Posts Tagged: BDS
SPME BDS Monitor: US State Legislatures Fight Back, But Soccer Ban a Risk
Introduction BDS on campuses ended the year with limited gains and important setbacks. The fight has also moved decisively into state legislatures, which are voting in...
The Insidious Marketing of the BDS Campaign
The boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement promotes itself as a non-violent "civil society" human rights organization trying to bring peace to a victimized people...
UK Student Union BDS Measures Are Alienating Jewish Students, Says NUS Vice President
A decision by the U.K.’s largest student union to adopt Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) measures against Israel has already started to alienate the British...
Tel Aviv Legal Group Threatens Park Slope Food Co-op With Lawsuit Over BDS Measures
A prominent Israeli activist litigation group has threatened the Park Slope Food Co-op with a lawsuit if the supermarket adopts a boycott of Israeli products,...
Washington Supreme Court Paves Way to Reopen Olympia Co-op BDS Case
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a ruling by a lower court that ordered five plaintiffs who sued the Olympia Food Co-op over a...
President Rivlin Warns BDS Movement is ‘Strategic Threat’ to Israeli Academia
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin offered to be a "soldier" in combating what he warned is the rising trend toward the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Speaking...
Public Editor Rebukes New York Times Reporter for Asking Jewish PhD Candidate ‘Demeaning’ Questions
A reporter for the New York Times came under fire for asking a Jewish Ph.D. candidate "insulting and demeaning" questions for an article on the...
Why Won’t Jewish Leaders Fight BDS?
Press reports about the dinner in Washington last week honoring Abe Foxman's 50 years as head of the ADL had the White House Chief of...
BDS Gains Strength, But Still Faces Challenges on College Campuses
Last month's student election at Stanford University included allegations of anti-Semitism by the Students of Color Coalition against Molly Horwitz - who identifies as Jewish and...
Borough Park Jews Blamed for Failure of Anti-Israel Park Slope Coop Boycott
Activists in favor of boycotting Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Coop lamented in an article the strong showing of Borough Park residents among...
Israeli Media Weighs Conservative, Labour Leaders as UK Election in Full Swing
As British citizens headed to the polls on Thursday for what appears to be the closest election in decades, Israeli media weighed in on which...
Celebrated Singer Dionne Warwick Says Roger Waters’ Political Views on Israel ‘of No Concern’
Legendary American singer Dionne Warwick said on Wednesday that her decision to perform in Israel this month would not be swayed by the "hard pressures"...
BDS Suffers Dual Defeats as Anti-Israel Resolutions Fail at CA Community College, Bowdoin College
The anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement suffered two resounding blows this week, in college campuses across the U.S. Bowdoin College in Maine defeated on Wednesday...
BDS Movement Infiltrates the Virginia State Bar
JNS.org - For just more than a month now, the Virginia State Bar (VSB)—which, it should be noted, is a state body working with...
