After Germany’s largest teachers’ union strongly denounced the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as anti-Semitic, a branch of the union trashed copies of its September publication because it contained an article advocating in favor of anti-Israel boycotts, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jewish Chronicle on Monday. The Education and Science Workers’ Union (GEW) branch, located in the...

A 2,000-year-old scale weight belonging to the family of the Jewish high priest has been discovered by an archaeologist in Jerusalem, Ynet reported Tuesday. The artifact was located underneath the Tiferet Israel synagogue, which was built in the 18th century and destroyed by Jordan in 1948. Excavations under the synagogue have led to...

The New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign on Wednesday, The New York Daily News reported. The resolution, which rejected “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel,” passed...

Israel won its first two Paralympic medals of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games earlier this week: Rower Moran Samuel won a bronze medal in the women’s single sculls competition on Sunday, and sharpshooter Doron Shaziri took the bronze in the men’s 50-meter rifle final on Monday. Samuel, a former member of the Israeli...

An event sponsored by a member of Congress to promote boycotts of Israel was quickly cancelled after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D – Calif.) found out about the event from a prominent Jewish advocate, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday. The event was to have been hosted on Friday...

The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a scheduled anti-Israel course because its facilitator failed to ensure that the syllabus lived up to the school’s academic standards, the office of the chancellor said in an e-mail on Wednesday. The office of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks explained that the proposed class, “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” did not undergo “a sufficient...