Posts Tagged: BDS
More Peace, Less Process: The Key to Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has already visited the Middle East four times since President Barack Obama named him to the post back in...
The Voices of BDS
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement's biggest success is rooted in its 'soft power.' The ability to influence behavior through values, policies,...
Anti-Israel Linguist Noam Chomsky Behind Efforts to Prevent Stephen Hawking’s Israel Trip
Virulently anti-Israel critic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky urged famed British physicist Stephen Hawking to boycott the fifth annual Presidential Conference in...
For Popular Musicians, Performing in Israel Makes a Statement
Since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement got its start in 2005, the decision to schedule an appearance in Israel has been...
BDS – Belligerent, Disruptive and Silly
'Tis the season to cause folly? Hot off the trail of Israel Apartheid Week, a global festival of anti-Israel invective that appears on University campuses...
Happy Birthday, Israel
If countries were people and Israel was an American, it would begin to collect Social Security in nine months. It would be eligible for...
Am Israel Chai – The Jewish People Live
Walking to synagogue with my daughter Friday night, she told me that in school her teacher read the class a story about the...
New York Daily News Publishes BDS Founder’s Op-Ed—Then Bashes It
The New York Daily News published an op-ed Monday by BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) founder Omar Barghouti—and then summarily debunked and bashed the piece...
Lessons from Brooklyn College BDS, Barghouti, and Butler
Reader and correspondent David Lurie has directed me to some not well-publicized revelations about the Brooklyn College BDS event. To begin, the campus BDS chapter...
Response to Judith Butler at Brooklyn College
The ironic and the disingenuous are kin. Their commonality resides in a gap, which is the distance between what is said and something else. With...
Cynthia Ozick and William Shakespeare on Judith Butler: Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose
Will Judith Butler, who recently brought her frenzied campaign to expel Israel from the family of nations to Brooklyn College, be remembered as a latter-day...
Taxpayer Funded BDS at CUNY Is Illegitimate, Racist and Anti-Semitic
In my 13 years as a trustee of CUNY, I've had plenty of opportunity to observe the intellectual corruption and anti-Semitism of many in America's...
Defending Judith Butler in the Ivory Tower
The controversy that erupted when it became known that the prominent American post-structuralist philosopher Judith Butler will be awarded Frankfurt's prestigious Theodor Adorno Prize has...
Impenetrable: The Hollow Rhetoric of Judith Butler
That title appears a contradiction. We think of the impenetrable as dense, so thick and compacted it cannot be pierced. But what is hollow is...
