Illinois Moves to Blacklist Airbnb
Following a request by Governor Bruce Rauner, the Illinois Investment Policy Board (IIPB) on Wednesday unanimously voted to...
Illinois
Substitutes for victory in Afghanistan
President Trump might want to consider new and improved policy options.
Op-eds
Austrian bank in Iran freezes business fearing U.S. sanctions
Austria’s Oberbank, which, as a result of the 2015 nuclear deal became the first European bank to enter Iran’s financial system, announced it has not moved forward with business trans...
Op-eds
New Jersey Bans Business with Danish Bank for Israel Boycott
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on Wednesday at a menorah-lighting ceremony that the state has divested all of its investments from the Danish bank Danske due to its boycott of Israe...
Op-eds
Marxist-Leninist Party Sues German Banks Over BDS Account Closures
The Marxist-Leninist Party in Germany filed a lawsuit against the Deutsche Bank and the Postbank on Wednesday in the West German city of Essen, claiming the closure of the party's bank accou...
Op-eds
Colorado Sanctions Danish Bank for BDS Activity Against Israel Companies
Colorado has added Danish banking giant Danske to a blacklist for its anti-Israel business activities. Danske Bank has faced criticism and economic penalties for barring two Israeli defe...
Op-eds
New Jersey Fails to Enforce Anti-BDS Law with Danish Bank
The State of New Jersey has come under fire for allegedly not punishing a giant Danish bank that engages in anti-Israel economic activity. Danske Bank, the largest bank in the Scan...
Op-eds
Report: Iran And Russia Violated UN Weapons Sanctions
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia used a smuggling route to transport offensive weapons, allegedly in violation of UN Resolution 2231, Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on...
Op-eds
University of Chicago Considered Aggressive Response to ‘Watch Lists’ of Anti-Israel Students
University of Chicago administrators considered an aggressive response to "watch lists" of anti-Israel students posted online and in flyers distributed on campus by pro-Israel groups, according t...
Op-eds
If Trump Is Serious About Curbing Iran, He’ll Kill Boeing’s Plan to Sell It Planes
You may have missed it, but there was big news on the Iran front earlier this month. After much hesitation, Total, the French energy giant, plunged back into the Iranian...
Op-eds
US, German Politicians Urge PayPal to Close Neo-Nazi Party’s Account
American and German politicians called on PayPal to close the account of Germany’s neo-Nazi Der Dritte Weg (“The Third Way”) party. “Congressman Zeldin supports t...
Op-eds
Israel’s Anti-BDS ‘Start-Up’ Ministry
In a wide-ranging interview with The Jerusalem Post, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy officials announced the dawning of a new era in the government’s campaign against Isr...
Op-eds
Restarting the Fight Against Terror-Funding Charities
Busting terrorist charities here in the United States was a low priority for the last eight years under Barack Obama. It's time for the Trump administration to instruct the bureau...
Op-eds
Iran arrests two Catholics in new wave of brutality against Christians
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians – a mother and her son – in late February as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the countr...
Op-eds
Congress Introduces Bill to Combat BDS Worldwide
Congress introduced the Protecting Israel Against Economi...
Policy Briefs
The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
Op-eds
US-based BDS group seeks to lobby Congress
A campaign by a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions organization called “The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation” to lobby members of Congress against Israel on Capitol Hill has rais...
Op-eds
Netanyahu: “We Have Beaten” Boycott Campaign
Israel has defeated the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed at a Knesset hearing on Monday. Under questioning from...
Op-eds
Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare?
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t...
Op-eds
Computer hack helped feed an Islamic State death list
The attack seemed like a garden-variety digital holdup. A computer intruder, calling himself the “Albanian hacker,” left a message for the administrator of a website for an I...