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Last week in BDS: As reported by The CJN‘s Paul Lungen, a resolution calling for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel was defeated at a conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA) earlier this month. A second resolution, which stated that the Palestinian campaign for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel “contradicts the MLA’s purpose to promote teaching and research,” passed.
While the rest of us languish in the body-and-soul-destroying tedium that is yet another interminable Canadian winter, The CJN‘s Pacific correspondent Lauren Kramer provides a snapshot of what it’s like to frolic in the seemingly unspoiled beauty of the Galapagos.
Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama, in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes last night, said his country abstaining from vetoing a UN Security Council Resolution criticizing Israel’s settlement activity, has not caused a “major rupture” in American-Israeli relations.
President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly confirmed he’ll appoint his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose family has donated thousands of dollars to organizations in West Bank settlements – long-held by the U.S. state department to be an impediment to peace in the region – as the envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
In the U.K., an employee of Amazon was fired after allegedly leaving a note in a package for a Jewish customer that read: “Greetings from Uncle Adolf.”
