Posts Tagged: BDS
Major American Jewish Groups ‘Dismayed’ by ‘Misguided’ EU Labeling of Israeli Settlement Products
American Jewish groups across the board echoed Israel's harsh condemnation of new European Union guidelines for labeling products made in territory captured by Israel during the 1967...
Campus Group Gathers Testimonials From UC Jewish Students Experiencing Antisemitism
The campus antisemitism watchdog AMCHA Initiative announced on Tuesday its new website, which chronicles student testimonials of antisemitism across the University of California school system. AMCHA said so far it has collected...
Jewish Human Rights Group Ad in Guardian Compares Boycott of Israel to Nazi Boycott of Jews
The UK-based group Jewish Human Rights Watch placed an ad in the Guardian on Friday calling on British universities to distance themselves from another ad earlier this week calling for an...
It’s Official: BDS Is Hate Speech
JNS.org - A few years ago, the British antisemitism scholar David Hirsh remarked that while Israel was the ostensible target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
Jewish Human Rights Organization Calls on New Yorkers to Shun Roger Waters Concert; Theater Offers Refunds
A major international Jewish organization this week urged New Yorkers not to attend Friday's performance by British rockstar Roger Waters at the Bay Street Theater in Sag...
Israel Law Center Files ‘Charge’ Against Major US Labor Union Over BDS Resolution
The Tel Aviv-based legal group Shurat HaDin - The Israel Law Center filed a complaint with the United States National Labor Relations Board over a...
Quick Pushback Is Needed as BDS Efforts Grow
In September there were a number of international BDS incidents. The Reykjavik city council’s decision to boycott all Israeli products was quickly ridiculed; now only...
What ‘Black Lives Matter’ and BDS Have in Common
I don’t like Mondays. Let me correct that. I fear Mondays, but not for the usual reasons. Every Monday morning, Chicago area residents wake up to news of...
UC-Irvine History Professor: Boycott Pro-Israel Singer Matisyahu
As noted at the Fousesquawk blog, UC-Irvine history professor and anti-Israel agitator Mark LeVine, in his latest Al-Jazeera op-ed, defends a Spanish music festival's initial (and later reversed) decision to exclude Jewish...
Fight BDS by Buying Israeli Products, Pressing Back on Boycotts
The key to defeating BDS may come down to making the price of boycotts too high for businesses and cultural centers to bear -- forcing them...
Literary Giant Howard Jacobson Savages Anti-Zionists Who Reject Criticism
Man Booker Prize-winning British author Howard Jacobson lashed out at anti-Zionists who reject criticism, in an op-ed piece for the The Independent on Friday. "The truism that criticism...
International Jewish Human Rights Organization Ridicules Luxembourg Supermarket Chain for ‘Caving’ Selectively to BDS
A major international Jewish human rights organization expressed concern over Luxembourg's largest supermarket chain's decision to pull Israeli produce from its shelves, following an aggressive campaign by...
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East BDS Monitor: Boycotts Have Become Common, Normalized
Cultural boycotts of Israel and Israel supporters were suddenly prominent at the end of the summer, as artists, films and exhibitions became targets. Most notable...
Student Conference Imparts Solidarity to Pro-Israel Leaders
JNS.org - On a hot mid-August day in Boston, when many of the city’s tens of thousands of college students had yet to arrive in their...
