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Press Releases

Zachor Legal Institute Announces the Publication of our Law Journal Article Targeting UN/BDS Inspired Boycotts of Israel

Zachor Legal Institute Advocates for Social Media Companies to Rid their Platforms of Antisemitism

OCR to Investigate UCLA for Title VI Violations Based on Complaints Filed by StandWithUs and Zachor Legal Institute

Zachor Legal Institute Announces Release of The New Anti-Semites, Report Detailing Anti-Semitism Rampant in BDS Movement

Zachor Legal Institute Submits Amicus Brief to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Support of Texas’ Anti-Discrimination (Anti-BDS) Law

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

BDS groups plan anti-annexation ‘Day of Rage’ across the US

Jerusalem Post, June 2020

Note to social-media companies: Anti-Semitism is hate content

Groups on far-left, far-right co-opt Black Lives Matter movement to target Israel

Department of Education to Investigate UCLA Over SJP Conference

LA Jewish Journal, February 2020

Using the Power of the Executive to Protect Jewish Students

The American Spectator, January 2020

Enforcing President Trump’s Executive Order on Campus

The American Spectator, January 2020

Rockets and booby-trapped balloons in the name of peace?

JNS, January 2020

Peace Love & Rock n’ Roll in the Middle East

Times of Israel, January 2020

Anti-Semitism in US linked to BDS movement, new NGO-backed report finds

Fox News, December 2019

Trump’s Executive Order Rightly Recognizes That Jews Are More Than Just A Religious Group

The Daily Wire, December 2019

Report: Anti-Israel ‘BDS’ Groups Are Weaponizing Leftist Rhetoric Against Jews

Daily Caller, December 2019

New report suggests BDS gaining popularity among far-right groups

Jerusalem Post, December 2019

Israel’s arrest of Palestinian terrorist leader highlights ‘extensive overlaps’ between BDS and terror groups

JNS, December 2019

New report exposes how BDS movement uses veil of social justice to spread Jew-hatred

JNS, December 2019

European Union Slaps ‘New Kind Of Yellow Star On Jewish-Made Products’

The Federalist, November 2019

Children’s Book Reading Prompts Legal Action Against Highland Park

JNS, September 2019

Europe Considers The Nazi Idea Of Requiring Jewish Businesses To Identify Themselves On Labels

JNS, September 2019

Europe Considers The Nazi Idea Of Requiring Jewish Businesses To Identify Themselves On Labels

The Federalist, August 2019

Are Terror Groups Recruiting On College Campuses?

Daily Wire, August 2019

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

Discrimination as a Business Policy: The Misuse and Abuse of Corporate Social Responsibility Programs
A review of the use of corporate social responsibility programs to undermine traditional theories of corporate governance and the legal risks to corporations and their boards of adopting discriminatory BDS-related programs.

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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