BDS activists say they successfully pressured a college to end its Israel study-abroad program. Did they?

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – An elite West Coast liberal arts school will no longer pre-approve students to study abroad at Haifa University, in a decision announced after its student government voted against the program in protest of Israel. Anti-Zionist activists at Pitzer College and beyond are cheering the change as a victory for the movement to […]

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IDF is investigating after troops kill Palestinian who converted to Judaism to honor his grandfather, who rescued Jews

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israeli military is investigating reservist soldiers who shot dead David Ben Avraham, a Palestinian who converted to Judaism to honor his grandfather for rescuing Jews during the deadly 1929 Hebron riots. The soldiers considered the 63-year old suspicious when he got off the bus on Thursday in the West Bank near […]

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Canadian Jewish federation ‘dismayed’ by theater’s decision to postpone Jewish film festival over security fears

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Canadian movie theater said it was postponing a Jewish film festival, over the objections of the local Jewish federation, owing to “security and safety concerns at this particularly sensitive time.” The Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, Ontario said in a Tuesday statement that it decided over the weekend to postpone the Hamilton […]

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Department of Education increases transparency around Title VI discrimination investigations post-Oct. 7

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Since Oct. 7, the federal office that handles investigations into campus civil rights has kept many details of its work confidential — including which cases focus on antisemitism. But now the U.S. Department of Education has begun revealing more about the investigations it has launched since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. […]

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As Israel struggles to win international support, its star English-language spokesman is suspended

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Eylon Levy, the English-language spokesman for Israel widely praised for defending the beleaguered country in English-language media, has been suspended and is unlikely to return to his role, Israeli media is reporting. According to the Israeli media reports, Levy was suspended over his response on X, formerly Twitter, to Britain’s top diplomat, […]

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