Posts Tagged: Israel boycott
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...
American Labor Union Embraces BDS, Accuses Israel of Genocide
During its national convention in Baltimore last month, the United Electrical, Machine and Radio Workers of America labor union (UE) adopted a resolution endorsing the anti-Israel...
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...
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...
Communist China and the BDS Movement Have a Lot in Common
The pandemic of artistic censorship spread last week, not only within China’s oppressive communist regime, but through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort against...
Netanyahu: Power of Israeli Technology Is Stronger Than Any Boycott
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, arrived in Italy for an official visit on Thursday, landing in Milan, where they were...
Jewish Musician Banned From Spanish Music Festival Because He’s….Jewish
It’s no shock to those knowledgeable about the behavior of the racists active within the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement (BDS), which seeks the destruction of...
SPME BDS Monitor: Hillary Clinton Takes a Stand Against BDS
July saw the conclusion of an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program, and focus is being shifted back to the Arab-Israeli conflict. With it are...
UK Student Union Censures Leader for Violating Israel Boycott With Coca-Cola Sponsorship
The U.K.’s largest student union criticized its newly elected president for accepting a Coca-Cola sponsorship that the union said goes against its policy of boycotting Israel, The Independent reported...
If BDS Supports Tolerance, Why is it Trying to Suppress Free Speech?
The cultural boycott against Israel strikes at the heart of freedom of expression. The Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement seeks to rob the world...
Anti-BDS Activists Starting to Line Up Victories on Behalf of Israel
BDS (the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel) is an international campaign that was started in 2005 by several different Palestinian NGOs to pressure individuals, organizations, and nations to apply economic,...
Will United Church of Christ’s Israel Divestment Pack a Punch?
JNS.org - The United Church of Christ (UCC) this week became the latest mainline Protestant denomination to approve a resolution calling for divestment from companies that...
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...
