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New on Broader View: March 2016
- BDS: Palestinians don’t want a boycott by Mike Fegelman, CBC News, March 16
- Colleges & Universities: Anti-Zionism Fueling Escalation in Campus Anti-Semitism, AMCHA Initiative, March 14
- Law: Holding Disruptors Accountable by Yael Lerman Mazar, Times of Israel, March 3
- Liberals: The Real Enemies by Lex, Israellycool.com, March 16
- Political Process: Five Policy Options by Hillel Frisch, Begin-Sadat Center, March 29
More at Americans, Antisemitism, Churches, Europe, Gaza, Hamas, Innovation, Iran, Israel Lobby, Jerusalem, Jordan, Media, Palestinians, Polls, Public Diplomacy, Settlements, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey, UN, U.S.-Israel Relationship, Water.
- Taylor Force (28), a U.S. Army veteran and Vanderbilt student, killed in Jaffa terror attack
- Iran, violating UN resolutions, fires missiles marked “Israel must be wiped out”
- Soldier charged with manslaughter for killing Palestinian stabber neutralized after attack in Hebron
- Israeli economy grew 2.5% in 2015; foreign investment in Israel up 90%
- Yemenite Jews airlifted to Israel
- Israeli supreme court overrules government concession on natural-gas deal
- Statements supporting Israel and opposing anti-Israel boycotts recently issued by British Justice Secretary, Latin American parliamentarians, U.S. ambassador to Israel, hundreds of Columbia U. faculty members, the president of Univ. of Minnesota, Austrian student association, and Spanish city of Aviles. Boycott supporters include Vassar College student government and a Miss Canada finalist.
- University of California Regents adopt resolution condemning “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism”
- Virginia, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, and Arizona pass anti-BDS laws, joining Alabama, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee,
- Israeli security firm Cellebrite helped FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
- Cisco to acquire Israeli network chip vendor Leaba Semiconductor for $320M; Intel bought 3D video technology company Replay Technologies for $175M
- Israelis win international awards and honors in judo, ice skating, rhythmic gymnastics, Ju-Jitsu, nanotechnology, Forbes’ lists of billionaires and innovative companies; Israel named #8 world power, #11 in global happiness, and OECD’s #3 for quality of life
- Israel strengthens ties with Japan, South Africa, Kenya, Turkey, and Indonesia
- Recent visitors to Israel include U.S. VP Joe Biden, the president of Romania, prime minister of Bulgaria, U.S. Chairman of Joint Chiefs and NSA director, Canadian First Nations and African Muslim religious leaders, 30 Japanese government & business officials, Iraqi Kurds and Yazidis, Spanish entrepreneurs, comedian Rosanne Barr, actor Jan-Claude Van Damme, Arab-European and Indonesian journalists, scrabble players, and thousands of runners at Jerusalem Marathon
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