Trump puts Israel first with UNESCO withdrawal
Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy was on full display Thursday when the State Department announced that the United States is withdrawing from UNESCO over the United Nations cultural body’s….
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Purdue’s president takes aim at the left
Mitch Daniels has decided that the real enemy on the Purdue campus isn’t the far right threatening harassment and violence, but left-wing activism, writes Elizabeth Schulte.
ACLU files lawsuit against state of Kansas over bill against Israel boycotts
‘The state should not be telling people what causes they can or can’t support,’ said a teacher rendered unemployable by the bill on whose behalf the lawsuit has been filed
Cornell University : Professor Has No Regrets After Controversial Chant
“I never assume that most people share my politics,” Prof. Russell Rickford, history, told The Sun. Activist and scholar of black American history, Rickford joined Black Lives Matter in Ithaca….
Israeli anti-Zionist expelled from Labour amid anti-Semitism smear
A renowned Israeli anti-Zionist was expelled from Labour on Tuesday, as the party bureaucracy falsely accused him of anti-Semitism. Retired philosophy professor Moshé Machover told The Electronic Intifada that the….
Award-Winning Filmmaker Ken Loach Donates Film Screening Proceeds to BDS Movement
Award-winning British filmmaker Ken Loach has donated all proceeds from screenings of his latest film in Israeli venues to the BDS movement as a gesture of support for the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
Checking settlement exports “impossible,” EU admits
The European Union has admitted that it cannot monitor whether producers working from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are fraudulently taking advantage of trade privileges. Since 2000, the….
UN Takes First Concrete Step To Hold Israel Accountable For Violating Palestinian Human Rights
September 27, 2017 — Today’s media reports revealed that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights began sending letters two weeks ago to 150 companies in Israel and around the….
BREAKING NEWS: UN sent warns 150 companies against doing business in Israeli settlements
Israeli officials say some of the companies responded to the UN human rights commissioner by saying they won’t renew their contracts in Israel
B’Tselem: Israel is asking the High Court’s permission to commit war crime
B’Tselem Executive Director, Hagai El-Ad said, following the State’s response submitted earlier today to the High Court of Justice, that the state was asking the court to authorize a war….