Ma’an reports that an ethics committee from the Norwegian gov’t will be going to the West Bank at the end of the month to investigate what the government pension fund has invested in. It owns shares of the Africa Israel…
I went to the Telluride Film Festival two years back and the Israeli consulate was thanked in the program. I wonder if it was for as small a sum as this. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Committee flipped out when they…
Does the divestment campaign make you uncomfortable? It used to make me uncomfortable. And then Gaza ended all my misgivings. Not to mention the fact that most divestment campaigns are aimed specifically at the Occupation, which I’ve visited and which…
Omar Barghouti, a Tel Aviv University student who has called for academic boycott of Israeli schools, was the subject of a post on this site yesterday. I commended the TAU president’s refusal to expel Barghouti despite pressure to do so….
The following letter speaks for itself. It is from the President of Tel Aviv University and is posted on a new site that monitors “anti-Israel” expression on campuses within Israel. There is a campaign, evidently, to expel a Palestinian student…
One of the most interesting speeches given at the AIPAC Policy Conference was one that received the least media attention. AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr addressed the capacity crowd Sunday night before Newt Gingrich, and he came with a stern…
Can academia be bought by ideological lobbyists? What about prestige academia? Here is a stunning piece in the Yale Globalist (passed along by the tireless Bob Feldman) about a study on mathematical models for counter-terrorism strategy that has been undertaken…
Nadia Hijab, writing for Agence Global, says that the boycott movement is biting, and hurting businesses: The protest, organized by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, is part of a drive to “Hang Up On Motorola” until it…
Further pressure on the special relationship. This complaint filed with the U.S. Trade Representative by the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy says that the free-trade agreement with Israel has not worked in the U.S.’s best interest, with Israelis ripping…