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Spanish Court Orders Municipality To Rescind Boycott of Israel

By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The Spanish city Velez Malaga has rescinded its city council’s resolution to boycott Israeli businesses after a local court ruled it illegal, as reported by Jewish Telegraphic Agency. On Aug. 24, a Malaga court ruled that the city’s boycott of Israel was illegal since it violates constitutional principles that guarantee

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Documentary Of Anne Frank Screened Illegally In Iran

By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The first documentary of Anne Frank in Arabic hs been secretly screened in Iran, a country whose leaders openly deny that the Holocaust happened. On Aug. 17, Deadline reported that Croatian film director Jakov Sedlar screened  Anne Frank: Then and Now in an Iranian provincial theatre without approval from the authorities. The

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Students From German School Dress As Nazis, Attack Jewish Students in Argentine Nightclub

  By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada While Argentinian-Jewish high school students were enjoying their graduation festivities at a costume party hosted in a nightclub, little did they know that their party would be crashed by Nazis. That’s right: Nazis. That would be 50 students from another high school dressed as Nazis, who not only

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German University Students Condemn Boycott And Sanctions Movement

By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The student government at Leipzig University in Germany passed a resolution that condemns the boycott and sanctions movement against Israel, deeming it antisemitic. On Aug. 2, the student government passed the resolution “to condemn the anti-Semitic BDS campaign,” it also stated that it is “against anti-Semitic measures such as

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Anti-Israel Hate Group Sanctioned From University of California Irvine Campus

By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The University of California’s Irvine (UCI) campus has sanctioned pro-Palestinian group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for disrupting a film screening and intimidating Jewish students. The pro-Palestinian group protested the screening of Israeli film Beneath The Helmet, which was hosted by Students Supporting Israel  (SSI) and Hillel. The students were swarmed by

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