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In Victory for American Freedom, Judge Mark Cohen Calls “Unconstitutional” Georgia’s Ban on Boycotting Israel for Brutalizing Palestinians

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ross Williams at the Georgia Reporter writes that federal judge Mark Cohen on Monday characterized as unconstitutional a Georgia state law that prohibited contractors for the Georgia state government from boycotting Israel. Cohen is United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. This […]

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Pompeo’s attempt to Penalize Boycotters of Israel aims to Strengthen White Nationalism and Roll back Civil Rights

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Carol Morello and Steve Hendrix at the Washington Post report that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israeli squatters on Palestinian land in the West Bank on Thursday (well, that is my characterization, they didn’t put it that way). In a bid to please his evangelical constituency and potential Jewish […]

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Federal Court Allows American Studies Association Boycott of Israel to Stand: Victory for BDS

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( American Studies Association) – In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the lawsuit filed against the American Studies Association (ASA), its executive director, and eight former ASA officers or committee members: Lisa Duggan, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Sunaina […]

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Nelson Mandela’s Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced “Israel’s ongoing ill-treatment and oppression of Palestinian people, and the historic prophetic role played by the church and international […]

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Lawsuit Against Salaita & American Studies Assn for Boycotting Israel Dismissed

Democracy Now!

These desperate lawsuits brought to silence advocates of Palestinian rights make it even clearer who wants to silence debate

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War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel Agenda became USG Priority

Middle East Monitor

“Israel Anti-Boycott Act” is the most egregious of such interventions, for it strikes down the First Amendment

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Why Politics in 2019 will have a Lot More Backbone

Tracey L. Rogers

Democracy in its current iteration can no longer sustain us

Arab Americans

1st Palestinian-American Congresswoman will Wear Traditional Dress for Swearing In

TeleSur

& She will lead a congressional delegation to Occupied West Bank, Palestine, to present an alternative perspective on the conflict.

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Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure

Middle East Monitor

Two leading chefs have pulled out of the Tel Aviv-hosted Round Tables food festival following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, reported Haaretz. Gabrielle Hamilton, chef, and owner of the Prune restaurant in New York, cancelled, following the earlier cancellation by Ana Ros, a world-acclaimed chef from Slovenia. Ahead of the festival, […]