In a precedent-setting ruling, the student government at McGill University in Montreal found that anti-Israel boycotts violate its own anti-discrimination policies, Andrew Pessin reported in The Algemeiner on Monday. The Judicial Board of the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) ruled last week that “resolutions affirming the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York signed an executive order on Sunday barring the state from contracting entities that boycott Israel. “If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you,” said Cuomo, who described the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as an “economic attack” against Israel. “This state will not stand for the...

Foreign investments in Israel have nearly tripled since the Jewish state was first targeted for boycott by a coalition of Palestinian groups, indicating that efforts to isolate it are failing. Foreign capital flow to Israeli assets hit a record high of $285.12 billion last year, nearly triple of what this figure was in 2005, Bloomberg...

More than three dozen legislators representing 19 countries joined together on Saturday night to officially congratulate Israel on the occasion of Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. A letter from the legislators, which was sent to Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, celebrated the...

Israel has sent $20,000 worth of disaster relief supplies to Sri Lanka after heavy rains triggered deadly floods across much of the country. The disaster relief supplies include water pumps, water filters, solar lighting kits, LED torches, and 50,000 tablets for water purification. The aid was delivered by the Embassy of Israel...

An Israeli firm inaugurated the first commercial-size solar field in Georgia on Friday as part of the state’s renewable energy initiative. Energiya USA, a subsidiary of the Israel-based Energiya Global, won a 20-year contract with the state’s power utility in 2014 to provide 22.5 megawatts of electricity in a nearly 60-acre field located in Glynn County. This...