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US launches "civil rights" probe at Columbia University as Zionist censorship, smears intensify

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 14:56

A complaint by a professor at Columbia University who co-founded the anti-Palestinian Zionist group “Scholars for Peace in the Middle East” has resulted in the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opening an investigation into the university.

Lawsuit filed against Olympia Food Co-op, seeks to force end to Israel boycott

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 07:38

A group of pro-Israel activists has filed a lawsuit against the Olympia Food Co-op (OFC) to try to force it to end its boycott of Israeli goods.

On 6 September, The Electronic Intifada exclusively revealed that the activists who had threatened the lawsuit were working in close collaboration with StandWithUs, a national pro-Israel organization, and that their plans had been discussed in advance with an Israeli government official.

Uncovered: Israel's role in planned US lawsuit to fight BDS

Ali Abunimah
6 September 2011
An exclusive investigation finds that pro-Israel activists, backed by an Islamophobic pro-Israel group and with the knowledge of the Israeli government, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boycott Israeli products.
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