Bipartisan bill in House and Senate targets settlement boycotters with fines
Ron Kampeas, JTA
March 24, 2017
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Senate bill to protect states countering BDS
Jewish Journal
January 19, 2017
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) will introduce a bill today to combat the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement by strengthening protection for state and local governments who divest from companies participating in investment-related BDS actions against Israel.
Senators introduce bipartisan anti-BDS bill
Jewish Journal
January 19, 2017
Two senators introduced a bill to protect to state and local governments passing anti-BDS legislation from lawsuits.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signs state anti-BDS law
Jewish Journal
December 20, 2016
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed into law a bill targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
As BDS resolutions stall, pro-Palestinian students shift tactics
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2016
When Northwestern University’s student Senate passed a resolution in February 2015 asking the university to divest from six corporations they said contributed to the violation of Palestinians’ human rights, freshman Ross Krasner was hurt and surprised.
Governor Brown should veto flawed BDS law
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2016
Since March, the California legislature has struggled to draft a bill aimed at thwarting BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
WATCH: Greenfield scolds Neturei Karta leader at anti-BDS hearing
jacobk
September 8, 2016
New York City Councilman David Greenfield (Brooklyn – D) scolded the leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta for siding with pro-Palestinian activists at a Council committee hearing on an anti-BDS resolution on Thursday.
Pro-Palestinians disrupt NYC Council hearing on anti-BDS resolution
jacobk
September 8, 2016
Pro-Palestinian activists and members of the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday continuously disrupted a hearing held by the New York City Council Committee on Contracts on a resolution that condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the state of Israel.
Keeping UCLA a place of thriving Jewish life and pro-Israel activism
Jewish Journal
September 7, 2016
There’s a campus where Israel is celebrated and Jews thrive.
UCLA: No place for Jews?
Jewish Journal
September 1, 2016
If physical presence is any indication of the soul, then UCLA Graduate Law Student Milan Chatterjee would rank among those gentle giants of imposing stature, whose softness of speech does not jive with the first impressions that they offer.
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