Posts Tagged: anti-Israel boycotts
What Andrew Yang Got Right About BDS
We’re used to politicians mangling history, whether out of carelessness or partisanship. So it was a breath of fresh air when New York City mayoral...
BDS Continues to Fizzle Out
The antisemitic BDS movement never had a serious impact on Israel; it had no impact whatsoever on Israeli policy, and has failed to accomplish its...
The Fight Against BDS Enters 2021
The year 2020 saw the BDS movement pushed back to academia and progressive politics. The normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco,...
BDS Proponents Push for Publicity as New School Year Looms
The most important BDS incident in August was the refusal by Israel to admit two leading BDS supporters, Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar...
Standing With BDS Is Standing With Terror
A November 2018 article by Amir Shuan that was published in Yediot Ahronot shockingly revealed extensive relationships between the BDS movement and terrorists. While the...
BDS Charade: United Church of Christ’s ‘Divestment’ From Israel
It was a charade -- nearly every last word of it. A few years ago, the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant denomination in...
Pro-Israel Faculty Members Must Speak Out on Campus
With the normalizing of antisemitism comes the normalizing of BDS. Professors and academics who support and advocate for BDS feel empowered and emboldened by the...
BDS Advocates Try to Split the Jewish Community From Israel
In July, the BDS movement accelerated its efforts to divide the American Jewish community from Israel and intensify internal divisions in the latter. Two incidents in...
The Ongoing Myth of BDS Success
Anytime that a student government votes to divest from Israel or a celebrity chooses not to perform in Israel, a cry goes out throughout the...
SPME BDS Monitor: A Rapid Descent Into Antisemitism
Disparate BDS events in February suggest that the anti-Israel boycott movement is being forced to reorient itself due to unprecedented pushback. This included US pressure that...
Legal Summit in Jerusalem Tackles International BDS Efforts
JNS.org - Top legal experts recently gathered in Jerusalem for a three-day summit focused on countering a global delegitimization campaign against Israel. The first-ever Legal Network Initiative was...
Israel’s Economy Minister Thanks US Lawmaker for Pushing Anti-BDS Legislation
JNS.org – Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen met with US Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) in Washington, DC, on Nov. 15, and thanked him for...
Palestinian Movie Theater’s Boycott of ‘Wonder Woman’ Exudes ‘Weakness and Fear,’ Israeli Official Says
The decision by a Ramallah movie theater to not screen the blockbuster film “Wonder Woman” due to the starring role of Israel actress Gal Gadot...
Israeli Spokesman: Attempts by BDS Movement to Paint False Image of Success Indicate ‘Desperation and Lack of Integrity’
An Israeli government representative slammed the BDS movement on Friday for falsely implying that a prominent US literary society had decided to boycott the Jewish...
