Posts Tagged: Boycotting Israel
On Yom Kippur, New York Times Turns to BDS Advocate as Antisemitism Expert
The New York Times has a nasty pattern of publishing attacks on Jews and Israel on the sabbath or holidays, making it harder for observant...
Helen Mirren Explains Why She Ignores BDS Pressure, Praises Israel
British actress Dame Helen Mirren has faced pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel throughout her career but prefers instead to...
Was the Rebuke of a Progressive Democrat a Blow to the Boycott Israel Movement?
Activists in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement attacked Israel in July in the political sphere. At the center were a statement by Rep....
Israeli Voices Get Silenced on Campus; Jew Haters Are Given ‘Academic Freedom’
As 2023 begins, several trends related to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement have become clear. On one hand, "human rights" industry leaders and...
Don’t Turn Away Supporters of Israel
The State of Israel was founded in 1948 and admitted to the United Nations as a member state in 1949. Nevertheless, as Susie Linfield writes...
Responding to Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
On July 28th, Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's, published an op-ed in The New York Times. They stated that...
BDS Rages as the Summer Sizzles On
As the fall semester approaches, signs point to an even more heightened campus environment of harassment and intimidation aimed against Israel and its supporters. Control...
Without an Aggressive Response, Ben & Jerry’s Decision Is a Harbinger of Further Divestment From Israel
Companies hate controversy. Controversy threatens a company’s reputation and future earnings. With the dramatic growth of corporate social responsibility over the past decade, activists have...
Whither the BDS Movement?
The normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates may be one of the biggest and final nails in the coffin of the...
Fighting BDS at the UN, ICC, and on Campus
The leading BDS event of February was the long awaited publication by the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of a...
The End of College Can Be the Beginning of New Activism Against BDS
JNS.org - Amid a resurgence in antisemitic hate crimes across the country, Jewish and Zionist students on campus face bigotry and vitriol that threaten the...
Campus Antisemitism Reaches New Lows in America
JNS.org - The Trump administration issued an Executive Order last month aimed at combating antisemitism on American college campuses. For ideological as well as financial...
The Tlaib/Omar Controversy Reveals the True Nature of BDS
As expected, the UK paper The Guardian published two full blown rants over the weekend concerning Israel’s refusal to allow US Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN)...
Is the BDS Movement on the Rise?
According to the BDS movement’s Palestinian branch, the impact of the movement “is increasing substantially.” Many pro-Israel sites and organizations agree with that assessment. But...
