Posts Tagged: BDS Israel
SPME BDS Monitor: Activists Try to Turn the World Against Israel
April saw confrontations emerge between faculty members opposed to BDS and academic organizations that have adopted BDS resolutions, including legal action, that took place between...
When BDS Reaches Its Logical Conclusion
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, despite all its noise, has so far avoided the logical step of actually boycotting all Israeli products and inventions....
Lies, Damn Lies and Faculty Lies
JNS.org - To understand the significance of the newly announced legal challenge against the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel, we need to go back around 18...
BDS Is a Disneyland of Hate
What truly puzzles the Israeli public is "Israeli Apartheid Week," being staged on several US college campuses these last few weeks. A spin-off of the anti-Israel...
‘Intersectionality’: BDS Professor Links Campus Rape to Israel
Simona Sharoni is a professor, Israel-hater, BDS-er, and one of those who gave Rachel Corrie college credit to go to Israel with the ISM. Her niche...
As BDS Opponents Move From Campuses to State Capitols, California Is Next
JNS.org - Close observers of the anti-Israel Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement have long kept a weather eye on California. But that attention has mostly...
SPME BDS Monitor: Presidential Candidates Renounce Boycotts as Antisemitism Spreads
The BDS movement suffered major losses in March as politicians and legislators condemned the movement. Particularly important were condemnations from all remaining US presidential candidates,...
New York Times Op-Ed Misleads on the True Nature of BDS
The New York Times op-ed about the BDS movement by Eric Alterman is at times both accurate and deceptively misleading. Yes, not all BDS activity at universities are antisemitic. Characterizing them as such,...
Anti-BDS Conference Is a Comment on the Sad State of Our Times
JNS.org - A few days after returning to Israel from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, I attended another conference in Jerusalem. But unlike...
BDS Targets Not Only Israel, But the US and Entire Democratic World
In recent years, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has steadily advanced a poisonous culture of hate and antisemitism in the United States. Across...
Despite Impressive Victories Against BDS, the Battle Is Not Won
“The Zionist pushback was expected.” Thus lamented the zealously anti-Israel Mondoweiss website after McGill University’s student body, once again, rejected the student union's latest attempt to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
California Strengthens Proposed Anti-BDS Legislation
Sponsors of a bipartisan bill to prevent the California state government from contracting with companies that participate in the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against...
BDS and ‘Intersectionality’ — a Match Made in Hell
Have you heard of “intersectionality,” the latest strategy of Israel-haters who, like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s classic, reside in a “looking-glass world,” where clocks run...
Palestinians Arrest Teachers and Anti-Israel Protesters Couldn’t Care Less
JNS.org - American college professors have now shown their true colors when it comes to Israel. Remember how 126 historians recently tried to get the American Historical Association (AHA)...
