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An alumnus of Harvard University stands near an anti-Israel encampment set up at the university, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 14, 2024. (Michael Casey/AP)
December 5, 2025, 8:18 am
‘A very bad year’: Despite Gaza truce, academic boycotts pile on, threatening Israel’s future
Laws promoting academic freedom have limited the fallout in the United States and Europe, but some schools have found creative ways to isolate Israel under the radar
By Zev Stub
A protest on a university campus in the UK in February 2024. (CST Campus Report)
February 25, 2025, 12:50 pm
Facing 66% rise in academic boycotts, Israeli universities gear up to fight back
Boycotts of Israeli institutions and researchers won’t stop anytime soon and Israel needs to adapt to the situation, report finds
By Zev Stub
The University of Leipzig (iStock)
December 5, 2024, 3:05 pm
German cancelation of Israeli professor’s talk highlights widening academic boycotts
Even as University of Leipzig presents decision to nix lecture by historian Benny Morris as security-related, some view it as capitulation to BDS in a relatively friendly country
By Zev Stub
Emmanuel Nahshon outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2023, 11:11 pm
Foreign Ministry denies its own official’s claim public diplomacy activities halted
Ministry says NIS 100 million transferred to maintain government efforts to justify war on Hamas, after public diplomacy official said lack of funds has caused them to cease
By Michael Horovitz
UN Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland at a UN Security Council meeting in New York, November 28, 2022. (Video Screenshot/ UN; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 6, 2022, 3:10 pm
Foreign Ministry summons UN Mideast envoy over sympathy for Palestinian attacker
Tor Wennesland expressed ‘horror,’ offered ‘heartfelt condolences’ to family of Ammar Mifleh, who Israel says was shot dead by border policeman he fought with after stabbing attack
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A Border Police officer seeks to apprehend a Palestinian stabbing suspect in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on December 2, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)
December 3, 2022, 6:05 pm
UN Mideast envoy ‘horrified’ by killing of Palestinian stabber who wounded officer
Tor Wennesland sends ‘heartfelt condolences’ to family of Ammar Mifleh; Foreign Ministry: Envoy’s statement a ‘total distortion of reality’; Soldier: I stopped a significant attack
By Emanuel Fabian
Belgian Andrée Geulen-Herscovici poses during a visit to the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 18, 2007. (Orel Cohen/Flash 90)
June 3, 2022, 1:53 am
Belgian teacher who hid Jewish children during Holocaust dies at age 101
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici risked her life to help save around 1,000 children from the Nazis, was recognized by Yad Vashem and given honorary Israeli citizenship
By Michael Horovitz
File: Members of the Belgian Federal Parliament attend a plenary session, October 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
June 26, 2020, 9:02 am
Belgian parliament calls for sanctions against Israel if annexation goes ahead
Resolution urging creation of ‘list of efficient counter-measures’ passes with huge majority; second motion urging government to recognize Palestinian state postponed for two weeks
By Raphael Ahren
People dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews/ants are seen before the start of the Aalst Carnival's on February 23, 2020, in Aalst, Belgium. (James Arthur Gekiere/AFP)
February 25, 2020, 5:12 pm
Carnival that showed Jews as vermin ‘not anti-Semitic,’ Jewish Belgian MP says
Michael Freilich, Belgium’s only Orthodox lawmaker, says fewer than 50 of 6,000 participants presented anti-Jewish displays, compares Aalst procession to Israeli Purim parades
By Raphael Ahren
Brad Parker (Twitter)
February 22, 2020, 7:59 am
Pro-Palestinian activist: Belgium rescinded my UN invite after Israeli pressure
‘The political context has worked to silence our voice,’ says Brad Parker of Defence for Children International-Palestine, which Jerusalem has accused of extreme bias
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)
February 21, 2020, 10:16 pm
Belgian carnival organizers reject Israel’s call to cancel anti-Semitic parade
Last year’s event in Aalst featured a float depicting Jewish stereotypes standing over bags of money, leading UNESCO to drop festival as heritage event
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Brad Parker (Twitter)
February 11, 2020, 8:01 pm
Israel summons Belgian envoy over UN invite to controversial activist
Brad Parker is a senior member of Defence for Children International – Palestine, which Jerusalem alleges is linked to the PFLP terror group
By Agencies and Raphael Ahren
Emmanuel Nahshon outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2020, 4:55 pm
Belgium raps Israel envoy for tweet protesting UN invite to anti-Israel speaker
Ambassador summoned over retweet rebuking Brussels for hosting ‘terror supporters’ at upcoming Security Council session; Jerusalem insists Belgium cancel invite to Brad Parker
By Raphael Ahren
The UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
February 6, 2020, 11:01 pm
Israel fumes at Belgium for hosting ‘terror supporters’ at UN
Deputy ambassador summoned to Foreign Ministry for ‘very harsh’ rebuke after Brussels invites ‘radical’ pro-Palestinian activist Brad Parker to address Security Council
By Raphael Ahren
A model gesturing a hooked nose on the website if the University of Ghent, Belgium. (University of Ghent via JTA)
September 18, 2019, 6:15 pm
Israeli embassy in Belgium condemns anti-Semitic sign language gesture
Belgian university posts hooked-nose gesture meaning ‘Jew’ in video, drawing condemnation from European Jewish Association
By ToI Staff and JTA
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