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Anti-Israel Boycott Defeat – Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Will Continue Being Sold Throughout Israel

Posted by Johanna Markind on June 30, 2022 14 Comments

Ben & Jerry’s owner Unilever has agreed to a new arrangement under which the ice-cream will continue to be sold throughout Israel, including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, and in Judea, and Samaria.

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Full 8th Circuit Upholds Arkansas Law Barring State Contracting With Israel Boycotters (BDS)

Posted by Johanna Markind on June 22, 2022 14 Comments

State power to regulate economic activity includes the power to regulate the purely commercial conduct of a boycott, appellate court says.

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Media Matters Threatens Elon Musk With Advertiser Boycott of Twitter

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2022 49 Comments

Media Matters pioneered the poisonous tactic of pressuring advertisers to deplatform and damage media opponents, and targets Musk with 24 other groups. Musk responds: "Who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information? Let’s investigate …"

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87 Groups To U.S. Dept. Education: Middle East Studies Programs Boycotting Israel Shouldn’t Get Federal Funds

Posted by Johanna Markind on April 24, 2022 10 Comments

Letter joined in by Legal Insurrection Foundation: "it is unacceptable that federal funds could be used to implement an academic boycott that directly contravenes the purposes for which these funds have been granted"

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Breaking With Past, American Association of University Professors Refuses to Condemn Boycott of Israel By Middle East Studies Ass’n

Posted by Johanna Markind on April 06, 2022 10 Comments

For decades, AAUP has condemned academic boycotts, including boycotts of Israel. Reflecting AAUP’s increasing radicalism and anti-Israel hostility, the association will not offer a statement condemning MESA’s boycott, according to a spokeswoman.

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Tufts University Rejects Calls From Student Activists to Boycott Jewish Campus Organizations Over Israel

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 05, 2022 2 Comments

"We strongly oppose this renewed campaign at Tufts"

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Israel-Boycotting Middle East Studies Association Loses Another Institutional Member, Takes Down Membership List

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 31, 2022 2 Comments

Seven institutional members have left MESA due to the Israel boycott resolution, including Brandeis University: "The resolution attacks the fundamental principles of academic freedom and association.... In light of this vote and the boycott, Brandeis dissociates from MESA and reaffirms our support for academic freedom."

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Academic Ethnic Cleansing: Middle East Studies Association Signs Onto Boycott of Israel

Posted by Johanna Markind on March 24, 2022 9 Comments

MESA has been captured by activists bent on the destruction of Israel by any means possible.

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Middle East Studies Association Defends Terror-Infused Palestinian University, While Moving To Boycott Israeli Academia

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 13, 2022 2 Comments

MESA membership is voting now on a resolution to boycott all Israeli academic institutions. After the IDF arrested five student operatives at a Hamas stronghold, MESA accused Israel of a "horrifying escalation of ongoing assaults on Palestinian universities.”

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Middle East Studies Association Losing Institutional Members As Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution Voting Starts

Posted by Johanna Markind on February 09, 2022 15 Comments

MESA website lists 8 fewer institutional members since MESA passed an initial BDS resolution, which now is in process of a membership ratification vote.

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Membership Voting To Ratify Anti-Israel Academic Boycott Starts At Middle East Studies Association

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 31, 2022 7 Comments

MESA members have from January 31-March 22 to decide whether to ratify a pro-BDS resolution, based on the resolution's unsubstantiated claims. MESA members' request for a discussion forum where resolution supporters can offer support for their claims has so far gone unanswered.

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Will George Washington U Let Middle East Studies Ass’n Operate International Anti-Israel Academic Boycott From Its HQ On GWU’s Campus?

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 25, 2022 2 Comments

LIF has now written to GWU three times asking whether MESA will be permitted to operate its planned discriminatory and anti-academic freedom boycott through GWU’s campus, which houses MESA’s HQ. To date, GWU has ignored our questions.

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#BoycottStarbucks Trends after Corporation Dumps Vaccine Mandate for Employees

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 20, 2022 55 Comments

Today's special blend features a slight hint of karma.

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Florida State Drops Middle East Studies Association Membership As Group Moves Towards Israel Boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 16, 2022 12 Comments

"The FSU Middle East Center did not renew its annual membership in MESA for the 2022 calendar year. Membership expired Dec. 31, 2021."

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Middle East Studies Association Members In “Legal Jeopardy” If Carry Out Israel Boycott On Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 31, 2021 0 Comments

“As a matter of law and principle, the State of Florida does not tolerate discrimination against the State of Israel or the Israeli people, including boycotts and divestments targeting Israel (the BDS movement)”

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Teammates of UPenn Trans Swimmer Considered Boycotting Final Meet but Feared Backlash

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 30, 2021 11 Comments

"Knowing they do not have backing from the school or NCAA, they’re reluctant to jeopardize their opportunity to make the elite Ivy League squad"

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Middle East Studies Association Boycotting Israel “Is Basically the Old Anti-Jewish Boycott”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 25, 2021 26 Comments

My appearance on Breitbart News Sunday On SiriusXM Radio with Joel Pollak: "Our U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries”

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