NIH bans grants for schools that boycott Israeli companies
The new policy also bars schools from funding if they operate any DEI programs
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Opinion Demography as Destiny: Israel’s Growing Right Shapes Law, Military
The increasingly progressive Atlantic Monthly correspondent and former Forward staffer Jeffrey Goldberg (for the last time, no, we’re not the same person) posted a link on his blog Tuesday to an online essay — which he called “hard to disagree with” — by senior research fellow Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine….
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Opinion Why Is Israel’s Boycott Law Different From America’s?
Given the widespread protests over Israel’s newly enacted anti-boycott laws, a great many friends of Israel are wondering aloud why the fuss — specifically, why is this law treyf while the anti-boycott measures passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 have not aroused all these protests?…
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Opinion Next for Knesset: Bill To Probe ‘Leftist’ NGOs
Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, flush from its victory in the boycott law debate, plans to bring another gag-rule bill to the Knesset floor for final vote next week, Ynet reports. The bill would create a Knesset investigative committee to examine the funding of “leftist” NGOs that “delegitimize” the Israeli army. Members of the Likud…
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Opinion Knesset Outlaws Boycotts of Israel or Settlements
The Knesset gave final approval to the Boycott Bill after a stormy debate. Here is the Ynet.com report (in Hebrew). Here is the Jerusalem Post report (in English). The final vote was 47 to 38, according to the Haaretz.com report. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present for the debate or vote. Knesset speaker Reuven…
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