Posts Tagged: BDS
Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution Fails at George Washington University by Narrow Margin
A divestment resolution's failure to be passed by the George Washington (GW) University student government on Monday by the slimmest of margins has pro-Israel activists...
Report: European States Finance NGOs That Support Terrorism Against Israel
Several European governments fund NGOs that often justify attacks against Israeli civilians and maintain ties to terrorists, according to a new report by the research institute NGO Monitor. The...
Dozens of Pro-Israel Groups Call on Tufts President to Take Action After BDS Vote on Passover Eve ‘Deliberately Excluded’ Jews
Forty-five pro-Israel organizations signed a letter that was sent to the president of Tufts University on Thursday demanding that action be taken against the school's...
J Street Embraces an Israeli Settlement
JNS.org - J Street, the left-wing group that claims to be staunchly opposed to Israeli settlements, has embraced an Israeli settlement. What? How can that be? This...
California University President Praised for Condemning BDS as Student Government Weighs Anti-Israel Resolution
The president of a California university has been applauded by Jewish campus groups for taking on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in a letter...
Student Leader: University of Wisconsin BDS Activists ‘Cleverly Manipulated’ Jewish Community to Pass Anti-Israel Resolution
Anti-Israel activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) have been accused of having “cleverly manipulated” the Jewish community in order to successfully pass Boycott, Divestment...
UC Santa Barbara’s SJP Slammed for Launching BDS Campaign on Holocaust Remembrance Day
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) chapter of a notorious anti-Israel group is being slammed by Jewish students for launching a boycott, divestment and...
Why Is CUNY Honoring and Supporting BDS?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has previously “blackballed a dozen foreign companies for supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.” As the New York...
Invest in BDS — Boycotted Companies Make Lots of Money
Yesterday, Caterpillar announced much better financial results than were anticipated, and its stock price rose by nearly 8%. I half-jokingly tweeted that a smart investor should look carefully at...
Controversy Over Prominent BDS Activist Linda Sarsour Reaches New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Jewish leaders and pro-Israel activists have expressed concern over a contribution to Time Magazine by New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that praised Linda Sarsour – a...
Washington U Hillel Hailed for Refusing to Fund J Street-Hosted Breaking the Silence Event
A student leader at Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) has applauded the school's Hillel for refusing to fund a J Street U event featuring the...
Claiming Calls for Israel’s Destruction Are ‘Not Inherently Antisemitic,’ UK Jewish Student Defends Push for NUS to Excise Anti-Zionism From Antisemitism Definition
A British Jewish university student is defending her choice to lead a charge to excise anti-Zionism from the National Union of Students' (NUS) definition of antisemitism, claiming in an interview with The...
An Open Letter to the Tufts Community on BDS and Israel
Tufts University. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.To the students of Tufts University, My name is Dr. Jacob Freedman, and I’m an assistant professor of psychiatry at Tufts' School...
Georgia’s Kennesaw State University Hosts Camel, Kangaroo on Campus for Israel Festival
A Georgia university hosted a camel and kangaroo on campus last week as part of a program celebrating Israeli culture, with organizers telling The Algemeiner on Friday that...
