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pro-palestinian
War on campus
Jewish Journal
January 23, 2015
The spring semester on American campuses is beginning. On some campuses anti-Israel groups will be preparing for another round of the so-called Israel Apartheid Week, which will unfold as the aftershocks of this past summer’s Israel-Hamas war are still being felt.
ASA conference revisits the boycott of Israeli institutions
Ryan Torok
November 12, 2014
Nancy Koppelman, an American Studies professor at The Evergreen State College in Washington, is well aware of how passionate things can get on college campuses over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The late pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, had been a student at Evergreen.
Jewish donors leaving Britain’s Labor Party over Miliband’s anti-Israel stance
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2014
Jewish donors and supporters are deserting Britain’s Labor party over party leader Ed Miliband’s anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian stance.
Jewish couple attacked in NYC, apparently by Palestinian supporters
Jewish Journal
August 26, 2014
A Jewish married couple were verbally and physically attacked in New York City by assailants yelling anti-Jewish statements.
Don’t dismiss California system’s fights over Israel divestment
Jewish Journal
July 31, 2014
Experts disagree about who first observed, “academic politics is so vicious because the stakes are so low,” but when it comes to the ongoing student debates about divestment in companies doing business with Israel, the sentence is only half true.
Moeen banned from wearing pro-Palestinian wristbands
Jewish Journal
July 29, 2014
UPDATE: After England cricketer Moeen Ali sported pro-Palestinian wristbands (with slogans “Free Gaza” and “Save Palestine” inscribed on the bands) at a Southampton match on Monday, July 28, the International Cricket Council issued a public statement the following day, threatening to ban Ali if he continued to overtly display his personal politics on the field.\n
Hundreds ignore ban in Paris to protest Israeli offensive in Gaza
Jewish Journal
July 26, 2014
Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in central Paris on Saturday when hundreds of marchers defied a ban by French authorities to rally against Israel\’s offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Air France fined for kicking pro-Palestinian activist off flight to Israel
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2013
A French court ordered Air France to pay a $12,800 fine for ordering a non-Jewish pro-Palestinian activist off a flight to Tel Aviv.
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