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http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Exclusive-PayPal-shuts-third-BDS-French-account-in-2018-545225

 

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Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses

Yesterday, students, campus workers, and allies from across the University of California system were in Los Angeles to call on the UC Regents to listen to student voices and divest university funds from corporations that profit from human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. Following the UC Regents’ signing of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investments in 2014 and clear votes in support of divestment by the University of California Student Association (UCSA), UC Graduate Student Worker Union (UAW 2865), and Student Governments on eight out of nine UC campuses, students are demanding the UC Regents ensure that the UCs reflect the values we all hold dear: freedom, justice, and equality.

Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses

 

[Sixties Fan]

Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses

Yesterday, students, campus workers, and allies from across the University of California system were in Los Angeles to call on the UC Regents to listen to student voices and divest university funds from corporations that profit from human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. Following the UC Regents’ signing of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investments in 2014 and clear votes in support of divestment by the University of California Student Association (UCSA), UC Graduate Student Worker Union (UAW 2865), and Student Governments on eight out of nine UC campuses, students are demanding the UC Regents ensure that the UCs reflect the values we all hold dear: freedom, justice, and equality.

Students from across the Universities of California call on regents to divest from Israeli human rights abuses

How sweet. All of these ignorant students who attach themselves to the first shiny object in front of them.....want the Universities to divest from a country they only hear ugly things about....and believe them.

The future of America is NOT in good hands.

 

[Sixties Fan]

According to Diker, “The use of this slanderous, libelous and baseless attack against Israel has become a requirement of the ANC narrative.”

The ANC, or African National Council, is the ruling party in South Africa. “If you’re South African public servant or government official, you can be punished economically and politically if you fail to use the term ‘apartheid’ when referring to Israel,” Diker said.

“The problem is that words spoken at the biased and slanted UNHRC are published and become a weapon in the hands of Israel haters in European and North America. It has also seeped into academia and become a ‘legitimate’ term when referring to Israel,” Diker explained.

“The first time the ‘apartheid’ slander was used against Israel was when Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat used the word when he spoke at the United Nations back in 1974,” he added.

(full article online)

South Africa Reasserts ‘the Lie of Israeli Apartheid’ at Biased UN

 

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Victory: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Targeting Research, Palestine Advocacy at SF State
March 13, 2018

On Friday, a federal court issued an order dismissing a lawsuit against San Francisco State University (SFSU) professor Rabab Abdulhadi, who together with SFSU, was sued over speech activities supporting Palestinian rights in 2017.

In dismissing the complaint, the court noted that the lawsuit was “full of barely relevant material” and did “not state a plausible claim for relief.” The judge did, however, give the plaintiffs an opportunity to rethink their claims and re-file the suit within 20 days.

Abdulhadi, director and founder of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at SFSU, is a leading scholar, educator and advocate for justice in/for Palestine. The lawsuit was filed by the Lawfare Project, a right-wing anti-Palestinian organization with an avowed mission of inflicting massive punishments against critics of Israel.

“Lawfare is skating on very thin ice,” said Mark Kleiman, an attorney for Abdulhadi. “If they tell the truth, they have no case against Dr. Abdulhadi. To continue to harass her with this lawsuit, they will have to lie about her.”

Victory: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Targeting Research, Palestine Advocacy at SF State

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ Boycott Israel = the actions of uncivilized humans who must have things their way, and their way only. At least where Jews are concerned, as they would never boycott Russia, North Korea and other countries and much less attack citizens of those countries or who follow their religions, or lack of them ]

San Francisco State University is perhaps one of the worst schools for Jewish students in North America. There have been numerous antisemitic incidents there, from public calls to murder Israelis by a university student, to antisemitic graffiti “Zionists not welcomed”, to the most recent event in which the university president refused to say in an interview that Zionists were welcome on his campus, only to apologize later.

Members of the campus anti-Israel group, which includes both students and professors, named the president’s apology a “declaration of war.” They further responded to the university president’s apology by vandalizing school buildings with “Zionism = Racism” and “Zionists are not allowed on our campus.”


(full article online)

'Shtetlizing’ our students

 

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BDS: The Bane in Spain | HonestReporting

 

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Bucking BDS, punk pioneers The Stranglers return to Tel Aviv

 

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SodaStream’s Brilliant Move To Counter BDS Vandals

 

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Iran's Role in the Boycott Israel Campaign

 

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Court allows expanded lawsuit against American Studies Association and lead faculty activists over Israel Boycott

Court Dismisses Major Claims Against American Studies Association

“The court echoed what we’ve been saying all along,” said Palestine Legal staff attorney Radhika Sainath, who wrote in 2015 that such an ultra vires claim would be a “sure loser” since “educational associations’ decisions to boycott Israeli institutions are aimed at promoting academic freedom for Palestinian scholars and students and thus fall squarely within the educational purposes for which such scholarly societies are established.”

The court also dismissed all of plaintiffs’ derivative claims for breach of fiduciary duty, but allowed the case to proceed to discovery – a preliminary stage in the litigation process -- on the breach of contract, corporate waste, and D.C. Nonprofit Corporation Act claims. Israel advocacy groups had previously threatened to sue the ASA for national origin discrimination and antisemitism. This lawsuit abandoned those theories.

“Supporters of the academic boycott should take heart from this decision,” said Sainath. “Israel advocacy groups are throwing every legal argument at this movement to see what will stick, and nothing’s sticking. We’re encouraged that the court will ultimately see this lawsuit as an attempt by powerful actors to silence views they don’t like.”

Court Dismisses Major Claims Against American Studies Association

 

[Sixties Fan]

The leadership of the American Studies Association (ASA) was "covertly pack[ed]" with professors known to be in favor of an academic boycott of Israel as part of a surreptitious effort to push the professional academic organization to adopt such a position, according to the legal team involved in a case challenging the boycott efforts.

Internal emails are alleged to reveal top ASA committee members "schemed to subvert the American Studies Association's National Council by limiting nominations to individuals affiliated with USACBI," or the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, an anti-Israel activist group. These candidates would then be trusted to promote and vote in favor of the ASA's boycott measure, passed in 2013.
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Five of the individual defendants who held ASA leadership positions have close associations with USACBI, either sitting on its advisory board or organizing collective, including Jasbir Puar, a Rutgers professor of women's studies; Steven Salaita, an academic who has blamed "Zionists" for his inability to find work; Sunaina Maira; Neferti Tadiar; and J. Kehaulani Kauanui.

Puar specifically "manipulated" the USACBI "takeover" of the ASA, according to the plaintiffs.

(full article online)

Attorneys: American Studies Association Packed Leadership with BDS Supporters

 

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Norwegian festival boycotts Israeli artists, cites 'occupation'

A Norwegian femininity and gender identity festival blocked six Israeli choreographers from participating due to what was described as the Israeli government's use of culture to "whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people."

Norwegian festival boycotts Israeli artists, cites occupation

 

[Hollie]

Norwegian festival boycotts Israeli artists, cites 'occupation'

A Norwegian femininity and gender identity festival blocked six Israeli choreographers from participating due to what was described as the Israeli government's use of culture to "whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people."

Norwegian festival boycotts Israeli artists, cites occupation

“A Norwegian femininity and gender identity festival....”


Now that’s funny. You’re reduced to cutting and pasting articles about the “gender confused” who need attention.

Really, sweetie. Your Jooooo hatreds don’t allow you time for anything more important in your miserable life?

 

[rylah]

New regional deals, new countries are opening shorter air passages for the Israelis and those who want to visit. In one word "ISOLATION"...

 

[Sixties Fan]

Another victory was scored against BDS in a Spanish court, which ruled that a pro-boycott resolution violates the constitutional principle of equality before the law.
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A court in Las Palmas, Spain dealt another legal defeat to the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign when it nullified the boycott decision of the City Council of Telde, an Atlantic town of 100,000 residents in the east of the island of Gran Canary.

(full article online)

BDS Suffers Another Defeat in Spanish Court

 

[Shusha]

Norwegian festival boycotts Israeli artists, cites 'occupation'

A Norwegian femininity and gender identity festival blocked six Israeli choreographers from participating due to what was described as the Israeli government's use of culture to "whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people."

Norwegian festival boycotts Israeli artists, cites occupation

Funny how collective punishment is fine when its conducted against Israelis.

 

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In world first, Air India crosses Saudi airspace to Israel

 

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TAU to collaborate with Stanford, Berkeley under $10m grant

 

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The Talk Israel Tried to Censor at the European Parliament - Omar Barghouti BDS