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Rights
War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority
“Israel Anti-Boycott Act” is the most egregious of such interventions, for it strikes down the First Amendment
Why Politics in 2019 will have a Lot More Backbone
Democracy in its current iteration can no longer sustain us
1st Palestinian-American Congresswoman will Wear Traditional Dress for Swearing In
& She will lead a congressional delegation to Occupied West Bank, Palestine, to present an alternative perspective on the conflict.
Students from 30 British Universities Protest Investment in Israeli Occupation
Hundreds of students from over 30 UK universities protested against their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s violations of human rights yesterday. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) called for the action to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People as part of its “Apartheid Off Campus” campaign, which seeks to highlight how universities’ investment […]
Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure
Two leading chefs have pulled out of the Tel Aviv-hosted Round Tables food festival following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, reported Haaretz. Gabrielle Hamilton, chef, and owner of the Prune restaurant in New York, cancelled, following the earlier cancellation by Ana Ros, a world-acclaimed chef from Slovenia. Ahead of the festival, […]
In First, U of Leeds Divests from Firms Supplying Israel Army
In the first move of its kind, a UK university has divested from companies that supply military equipment to the Israeli army following a student campaign. The University of Leeds this weekend made the decision to divest from three companies which were found to be complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights: Airbus, United […]
Israel to spend $72 mn to convince Europe Boycott over Occupation is “anti-Semitism”
Text calls on “all political parties to pass a binding resolution rejecting BDS activities as fundamentally anti-Semitic”.
Avalanche of Criticism for U of Michigan for Fining Professor over Israel Boycott
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) called on the university to rescind the punishment