...
Israeli UN Envoy Danon Hosts Anti-BDS Conference
JNS.org - Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon led a conference at UN headquarters Wednesday in New York City, aiming to organize legal efforts to...
Following BDS Defeat, Activists at U of Michigan Reject Outreach Efforts by Pro-Israel Peers, ‘Normalization’ With Jewish State
Students at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who supported a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution that was defeated by a landslide vote at the...
Anti-Israel Marchers Join Trump Protests in New York City; Call for ‘Intifada Revolution’
Anti-Israel activists are seeking to co-opt the left-wing protests that have erupted across the US following Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday’s...
Vice President Biden: No Reason for Jewish Anxiety About Future Trump Administration Commitment to Israel
American Jews have no reason to be concerned about the future of US-Israel ties after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, outgoing Vice President Joe...
Antisemitism Expert: ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ Legitimizing ‘Obvious Bigotry’ Through Alliance With Anti-Israel Jews
A national anti-Israel student organization is spending "much of its energy trying to deny its obvious bigotry," the head of a Jewish rights-focused legal group told The...
McGill University Student Paper Defends Censoring Pro-Israel Content
An independent student newspaper at McGill University in Canada admitted in an editorial this week to censoring pro-Israel content, on the grounds that Zionism "functions as a settler-colonial ideology...
World Zionist Congress Passes Resolution Opposing BDS ‘In All Its Forms’
JNS.org - The World Zionist Congress has approved a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement “in all its forms.” The measure also includes...
Virginia Realtor Says She ‘Refused to Be Bullied’ by BDS Activists Protesting Brokerage Business in Israel
A Virginia realtor said she “refused to be bullied” by protesters who attempted to disrupt her showing of a property to potential buyers last week because the company she...
U of Michigan Students Justify ‘Zionism Is Scary’ Halloween Bake Sale Following Outcry Over ‘Gross Bigotry’
Students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn told The Algemeiner on Tuesday that they were justified in holding a blatantly anti-Israel event, "because Zionism constitutes antisemitism.” The school's chapter of Students...
New Campus Initiative Aims to Counteract Anti-Israel Movement’s ‘Trite, One-Sided’ Rhetoric by Showing Jewish State’s ‘Human Face’
A new campaign to combat anti-Israel messaging on US campuses by showing the diversity of the Jewish state was launched on Monday, a spokesperson for a...
Number of Britons Who Oppose Boycotting Israel Rises by 8 Percent, New Poll Finds
Opposition to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is growing in Great Britain, according to the results of a new survey published on...
