Via FrontPageMag: Rep. Mark Pocan (D., Wis.) has been identified as the anonymous member of Congress who reserved official Capitol Hill space for an anti-Israel forum that is being organized by several organizations that support boycotts of the Jewish state, according to congressional sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. Pocan had also met with a member of a notorious terrorist group...
Airbnb’s Ban on Israeli Communities in West Bank Is Shameful
Via Spectator-UK: So alongside being the only country that pop stars refuse to play in, and the only country whose academics are boycotted on Western campuses, and the only country whose dancers and violinists cannot perform in cities like London without gangs of people screaming them down, now Israel is the only country that has been politically punished by holiday app cum conscience Airbnb. Why...
Israel: European Countries Providing Millions to Groups Promoting BDS
Via JPost: European countries and the EU are providing millions of euros to organizations promoting the BDS movement, Israeli Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan will say during his current visit to Germany and Italy. State funding from Europe for organizations involved in BDS is “one of the main funding sources of the movement,” his office said. He will call on...
Airbnb Faces Israeli Class-Action Lawsuit for Delisting Israeli Communities in the West Bank
Via Reuters: Lawyers launched a class action lawsuit in Jerusalem District Court on Thursday against Airbnb after it withdrew listings of Israeli communities in the West Bank. Ma’anit Rabinovich from the West Bank community of Kida, who offers guest room rentals, said through her attorneys that the move “represents especially grave, offensive and outrageous discrimination.” It...
Board of Deputies condemns Quakers’ Israel divestment policy
More Jew-hatred, this time from the Quakers in Britain. Via Board of Deputies of British Jews: Board of Deputies President Marie van der Zyl has condemned the decision of Quakers in Britain to divest from, in its words, “any companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine.” Marie said: “The appalling decision of the Friends House hierarchy to divest from just one country...
The Hostile Campus Environment for Israel and Her Supporters
Via Shoebat Foundation: Her name is Chloe Valdary and in this video, she drives a point home that desperately needs to resonate with more people. The incremental increase of anti-Semitism in the years leading up to the extermination of six million Jews during World War Two is back. Valdary has partnered with Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) to raise more awareness of just how dangerous...
New pariah on the block
Excerpted from The Economist: The campaign for sanctions against Israel is growing. But it faces resistance and is less effective than it looks. For once, Israel’s critics and cheerleaders agree on something: the Jewish state risks greater international isolation. Pro-Israel groups such as NGO Monitor and the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs say a new assault is on the way. In the other...