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BDS-supporting scientist grapples with metaphors…and loses

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Nobel Prize Winner Tries to Make the Case for BDS — And Fails Spectacularly A.J. Caschetta April 5, 2022 Last year I asked if scientists were more valuable to the anti-Israel BDS movement than Middle East studies and … Continue reading

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“After 30 years of selling ice cream in Israel, the company wants me to boycott my neighbors. I refuse”

COMMON SENSE Why I’m Suing Ben & Jerry’s Avi Zinger March 28, 2022 …Requiring that I stop selling my ice cream to any customers—Palestinians or Israelis, Christians or Druze—based on where they live is illegal. That is why Ben & … Continue reading

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#BDSFail Sierra Club walks back cancellation of Israel trips

TIMES OF ISRAEL Sierra Club reinstates Israel trips after canceling amid anti-Zionist group pressure Luke Tress March 15, 2022 The US environmental nonprofit Sierra Club is reinstating trips to Israel after canceling scheduled visits in response to pressure from anti-Israel … Continue reading

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“This inability to denounce SJP’s incendiary post appears to be part of a pattern by the University of Chicago to deliberately avoid addressing antisemitism when such incidents occur on campus”

ALGEMEINER UChicago Condemns ‘Anti-Palestinian Bias’ After SJP Urges Boycott of ‘Sh*tty Zionist Classes’ by Rachel O’Donoghue February 17, 2022 If one needed any further evidence of the widespread antisemitism and anti-Israel hostility on college campuses in the United States, you … Continue reading

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“We would be wholly justified in adding Morningstar to state’s list of prohibited investments” said Andrew Lappin, chair of the board’s Illinois Committee on Israel Boycott Restrictions”

JTA Is finance giant Morningstar boycotting Israel? A new BDS battlefront emerges in investing world by Asaf Shalev February 8, 2022 After brushing aside allegations of anti-Israel bias for nearly a year, a multibillion-dollar investment research firm has done an … Continue reading

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Since announcing its boycott of Judea and Samaria, “Unilever stock value has plunged 20.7% translating into a $26 billion loss”

J-WIRE Following boycott on Israel, Unilever shares in unprecedented dive by Aryeh Savir, TPS January 20, 2022 Half a year after notifying Avi Singer, the owner of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, of the termination of the company’s contract with him … Continue reading

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“Lalela Mswane defied the BDS movement, the new Omicron coronavirus variant, and her own government, and flew to Israel to join Miss Universe”

BREITBART Blue State Blues: A Beautiful Black Woman Shatters the BDS Movement by Joel P. Pollak December 3, 2021 On one side of the issue stands Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane, stunningly beautiful and beaming, waving from the Ben Gurion … Continue reading

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“More than 200 celebrities, including actors Mila Kunis, Billy Porter, Neil Patrick Harris and Helen Mirren, signed an open letter opposing efforts to boycott an LGBTQ film festival in Tel Aviv”

JTA Mila Kunis, Neil Patrick Harris, Helen Mirren and over 200 other celebrities sign letter denouncing cultural boycott of Israel by Shira Hanau October 27, 2021 More than 200 celebrities, including actors Mila Kunis, Billy Porter, Neil Patrick Harris and … Continue reading

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Memo to Rooney, the BDS’er : “Boycotting the Hebrew language — spoken by millions of Jews worldwide — has nothing to do with Palestine. It’s just racism”

NEW YORK POST Sally Rooney reportedly banning new novel from being translated to Hebrew By Lee Brown October 12, 2021 It girl novelist Sally Rooney has reportedly refused to allow her new novel to be published in Hebrew because she … Continue reading

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“While a covert campaign to make critical race theory part and parcel of school curricula has been the most visible part of the activist educators’ efforts to corrupt teaching of America’s children, not far behind has been a troubling, pernicious campaign to demonize Israel and Zionism”

FRONT PAGE MAG Public School Educators’ Obsessive Hatred of Israel by Richard L. Cravatts September 2, 2021 …It is inexcusable that educators in America’s public schools have decided to become pro-Palestinian activists; that they have decided it is appropriate and … Continue reading

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