Posts Tagged: Israel boycott movement
To Win the War of Ideas, Israel Must Be the ‘Underdog’ Again
As humans, we instinctively root for the underdog. Movies and books exalt the underfunded, undereducated (and often underage) underdog in his fight against the polished...
United Auto Workers International Overturns Local Union’s BDS Vote
Last year, BDS supporters went crazy when a local student workers union at the University of California voted to support BDS: Student workers at the University of California...
SPME BDS Monitor: The Movement Goes International
In June BDS action shifted suddenly to the political arena. Israeli and world Jewish leaders spoke out forcefully against BDS, promising greater action. A scandal...
As Church Votes in Support of BDS, New Leader Lacks Courage to Voice Opposition
Rev. John Dorhauer has a problem. He just got elected president and general minister of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a liberal Protestant denomination...
Thank the New Israel Fund for the United Nations Report Accusing Israel of War Crimes
On Monday, the United Nations issued their report on Operation Protective Edge, and found that Israel may have “committed war crimes.” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...
On College Campuses, Semester Ends With Big BDS Push
The end of the fall semester saw continued BDS successes in academic organizations but failures in other areas. In political terms, recognition of Palestine continued...
Financing Mideast Flames – Confronting BDS and the New Israel Fund
At a time when the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement is seen as a viable threat to Israel, many are asking where the oxygen...
Israeli Foreign Ministry Sets Up Team to Combat Boycotts
JNS.org - Israel has established a new inter-ministerial team to fight efforts to boycott the Jewish state and products manufactured beyond the Green Line,...
How the ASA Became the RASA (Racist American Studies Association)
In contrast to communities like the Presbyterians or Food Coop world, which I never knew much about before helping them fight off the BDS infection,...
There They Go Again
Last year, Brooklyn College's political science department voted to officially affiliate itself with a talk by two advocates of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel....
