Wave of Boycotts Hits Israeli LGBT Film Festival as International Artists Heed Palestinian Call to Respect Picket Line
Artists Refuse to Let Their Art Cover Up Grave Israeli Violations of Human Rights
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USACBI condemns right-wing attacks on Dartmouth professor N. Bruce Duthu
The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on Native American Studies Professor N. Bruce Duthu by pro-Israel….
Students urge end to US-Israel police exchanges
The student government of California State University, Long Beach passed a resolution earlier this month calling on the administration to pull its investments in companies profiting from Israel’s violations of….
Award-Winning South African Filmmaker Cancels Participation in Israeli LGBT Film Festival
May 26, 2017 — Yesterday, award-winning South African filmmaker John Trengove canceled his participation in the upcoming Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival (TLVFest). His film, The Wound, is scheduled….
European ambassadors boycott tour of new Israeli rail route because it traverses West Bank
Ministry scraps outing to Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train line after EU representatives decline invitations. Official: Segment over Green Line is underground, only a few hundred meters in length
Blacklisted for BDS?
Popular Native American studies scholar who was named faculty dean at Dartmouth withdraws from position, following criticism of his past support for Israel boycott. Some fear impact on academic freedom.
Israel sentences Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamish to administrative detention
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel sentenced Palestinian writer and political scientist Ahmad Qatamish to three months in administrative detention on Wednesday, prisoners rights group Addameer reported, three days after he was….
After right-wing pressure, Hebrew University cancels confab on Palestinian prisoners
A right-wing student group demanded that the conference be canceled, but the university’s spokeswoman said it was scrapped for logistical reasons
France’s Macron dumps parliamentary candidate after Israel lobby pressure
France’s Israel lobby appears to hold a veto over who can run as a parliamentary candidate on the ticket of incoming President Emmanuel Macron’s party. French media reported on Friday….
Israeli Ministers Greenlight Nation-state Bill: Arabic Isn’t an Official State Language
– New nation-state bill holds that ‘the right to realize self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people’
– Softened bill doesn’t subordinate democracy to the state’s Jewish character