evade accountability when they are caught in a blatant lie for the benefit of Israel.
Earlier this week I wrote about a major legal victory for supporters of
Palestinian rights in Spain.
BDS País Valencià (
Palestinian Boycott, Divestiture, Sanctions of Israel settlement products) called on a music festival to cancel a performance by
Matthew Paul Miller, the singer who uses the stage name
Matisyahu, because he had made
anti-Palestinian statements and had helped raise money for the Israeli occupation army.
European Union anti-Semitism coordinator
This month, a court in Valencia threw out hate crime accusations against the activists. The judges found that they were only contesting Miller’s presence in the festival because of his alleged views on Israeli policy, “not because of his Jewish status, religion or any other circumstance.”
Sheldon Adelson, billionaire patron of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, has died aged 87.
Adelson s company, Las Vegas Sands, on Tuesday announced the death of the casino magnate, saying that he had died from complications related to treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma on Monday evening.
In the statement, his company said Adelson had a gone from being a teenager selling newspapers on a street corner to becoming one of the world s most successful entrepreneurs and said that his impact on the integrated resort and hospitality industry would be everlasting .
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Estimated by Forbes to have a net worth of $35bn, Adelson poured his money into right-wing political causes in Israel and the United States.
December 15, 2020 at 5:16pm
More than a thousand artists, educators, and academics who live in Germany or have ties to cultural institutions there on Monday signed an open letter demanding the German parliament, or Bundestag, reverse a 2019 advisory resolution condemning the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) as “anti-Semitic.” The missive came on the heels of another open letter, noting that thanks to the resolution, “accusations of antisemitism are being misused to push aside important voices and to distort critical positions.” Released on December 10, it was signed by thirty-two directors of German arts institutions, who in their statement announced the formation of Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit (“world openness”), which rejects the resolution as “dangerous” and detrimental to the democratic public sphere.
Editor’s note: Hours after this article was published, its author was disinvited from the panel discussion. The organizer and moderator of the event, David Lehrer, said this was because he was afraid the issues raised in the OpEd might distract from the conversation.
As president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, I am headlining a panel Tuesday afternoon alongside Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League. The event is titled “After four years of bigotry and hatred now what?” and the speakers also include the heads of the NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens.
I agreed to be on the panel, which was organized by Jews United for Democracy & Justice and Community Advocates Inc. (and is co-sponsored by The Forward), despite the fact that dozens of groups have, since the summer, been calling on progressives to #DropTheADL. In an open letter, the groups object to what they call the ADL’s “harmful practices,” including “a histo