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Tag Archives: Boycott Divest Sanctions
#BDSFail UAE issues decree formally ending Israel boycott
ASSOCIATED PRESS UAE formally ends Israel boycott amid US-brokered deal by Jon Gambrell August 29, 2020 The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Boycott, Boycott Divest Sanctions, UAE, United Arab Emirates
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With a wide-open field of nine candidates to succeed Democrat Rep. Joe Kennedy, some fear that a split of the pro-Israel/Jewish vote could let a pro-BDS candidate enter Congress
JNS Could a congressional candidate win in New England’s largest Jewish district? by Sean Savage and Jackson Richman August 14, 2020 The Democratic Party has undergone a shift in recent years, with a number of longtime incumbents falling to progressive … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Democrats, Ihssane Leckey
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“The increasingly mainstreamed BDS-BLM narrative poses a grave danger to the U.S. and European progressive and liberal Jewish communities”
JNS The BDS-BLM alignment: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry by Dan Diker July 19, 2020 …Despite universal Jewish support for BLM, it failed to prevent a surge of anti-Semitic violence across the United States in the aftermath of the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boycott Divest Sanctions, George Floyd
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J Street and If Not Now sign letter to Biden advocating for, among other things, defunding Pentagon
I24NEWS J Street, If Not Now among groups urging Biden not to appoint BDS critics on security jobs July 8, 2020 J Street and If Not Now, two left-leaning Jewish groups, were among the signatories of a letter to Joe … Continue reading
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Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, If Not Now, J Street, Joe Biden
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“Zahra Haider continues to spread her one-sided, hateful, and dangerous views far and wide thanks to her position at ‘NowThis'”
STOPANTISEMITISM Antisemite of the Week: Zahra Haider – The ‘NowThis’ Jew Hater July 4, 2020 Zahra Haider is one of the leaders of the antisemitic Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a member of the notorious campus group Students for … Continue reading
“Calls for economic sanctions against Israel risk a costly collision with U.S. anti-boycott laws, as companies such as Airbnb can attest”
FOREIGN POLICY Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice by Richard Goldberg June 10, 2020 Israel’s new government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, may soon declare Israeli sovereignty over roughly 30 … Continue reading
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Tagged Annexation, BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Europe
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“Efforts to link police brutality in the United States with the Israel Defense Forces maintaining security against Palestinian attacks have flooded the Internet and been used as propaganda by the BDS movement”
JNS Groups on both far-left and far-right co-opt Black Lives Matter movement to target Israel by Sean Savage June 9, 2020 …In particular, anti-Israel groups have been using the protests over the public murder of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minnesota … Continue reading
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Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions
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GW University dean selection a sign of “the broader state of academia that continues to produce vapid pro-Palestinian polemics under the thin guise of scholarship”
NEWSWEEK Normalizing Palestinian Scholarship and Anti-Semitism in the Nation’s Capital by Asaf Romirowsky May 21, 2020 The recent appointment of Ilana Feldman as the interim dean of George Washington University’s (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs is extremely concerning on … Continue reading
“Palestinian media, government officials and activists have recycled these themes by placing coronavirus and Israel at the center of their delusions”
NEWSWEEK Arab world delusions fuel #BDS campaign’s coronavirus conspiracies by Samantha Mandeles May 17, 2020 The past two months have seen an explosion of coronavirus-related anti-Zionist discourse from across the globe. Notably, proponents of the global “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions … Continue reading
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Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, coronavirus, COVID19
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“Democrats have been reluctant to support anti-BDS legislation due to First Amendment concerns”
JNS US House Democrats block anti-BDS bill March 5, 2020 Democrats blocked a bill on Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives that would have prohibited U.S. support for the anti-Israel BDS movement. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, introduced by Rep. … Continue reading