Posts Tagged: BDS
Exposing the Lies and Hate of the BDS Movement
In a conversation with American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) on March 31st Omar Barghouti appears to have charged Jews as thieves, settler colonialists, racists, purveyors...
Cornel West, Campus Politics, and BDS
One of the most notable BDS related developments in March was the claim by Harvard Divinity School professor Cornel West that he was "denied tenure"...
Planning for Antisemitism in Planned Giving to Universities
A few years ago, a woman contacted the pro-Israel organization where I work, StandWithUs, worried about her late husband’s legacy. He had spent his career...
Mohammad Shtayyeh, BDS, and the Antisemitic Circle of the ICC
The modern story of international criminal justice involves the boycotting of Jews. On April 1, 1933, the Nazi leadership in Germany sent their Storm Troopers to...
Macron Is Right; Islamo-Leftism Is a Threat
It started with a beheading. Last October, 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdullakh Anzorov used a cleaver to murder history teacher Samuel Paty on the streets of a...
Marc Lamont Hill’s Vile Antisemitism and Duplicitous New Book
Progressive academic/activist Marc Lamont Hill was famously fired from CNN in 2018 after he called for "a free Palestine" at the United Nations...
IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Becomes a BDS Battleground
BDS activities on campus intensified rapidly as colleges and universities began resuming in-person instruction. Demonstrating the opportunistic nature of BDS, was a petition at the...
Jewish Voice for Peace Fights to Preserve Anti-Zionist Hatred Online
The group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) claims to oppose bigotry, and to support security and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. But a new...
BDS Bill ‘Does Not Reflect the University’s Views,’ Says UC Irvine After Student Government Passes Anti-Israel Resolution
The University of California Irvine administration pushed back against the passage of a pro-BDS bill by its student government that referred to Israel as an...
University of California Irvine Student Government Passes BDS Bill Condemning Israel as ‘Apartheid’ State While Denying Link to Judaism
The student government at University of California, Irvine passed a BDS bill on Tuesday night demanding divestment from several companies that do business with Israel. The...
Evoking Antisemitic Tropes to Deny That BDS Is Antisemitic
Last year, the German parliament passed a resolution by an overwhelming majority labeling the international BDS movement antisemitic. The motion, which noted Germany’s national responsibility...
University of Toronto Panel Tells Graduate Students’ Union to Stop Funding Discriminatory BDS
In a ruling announced on Thursday, the University of Toronto said it would require the Graduate Students’ Union to stop forcing students to fund the...
Palestinian Ambassador Draws Harvard Invite Despite a Sketchy Record on Antisemitism
Husam Zomlot has tried to explain away a comment denying the Holocaust, rationalized the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s policy of paying families of terrorists, and minimized...
NGO Human Rights Watch Demands President Biden End Criticism, Refusal to Cooperate With BDS
The leading NGO Human Rights Watch, long noted for its antipathy toward Israel, called on Tuesday for President Joe Biden to stop the US government...
