Posts Tagged: Israel Boycotts
BDS Is Contemptible, But Academic Boycotts Have Their Place
Academic boycotts, rightly understood and employed, are an effective means of isolating and stigmatizing universities and other institutions that support authoritarian regimes (like Erdogan’s Turkey)...
BDS Charade: United Church of Christ’s ‘Divestment’ From Israel
It was a charade -- nearly every last word of it. A few years ago, the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant denomination in...
Irish FM: Bill to Boycott Israeli Settlement Goods Not Legally Sound
Ireland’s top diplomat has voiced opposition to legislation advanced by his country’s Senate earlier this week that would ban the import of Israeli settlement goods. Minister...
The Right to Criticize Israel Is Beside the Point
JNS.org - In an election season in which we are awash in polls, we’ve now been given one more telling us something that everybody already...
Dershowitz on Lara Alqasem: ‘Israel Never Should Have Detained Her’
JNS.org - The reactions of Jewish individuals and Israel-related groups are mixed over Israel’s Supreme Court allowing entry on Thursday to 22-year-old American BDS activist...
Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of US Student in Boycott Case, Allowing Her to Stay in Country
An American student who was barred from entering Israel under a law against foreign activists who support boycotts of the state over its Palestinian policies was given...
BDS Threatens the Diaspora, Not Israel
JNS.org - This past week, we learned of yet another educator at the University of Michigan who has refused to give a Jewish student a...
A New Generation of Galvanized Young Jews Fight Antisemitism on Campus
JNS.org - IfNotNow (INN) has a plan. It’s determined, according to its website, to create nothing less than “a movement led by young Jews to reclaim...
BDS Advocates Try to Split the Jewish Community From Israel
In July, the BDS movement accelerated its efforts to divide the American Jewish community from Israel and intensify internal divisions in the latter. Two incidents in...
Ireland Takes Another Anti-Israel Turn
The recent Occupied Territories Bill passed in the Irish Seanad with a standing ovation -- another historical moment in Ireland’s support of the Palestinian people....
The Irish Senate’s ‘Boycott Israel’ Debate
JNS.org - Reading the transcript of the debate that took place in the Irish Senate on July 11 before that body voted 25-20 to criminalize commercial relations with...
Israel Calls on EU to Stop Funding Pro-BDS Groups
Israel accused European Union institutions on Friday of funding non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote "anti-Israel boycotts" and called for the support to end. Issuing a 40-page study, Israel's Ministry...
Durham BDS Activists Employed by Local Synagogues, Federation
JNS.org - Two of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) activists who helped pass a resolution on April 16 in the City Council of Durham, North Carolina that...
The Ongoing Myth of BDS Success
Anytime that a student government votes to divest from Israel or a celebrity chooses not to perform in Israel, a cry goes out throughout the...
