BDS Movement

Friedman: Biden Admin ’Embracing BDS’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and then-American Ambassador David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) and then-American Ambassador David Friedman, April 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem.’U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller confirmed on Monday that the United States would be freezing scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities in areas over the 1949 armistice line, i.e. in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and parts of Jerusalem.

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Posted by Josh Hasten in Jewish News Syndicate

Booking.com, in Volte-Face, Labels Non-Jews’ Listings as Well

Lital and Zohar Aizenberg smile at their Mi Casa Tu Casa bed and breakfast in Moshav Vered Yericho, with the city of Jericho in the background, Sept. 29, 2022. Credit: Josh Hasten.

Lital and Zohar Aizenberg smile at their Mi Casa Tu Casa bed and breakfast in Moshav Vered Yericho, with the city of Jericho in the background, Sept. 29, 2022. Credit: Josh Hasten.

On Friday, Booking.com, the large global online lodging accommodation service website, placed a travel warning on all of its listings—both Jewish- and Arab-owned—for properties in Judea and Samaria, including in towns under full Palestinian Authority control.

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Posted by Josh Hasten in Jewish News Syndicate

Legal Battle over Eastern Jerusalem Property Highlights Attempts by EU to Undermine Israeli Sovereignty

Amal Sumarin, her sons and their attorney arrives for a court hearing regarding the JNF-KKL appeal to evict them from their family home at the District Court in Jerusalem on June 30, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Amal Sumarin, her sons and their attorney arrives for a court hearing regarding the JNF-KKL appeal to evict them from their family home at the District Court in Jerusalem on June 30, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

After a 30-year legal battle, a Jerusalem court has ruled that the Sumarin family must vacate a property located in eastern Jerusalem and return it to its rightful owners. The family has been supported by some 30 left-wing organizations with many funded by the European Union.

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Is Anti-Semitism Becoming Mainstream? Experts See Alarming Trend in Media, Campus and Public Life

 

A panel of experts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) discuss anti-Semitism in the media, campus and public life. Photo by Kineret Rifkind.

A panel of experts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) discuss anti-Semitism in the media, campus and public life. Photo by Kineret Rifkind.

Is anti-Semitism becoming mainstream? Experts see alarming trend in media, campus and public life “The ongoing decades-old long demonization and dehumanization of the Jewish state has been misunderstood as political criticism when in truth, it has been the new virulent form of anti-Semitism,” said Dan Diker, a fellow and senior project director at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

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I Still Have a Reservation with Airbnb

 I still have a reservation with Airbnb

 

I have a confession to make. And it’s not something that I am proud of. In fact, what I’m about to reveal is deeply embarrassing and leaves me bursting with guilt. Perhaps I would go so far as suggesting that I feel that I have betrayed my family, my friends, and my neighbors living in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel.

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Posted by Josh Hasten in The Times of Israel

Spanish VIPs Get the Message (and Will Take it Home): BDS is Bad for Everyone

Spanish VIPs Get the Message (and Will Take it Home): BDS is Bad for Everyone

Photo: A group of Spanish politicians on a visit, sponsored by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Jordan Valley Regional Council, to businesses, farms, factories and educational institutions throughout Judea and Samaria. Credit: Josh Hasten.

 

Touring Israel, they are able to see joint partnerships between Israelis and Arabs at work, the high-quality produce prepared for export—and even witness firsthand the need to run for shelter as Hamas rockets fall.

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Posted by Josh Hasten in Jewish News Syndicate