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Press Releases

Zachor Legal Institute Submits Amicus Brief in Support of State of Arkansas’s Anti-Discrimination Law at 8th Circuit Court of Appeals

Judicial Watch Assists Zachor Legal Institute in Texas Court to Obtain Information on Qatari Government’s Funding of Texas A&M, a Public University

Zachor Legal Institute Files Amicus Brief In Support of the State of Arizona’s Anti-BDS Law with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Zachor Legal Institute Opposes UCLA Hosting Anti-Semitic Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference

Zachor Legal Institute’s Amicus Brief Filed in support of Arizona HB 2617

Zachor Legal Institute Statement on ACLU Lawsuit Challenging Kansas Anti-Discrimination Law

Corporate Alert on Significant Legal Risks to Companies Regarding Proposed UN Blacklist

Zachor Legal Institute Articles

While Trump Praises Qatar, Education Officials Seek Scrutiny

New York Times, July 2019

U.S. Universities’ Dangerous Lack of Foreign Gift Transparency

RealClearEducation, July 2019

Zachor to Court: BDS is the Latest Phase in Ancient Hate Against Jews

Jerusalem Post, June 2019

The Qatar Connection: Funding of U.S. University

Soldier of Fortune Magazine, May 2019

Thwarting ‘Terrorists in Suits’ in the Israel Boycott

Washington Times, May 2019

Is Qatar Foundation using university grants to fund radical individuals, groups on campus?

Change.org May Face Legal Action for ‘Censoring’ Petition Against Omar

Jerusalem Post, April 2019

Madonna Chooses Freedom Singing at Eurovision

Jerusalem Post, April 2019

Texas Approves Measure to Tweak Law that Bars Government to Contract with Businesses Supporting BDS

Cleveland Jewish News, April 2019

United States Denies Entry to BDS Founder and Leader Omar Barghouti

JNS, April 2019

Maryland’s Anti-BDS Law Prevents Discrimination Against Israel

Baltimore Sun, March 2019

Sorry, but anti-BDS laws don’t infringe on free speech

Houston Chronicle, February 2019

Anti-Semitism, BDS, and the ACLU

American Thinker, January 2019

Enough With The Hysterics. Anti-BDS Laws Are Perfectly Constitutional.

Forward, January 2019

Evidence mounting that US BDS groups are fronts for terror organizations

JNS, January 2019

Saying ‘Good-Bi’ to Bipartisan Support for Israel

Hamodia, January 2019

Elite Universities Hide Information on Funding from Ultraconservative Nation of Qatar

The Daily Caller, December 2018

Arizona Attorney General Argues BDS Seeks to ‘Strengthen’ Terror-Supporting Palestinian Groups

Alegemeiner, December 2018

Protecting Free Speech vs. Opposing Anti-Semitism

Times of Israel, December 2018

California needs anti-BDS bill to fight discrimination

Jewish Journal, September 2016

BDS and the First Amendment

The Louis D. Brandeis Center, March 2016

BDS Ain’t New: The Arab League Boycott Gets a Makeover

Huffington Post, February 2016

(co-authored with Adam Milstein)

BDS, Trade and Congress

The American Thinker, October 2015.

Zachor Legal Institute Scholarly Work

The BDS Movement: That Which We Call a Foreign Boycott, by Any Other Name, Is Still Illegal
Analysis of boycotts against Israel promoted by the “BDS Movement” in the United States and federal laws that are violated by such activity with a framework for prosecuting participants.

The Inapplicability of First Amendment Protections to BDS Movement Boycotts
Analysis of First Amendment jurisprudence to demonstrate that boycotts of Israel sponsored by the BDS Movement in the United States are not protected free speech

Boycotting the Boycotters: Turnabout Is Fair Play Under the Commerce Clause and the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine

Analysis of claims that State anti-boycott laws violate the Commerce Clause and Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine.

Legal Filings

Zachor Legal Institute Sends Notice of Unlawful Discrimination to Airbnb
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Zachor Legal Institute Files Amicus Brief In Support of the State of Arizona’s Anti-BDS Law with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
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Zachor Legal Institute Letter to the DOJ Outlining & Recommending RICO Prosecution
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