Barnard has the highest proportion of Jewish students among secular colleges in the United States. Fully a third of its student body is Jewish, meaning that a significant number of those Jewish students either supported the divestment referendum or were uninterested in actively opposing it.
Peace group Jewish Voice for Peace has launched a campaign encouraging Jews to boycott so-called birthright trip to the occupied Palestinian territories.
For the past 18 years, Taglit-Birthright Israel has offered Jews from 67 countries across the world a free trip to visit Israel, claiming that it is their “birthright” to visit the country. Various periodic schemes are set up to allow
‘As far as we’re aware, this is the first time a college has summarily banned a group supporting Palestinian rights before students even held their first meeting,’ an attorney representing those hoping to establish a Students for Justice in Palestine group at Fordham told MintPress News.
NEW YORK --- Nearly a hundred students and community members rallied on Fordham University’s Manhattan campus before marching to nearby Columbus Circle on Monday. The protest marked the latest chapter in an ongoing effort by students at the Jesuit institution to found a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine on their campus. SJP
“American Jews do not need protection from passionate young activists organizing for justice. Rather, we need to join with justice-seeking people everywhere to fight white supremacy, racism and the genuine antisemitism that are reemerging in the very highest levels of government.”
Jewish Voice For Peace, an NGO that supports Palestinian liberation, announced that it ‘endorses the Movement for Black Lives platform in its entirety, without reservation’ amid pushback from Zionist organizations against a Black Lives Matter coalition.
HOUSTON --- Controversy is swelling over a policy platform published by a coalition of Black Lives Matter activists that includes calls for the United States to economically divest from Israel. “The US justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the
As conference attendees entered a hotel in downtown Austin, Texas, JVP activists rapped, drummed, and danced to illustrate the harm caused by Israeli occupation.
AUSTIN, Texas --- At least two dozen activists drummed, rapped, and danced as SXSW attendees streamed into the JW Marriott in downtown Austin, Texas, on Monday morning for a panel titled “Building The Perfect Country.” Panelists included Ido Aharoni, the consul general of Israel in New York and one of the key minds behind “
Stories from the activist group’s fake edition of the Times included a Palestinian village awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and Congress debating aid to Israel.
NEW YORK --- Big Apple commuters may have been a bit bewildered by the headlines in their morning copies of The New York Times on Tuesday. The New York chapter of Jewish Voice For Peace, a progressive Jewish group opposed to Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestinians, collaborated with local
