Tag: Divestment

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss Israel's government failing to renew temporary regulations allowing Israeli law to apply to citizens in the West Bank, which is not part of Israel.
New York State has informed Ben & Jerry's and its parent company, Unilever, that it plans to divest from them due to the ice-cream maker's decision to stop sales in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Trump administration's State Department plans to defund international non-profit organizations that support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
"Anti-Zionism on Campus" edited by Andrew Pessin and Doron S. Ben-Atar discusses the rise of anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism on American campuses, focusing on events such as a performance by rapper Tamer Nafar at Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Conference.
Jewish students at the University of Massachusetts have filed a lawsuit to block a panel featuring Linda Sarsour, Marc Lamont Hill, Dave Zirin, and Roger Waters due to their anti-Israel views, despite concerns about equating free speech with intimidation.
The BDS movement's celebrated victory over the security giant G4S turned out to be a significant defeat due to new anti-boycott laws in several U.S. states.
Gustav Niebuhr, a professor and grand-nephew of Reinhold Niebuhr, a renowned Protestant theologian, is actively opposing the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s decision to divest from companies doing business with Israel.