Posts Tagged: Israel boycott
Radiohead: My New Favorite Band
I have to admit that I haven’t spent much time thinking about the band Radiohead in recent years. In fact, the last time I thought of them...
Northeastern Spanish City Council Rejects Motion to Boycott Israel
JNS.org - The City Council of Lérida, Spain, rejected last Fridau a motion to boycott Israelis and companies doing business with the Jewish state. The Lawfare Project,...
Palestinians Play Political Football on the BDS Movement’s Website
JNS.org - The Arab-Israeli conflict just got a dose of political football. A recent open letter to FIFA by 174 Palestinian sports clubs called on world soccer’s governing body to...
BDS Activist at Jewish Voice for Peace Conference Urges ‘Guerilla Disobedience’ Against Israel
Palestinian activist and Stanford University graduate Fadi Quran told the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) conference on Friday night that "guerilla disobedience" is needed against Israel. Quran, who was arrested...
StandWithUs Hosts Conference to Fight BDS Movement
JNS.org - Long admired in pro-Israel circles for his 2003 book The Case for Israel, former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz is now targeting the...
Report: UN to Delay ‘Blacklist’ Database of Companies With Israeli Settlement Ties
JNS.org - An upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report that would establish a database of companies with ties to Israeli settlements has been delayed...
SPME BDS Monitor: A Month of Progress
January saw the new Trump administration articulate strong opposition to BDS. Some of the protests against the administration and its new temporary immigration restrictions saw the...
The Intellectual Hypocrisy of Anti-Israel Academic Boycotts
Among the many examples of the shameful degradation of values in academia, few are more intellectually grotesque than academic boycotts. And these boycotts, in their present form,...
Who’s Really Behind the Academic Boycott Against Israel?
One of the main challenges to hopes for peace in the Middle East is the campaign to boycott and isolate Israel, the only true democracy...
Israel: A Country at War, Yet Full of Hope
I recently attended a Jewish National Fund (JNF) fundraising breakfast at the Beverly Hilton, along with 1,400 other participants. It was my fourth time at this...
SPME BDS Monitor: Far-Left Groups Support BDS; US Congress Pushes Back
In the wake of the US presidential election, BDS supporters have joined some far-left anti-Trump protesters, and a BDS supporter became the leading candidate to head...
Reinventing the Blood Libel for Contemporary Consumption
Blood libels have typically focused on far-fetched accusations that the Jews are to blame for whatever ills inflicted a community. More specifically, the claim was...
A Call to End Athletic Discrimination Against Israel
JNS.org - One of the most enduring images of last summer's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was that of Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian judo competitor,...
SPME BDS Monitor: The Movement for Black Lives Officially Joins the Anti-Israel Bandwagon
August saw dramatic BDS developments as the Movement for Black Lives' accusations that Israel committed “genocide” alienated Jewish supporters. Hacked files showing that the Open Society...
