The resolution condemns the BDS movement as anti-Semitic and calls on the government to withhold federal funds from organizations tied to the BDS movement.
‘We call on our friends around the world to speak out against this shameful initiative which reminds us of dark periods in our history,’ said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
Staunch American allies of Israel have succeeded in passing anti-boycott legislation in over half of all U.S. states, with new laws set to advance in 12 more states.
‘The [BDS] dogs bark, but [Israel’s] melody continues,’ remarked Israel’s Consul General in New York after pro-boycott group tried to disrupt a Carnegie Hall performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Palestinian leaders regularly urge their people to boycott Israeli products, causing a major outrage when they slipped up and released a picture of themselves surreptitiously enjoying delicious Israeli-made refreshments at a meeting.
Leaders of the Evangelical movement condemned Airbnb for discriminating against the Jewish state with its recent anti-Israel boycott of users in Judea and Samaria.
Siding with anti-Semites and opposing open dialogue, Amnesty International cancelled a debate with the UK’s Jewish community over the UN’s biased human rights agency. Me must protest this unacceptable conduct!
Liberty University in Virginia has announced it plans to invest $5 million of its endowment fund in Israel, a show of support for the Jewish State which faces an anti-Semitic campaign that calls to boycott it.
In response to widespread efforts to isolate Israel spearheaded by the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a number of universities around the world have taken a stand this past week in support of the Jewish state.
Despite a significant majority of the student body at Stanford University opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, anti-Israel student groups are reportedly intending to renew efforts to push through a failed divestment referendum, the Stanford Review reported.
A recent study found that one out of every six Israeli academics hides his or her national identity when submitting drafts of research papers in order to avoid falling victim to anti-Semitism fueled by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel suffered its second defeat in five weeks at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Tuesday.
The student government at the University of Chicago (UC) passed a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution against Israel Tuesday, with eight in favor, four against and three abstaining.
While the global anti-Israel boycott movement isn’t making much progress, the issue must be addressed. One of the ways to defend Israel against boycotts is for US states to pass legislation against the anti-Semitic movement. Help make it happen!
The Georgia General Assembly became the latest state legislature to approve a bill that seeks to deter companies from taking part in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Over the past week, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel has suffered setbacks on three major American campuses: Vassar College, Northeastern University and the University of Indianapolis.
Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), one of Germany’s largest universities, on Monday announced that it has cancelled an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement lecture that was scheduled for this month.
The Canary Mission, a secretive pro-Israel organization that documents anti-Israel campus activity last week released a detailed report on Columbia University, just as the school’s annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” was set to kick off.
Israel has warned that the boycott movement will harm the Palestinians. This has now become the reality and hundreds of Palestinians are unemployed, courtesy of these activists who claim to be concerned for Palestinians.
Well-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker again voiced his opposition to academic boycotts of Israel last week, as two groups of anthropologists geared up campaigns to defeat the boycott resolution before the American Anthropological Association, to be voted on beginning April 15.
An appearance of Israeli Embassy spokesman Yiftah Curiel at a major British university was cancelled at the last minute last week under disputed circumstances.
An effort to persuade the student body at Canada’s McGill University to adopt an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution has failed.
McGill University’s student government on Monday night passed a resolution endorsing the boycott, divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, by a large margin.
An advertising company announced on Thursday that it will take down an anti-Israel billboard in Chicago, following complaints from supporters of the Jewish state calling for a removal of the offensive sign.
Canadian lawmakers are set to pass a bipartisan bill that will “condemn any and all attempts” by entities in Canada to support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The DAB Bank in Munich is set to discontinue the account of BDS-Kampagne, a leading group associated with the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign in Germany.
Legitimate opposition to Israeli policies or blatant anti-Semitism? Israeli academics say today they are facing more personal attacks from colleagues than in the past.
The largest Slovenian supermarket chain, Mercator, has reneged on its earlier decision to remove Israeli products from its shelves, a move that had come in response to pressure from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The US State Department is backing the European Union’s ridiculous claim that the labeling of Israeli products so that they can be boycotted – is not technically a boycott.
While supposedly “committed to justice, dignity, equality and peace,” the NWSA exposed its own hypocrisy by voting to boycott Israel. Not only is the organization prejudiced, it is also clearly ignorant of the facts. Thankfully, our supporters stepped forward to loudly protest this misguided decision.
Completely ignoring reality, the EU has again placed the onus for all conflicts in the Middle East solely on Israel and ruled that Judea and Samaria are prohibited from being included in any deals with the Jewish State.
We will not let these boycotts break our spirits. We, in Israel, will continue walkin’ down our beautiful and safe streets singin’, “Do wah diddy, diddy, dum diddy do.”
In a rare win for the anti-Israel boycott movement, the pension board of the United Methodist Church voted to place five Israeli banks on a list of companies that it will not invest in for human rights reasons. Protest this misguided decision!
Florida State Senator Miguel Diaz de la Portilla and State House Representative Lori Berman, together with the organization Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, drafted a bi-partisan resolution to condemn BDS and halt the increasing incidents of anti-Semitism on Florida campuses. Thank them for their efforts!
An Israeli university won a discrimination case against the Spanish government, which banned them from an architecture competition because they came from Judea and Samaria.
