A Los Angeles judge has sanctioned Service Corporation International (SCI), owner of Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, after finding that the cemetery intentionally tampered with and destroyed evidence related to a class action lawsuit alleging that Eden mishandled human remains.
Last April, Keri Copans, Hillel\’s campus director at the University of California, San Diego, learned that a measure was about to come before her student government asking the university to divest from companies that do business with \”occupying\” powers.
Amanda Boris is nervous about what she’ll face when classes resume at the University of Wisconsin later this month.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for a total boycott on Israeli goods or companies that do business with Israel.\n
When Amir Gissin helped come up with an idea to remake Israel\’s international image several years ago, it\’s unlikely he imagined that the showcasing of Israeli films in Toronto would spark a star-studded Hollywood brouhaha over artistic expression and cultural boycotts.
I recently signed a letter protesting the Toronto International Film Festival\’s decision to showcase and celebrate Tel Aviv. This in the very year when Gaza happened.
Neve Gordon, the Ben-Gurion University political science professor whose Aug. 20 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times titled “Boycott Israel” described Israel as an “apartheid state,” has drawn protests and threats of cutting off funding for the school by some U.S. donors.
Jewish groups have taken lead roles in drawing attention to China\’s policies and specifically sought to spotlight the country\’s record in advance of this summer\’s Olympic Games in Beijing. Yet it appears as if China will suffer no significant international sanction when the games open Aug. 8
The decision by Britain\’s largest academic union to drop its proposed boycott of Israel may not spell the end of the union\’s campaign to ostracize the Jewish state.
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