Posts Tagged: Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS)
‘A Step Toward Eradicating Antisemitism on Campus’: George Washington University Ends Partnership with Middle East Studies Association
George Washington University (GW) will ends its partnership with the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), an academic professional organization that has widely endorsed boycotting Israeli...
US Jewish Groups Cheer Upholding of Texas Anti-BDS Law
American Jewish groups on Monday cheered a federal Appeal's court ruling which upholds Texas' anti-boycott-divestment-sanctions (BDS) law, prohibiting companies from boycotting Israel for the duration...
Chicago Financial Firm Removes Over 100 Negative ESG Ratings for Israel Linked Companies
Morningstar, Inc., a Chicago-based investment firm managing over $250 billion in assets, has removed 109 negative "controversy ratings" that its Sustainalytics subsidiary had given companies...
‘Irreversible Impact’: Over 100 Organizations Urge Universities to Reject Academic Association BDS Resolution
Over 100 Jewish and non-Jewish organizations on Tuesday issued a fervent letter urging university leaders to reject a boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) resolution being proposed...
US Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Texas Anti-BDS Law
A US federal court has rejected a challenge to a Texas law that bars companies participating in the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) movement from receiving...
Overwhelming Majority of Middle East Scholars Support Boycotting Israel, New Survey Shows
An overwhelming majority of Middle East scholars support boycotting Israel, according to a new survey. From October 25 to November 8, Shibley Telhami of University of...
Civil Rights Complaint Alleges ‘Pattern of Antisemitism’ at CUNY
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the subject of a new Title VI complaint with the US Department of Education alleging that it...
BDS Movement Targeting Israel a ‘Polarizing’ Factor on Campus, Concludes New Report From Canadian University
A new report issued by McGill University in Montreal has described the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the State of Israel as a...
Funds Cut From City Program for CUNY Law After Faculty Backs Israel Boycott
Fifty-thousand dollars in funding for the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School were reappropriated after its faculty endorsed a student measure backing the...
University of Melbourne Student Union Reverses Course on BDS After Backlash
Australian Jewish leaders on Thursday welcomed a decision by the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) to scrap a motion endorsing the boycott, divestment, sanctions...
CUNY Law Faculty Endorse Israel Boycott Resolution
The faculty of the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law have endorsed a student government resolution that backs the boycott, divestment and...
Louisiana State University Student Divestment Bill Takes Aim at Israeli Academic Partners
The student government of Louisiana State University (LSU) unanimously passed a divestment bill during its final session of the year that singled out several of...
BDS Vote at University of Melbourne Prompts Class Action Student Lawsuit
A University of Melbourne student has filed a class action lawsuit against the school's student union for endorsing the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign and...
UC Santa Barbara ‘Apartheid Wall’ Cartoons Draw Ire of Pro-Israel Students
Pro-Israel students at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have denounced an "Apartheid Wall" campus installation for featuring "anti-Zionist and antisemitic" material, including work by...
