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Senate grills Creative Australia over funding for anti-Israel website

 Creative Australia has been forced to defend its decision to allow an antizionist website to raise tax-deductible donations. Pearls and...

NZ academics push pension fund to divest from Israel

More than 700 New Zealand academics have signed a letter urging UniSaver, the national university pension fund, to divest...

BDS threats to cancel Israeli cycling team an ‘obtuse moral inversion’

Threats to disrupt the two biggest cycling races in the world over Israeli participation are an “obtuse moral inversion”...

Don’t drink Coca-Cola says ABC’s TikTok channel

National broadcaster ABC has removed a post on its TikTok account promoting the boycott of Israeli goods. Amal Wehbe is...

Melbourne inner-city council votes for BDS

The inner-city Melbourne Darebin Council voted unanimously to seek ways to get out of contracts from suppliers supporting Israel. The...

South African activist changes after not finding ‘Black Only’ restrooms in Israel

Desperate to find a restroom after a nearly nine-hour flight from Johannesburg, South African university student Klaas Mokgomole grabbed his...

BDS versus modern art

“BDS appears here as contemporary art’s foil. BDS undermines contemporaneity’s claims of autonomy and emancipatory effects, fixes its meanings...

UK to pass legislation preventing public bodies from engaging in boycotts

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has resolved to pass legislation that will stop public bodies from adopting...

Sydney Festival: a chance to hear from the Israeli choreographer

New Israel Fund Australia will host a conversation with acclaimed Israel prize-winning choreographer and contemporary dancer Ohad Naharin. Over the...

Hamas bedfellow of Australian BDS supporters

All those who joined the boycott of the Sydney Festival created by its acceptance of a A$20,000 sponsorship by...

Secord calls on arts minister to introduce anti-BDS laws

NSW Shadow Arts Minister Walt Secord has called on the new NSW Arts Minister Ben Franklin to introduce American-style...

There is no place in our Australia for intolerance

As 2021 came to a close, we all reflected on the challenging times we have lived through in recent...

The Sydney Festival’s “important stance”

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has commented on the "very important stance of the Sydney Festival in...

Emma Watson draws controversy over solidarity with ‘Free Palestine’ movement on social media

On the same weekend that Harry Potter, the series that made her famous, celebrated its 20th anniversary, the Instagram...

Black Eyed Peas lead member defies Palestinian pressure to boycott Israel

Black Eyed Peas lead band member will.i.am said he would not get into politics after Palestinian activists pressured him...

BDS supporters harass Miss South Africa on competing in Israel-hosted pageant

The beauty queen who will represent South Africa in the 2021 “Miss Universe” pageant set to take place in...

High Court rules BDS-supporting Professor can get Israel Prize

Professor Oded Goldreich, of the Weizmann Institute of Science and who voiced support for boycotts against Israeli institutions, can receive the Israel Prize, the High Court of Justice ruled.

The inevitable inequitable application of proposed laws

Ben & Jerry's decision to stop selling ice cream in Jewish communities in the West Bank has caused ripples - and may be a breach of US laws that prohibit discriminatory boycotts.

NSW Labor Israel Action Committee endorses Albanese and Minns’ opposition to BDS

NSW Labor Israel Action Committee (LIAC) formally welcomed and endorsed statements by Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese and NSW State Labor leader Chris Minns opposing the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement.

Ben & Jerry’s Jewish co-founders back company’s decision on boycott

In their op-ed, they also accused Israel of an “illegal occupation” that “violates the basic human rights of the Palestinian people who live under the occupation.”