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Steven Van Zandt performs at Madison Square Garden on May 11, 2026 in New York City. (Taylor Hill/WireImage via Getty Images)
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Rock legend Steven Van Zandt’s new gig: Holocaust education
By Andrew Lapin
The E Street Band guitarist tells JTA about his new music-focused high school curriculum — and his thoughts on why BDS is different from Sun City.
Dobrá Tea Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)
BDSDemocratic Socialists push for anti-Israel boycott in Oakland
By Toby Tabachnick
Steven Van Zandt performs at Madison Square Garden on May 11, 2026 in New York City. (Taylor Hill/WireImage via Getty Images)
November 13, 2026, 12:56 pm
Rock legend Steven Van Zandt’s new gig: Holocaust education
The E Street Band guitarist tells JTA about his new music-focused high school curriculum — and his thoughts on why BDS is different from Sun City.
By Andrew Lapin
The Illinois State Capitol Building on May 11, 2026, in Springfield, Illinois. (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
November 9, 2026, 3:22 pm
Illinois voters pass proposals objecting to state anti-BDS law
Pro-Palestinian groups see the symbolic victories as evidence of growing opposition to such laws.
By Andrew Lapin
Dobrá Tea Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)
November 9, 2026, 2:09 pm
Democratic Socialists push for anti-Israel boycott in Oakland
Several local businesses have joined onto the movement to boycott Israeli-made products
By Toby Tabachnick
A food crawl supported Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 8, 2026. (Credit: Courtesy End Jew-Hatred)
November 9, 2026, 12:35 pm
Anti-Jewish boycott backfires, as 10 times as many show up to support targeted Philly eateries
"This was more than solidarity. It was a refusal to let history repeat itself," Jayne Zirkle of End Jew-Hatred told JNS.
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman
Stronger than hate t-shirts and memorabilia. (Photo by David Rullo)
November 5, 2026, 9:00 pm
The apartheid libel has no place in Pittsburgh’s shops
"If you own a business and canvassers ask you to sign, please say no, and tell them why. If you are a customer, thank the shops that refuse, and spend your money there."
By Rona Kaufman
Bicycle tires (Credit: Pavel Danilyuk/Pexels)
November 5, 2026, 2:52 pm
“Incredible” Jewish support ahead of anti-Israel bicycle boycott ride
“We’ll show up strong, with pride and solidarity, and keep the focus on peaceful support,” Yehuda Sichel, who owns Huda in downtown Philadelphia, told JNS.
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman | JNS
Portrait of Israeli writer Naomi Ragen, in Jerusalem, April 23, 2004. (Yossi Zamir Flash90).
October 7, 2026, 8:39 am
Chicago Jewish theater drops Naomi Ragen play, fearing repercussions of working with Israeli writer
The playwright called the cancellation a return to “McCarthyism.”
By Lianne Kolirin
Ariana Harwicz in 2018 (Photo by Freddy eduardo, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
September 23, 2026, 2:24 pm
350 writers oppose Jewish novelist’s exclusion in Spain
Signatories demand public redress for Ariana Harwicz after Granada organizers cited her opposition to cultural boycotts of Israel.
By Canaan Lidor | JNS
Israeli poet Hamutal Bar-Yosef greets Palestinian neighbors. (Courtesy of Sheep Meadow Press, via the Forward)
September 22, 2026, 3:37 pm
An Israeli poet was scheduled to do a reading in New York. Then her publisher called
Despite Hamutal Bar-Yosef’s close ties to the Palestinian community at home, an anti-Israel climate prompted her publisher to reconsider bringing her to the U.S.
By Manya Brachear Pashman
A black studio camera (Credit: Donald Tong/Pexels)
September 22, 2026, 3:07 pm
Richmond film festival doubles down on Israeli films after it was boycotted last year
“I’m on high alert,” the festival founder told JNS, after anti-Israel activists targeted the event in 2025.
By Mike Wagenheim | JNS
A view over a new neighborhood in the Jewish settlement of Kedumim, in the West Bank on September 8, 2026 in Kedumim, West Bank. (Amir Levy/Getty Images)
September 9, 2026, 2:17 pm
UK, France, Canada to ban goods from Israeli settlements
Israel to retaliate by closing the British Consulate in Jerusalem.
By Tovah Lazaroff
A Brussels Airlines aircraft is seen at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, September 1, 2026. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)
September 2, 2026, 1:14 pm
Brussels Airlines workers threaten strike over flights to Israel
A Belgian union said that mandatory staffing was “particularly serious in the context of the ongoing war and the genocide in Gaza.”
By Shira Li Bartov
Dinaw Mengestu attends the PEN America 2026 Spring Literary Gala at American Museum of Natural History on May 14, 2026 in New York City. (Joy Malone/Getty Images)
July 14, 2026, 4:14 pm
PEN America president, defending Israel’s critics, resigns after report warns of threats to Jewish authors
Dinaw Mengestu criticized the literary free-speech group for failing to defend supporters of the boycott targeting Israel.
By Andrew Lapin
East End Food Co-op. (Photo by David Rullo)
June 22, 2026, 6:09 pm
East End Food Co-op’s board rejects boycott of Israeli-sourced products
“A boycott would not be consistent with our responsibility to steward the Co-op as a shared institution that serves all members equally and remains focused on its core mission.”
By David Rullo
East End Food Co-op. (Photo by David Rullo)
June 16, 2026, 2:37 pm
East End Food Co-op votes against boycott of Israeli products
The issue of banning Israeli products at the East End Food Co-op has been discussed since at least July 2024
By Toby Tabachnick
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