Posts Tagged: Israel boycott
Palestinians Should Support Boycotting Hamas, Not Israel
In a column last week for Al Jazeera America, Rafeef Ziadah, an activist with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, used the ongoing Gaza war as a springboard to justify the...
Don’t Dismiss California School System’s Fights Over Israel Divestment
Experts disagree about who first observed "academic politics is so vicious because the stakes are so low," but when it comes to the ongoing student debates about...
FAA Lifts Ban on Israel Flights
JNS.org - Late on Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted its ban on flights by American carriers in and out of Israel's Ben...
With Declining Ranks, Does a Presbyterian Boycott of Israel Even Matter?
JNS.org - Leaders of Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) are set to decide on whether or not to support an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
The Jewish People Will Survive
"We have come, over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered."...
Is Rockefeller Brothers Fund Consciously Helping to Delegitimize Israel?
JNS.org - The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is one of the more august grant-making institutions in the United States. Founded in 1940 by the...
U.K. Cooperative Continues ‘Boycott’ of Israeli Produce Despite Woes
To paraphrase Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Anti-Semitism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Despite the deep financial difficulties of the Cooperative Group's businesses in the U.K.,...
British Grassroots Counter BDS, With a Touch of Humor
JNS.org - In August 2012, a Christian and a Jew bumped into each other in Brighton, the languid seaside resort on Britain's south coast...
The Third Narrative: Not So Third, Not a Narrative, Not New
I regret to say that a fair number of people I respect (and some not so much) have signed on to a statement about the...
Israel Economy Minister Bennett Mocks Boycotts Yet Again
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday mocked pressure within Israel to appease those who threaten economic boycott of the Jewish state by pointing to...
Black-and-White Boycotts Defy a Technicolor Middle East
The world is never black and white, and it is this binary, zero-sum thinking that perpetuates the Israeli-Palestinian impasse in the Middle East. It's been weeks...
BDS Movement Will Fail, Netanyahu Says at AIPAC
JNS.org - The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel will fail, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the American Israel Public Affairs...
Israel Boycotters Attempt to Hijack Another Meeting
JNS.org - The recent California State University (CSU) Trustees bimonthly meeting took an odd turn. Amid pressing discussions about budgets, improving student success, and other...
Presbyterian Anti-Zionists are Destroying Their Church by Attacking Israel
Given the hostility that emanates from the Presbyterian Church (USA) towards Israel and the Jewish people, it's hard to see how a self-respecting Jew could...
