Posts Tagged: BDS
Despite Coronavirus, BDS Debate Continues on Campus and Elsewhere
The academic year ended with colleges and universities locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The impact on BDS activities, especially Israeli Apartheid Week and...
Anti-Israel Groups Promote Discrimination and Bigotry
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. In early April, BDS leader Omar Barghouti expressed support for allowing the use of potential Israeli-developed vaccines...
Is There a Campus Antisemitism Pandemic?
It is difficult to find many bright spots in our current situation beyond the heroic efforts of first responders and health care professionals; however, I...
Antisemitic BDS Activists Stage Nazi-Style ‘Execution’ of ‘Palestinians’ in Vienna
The Austrian Parliament condemned the BDS movement as antisemitic in February, but that hasn’t stopped the movement from staging more antisemitic PR stunts there. Heute reports: At...
Irish EU Lawmaker Slammed for ‘Explaining’ Antisemitism to Jews While Promoting BDS
A Irish member of the European Parliament was criticized on Wednesday after she slammed a European Jewish students organization for rebuking her over her participation...
Top PLO Official’s Son in Egyptian Prison; Family Falsely Claims It’s Because He Supports BDS
Last year, Ramy Nabeel Shaath was arrested in Egypt; he was also recently added to a terrorism watch list in the country. At the time of...
Psychologist Group Considers Joining BDS Campaign
In yet another instance of a civil society institution in the US becoming infected with the virus of anti-Zionism, a group called “Psychologists for Social...
Congresswomen to Speak at Anti-Israel Group’s ‘Online Gala’
Islamist groups, like many others, are doing what they can to adjust to life during the coronavirus. Conferences and fundraising dinners are off the table,...
BDS Leader Widely Mocked for Saying It’d Be Ok to Take Israeli-Developed Coronavirus Vaccine
Top BDS activist Omar Barghouti has been widely mocked on social media after he said that it would be permissible for boycotters of Israel to...
Coronavirus Temporarily Slows Campus BDS Efforts
The coronavirus pandemic that began in China has now engulfed the entire world. Among the casualties was higher education in North America. Campuses have shut...
Stop Using Federal Money to Finance Anti-Zionism at US Colleges
Benjamin Franklin once said that “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” He was right -- but what “interest” is the Federal government gaining...
‘Rebranding’ BDS on the African Continent
JNS.org - The BDS movement, whose goal is for rest of the world to quarantine the State of Israel as though it were the coronavirus,...
During Election Season, the Jewish Community Must Prioritize Addressing Campus Antisemitism
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel “is essentially a domestic form of antisemitism that attacks local Jews through the demonizing of the...
Fighting BDS at the UN, ICC, and on Campus
The leading BDS event of February was the long awaited publication by the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of a...
