Posts Tagged: Israel cultural boycott
Entertainment Industry Group Works to Thwart the Cultural Efforts of BDS
JNS.org - Since its founding in 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement has targeted Israeli universities, businesses, and cultural organizations. Most recently, its...
Artists Speak Out for Israel on Independence Day
Liberate Art, founded less than three years ago, connects the international entertainment community and Israel, creating fresh content and important events. In celebration of Israeli Independence Day,...
Good Lorde, Another Cancellation
The New Zealand songstress Lorde recently buckled under pressure from the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel -- and cancelled her June concert...
Roger Waters: There Is US Media Conspiracy to Silence My Anti-Israel Views
Roger Waters isn’t given the opportunity to discuss his anti-Israel activism in the US media or on late-night talk shows because of a conspiracy to...
Do You Think the Cultural BDS Movement Is Failing? Think Again
Do you think that the cultural boycott campaign against Israel is a colossal failure? Think again. Scotland's Sunday Herald recently published an open letter signed by artists, media workers and academics that called for...
Roger Waters’ Jewish Problem Catches Eye of Award-Winning Filmmaker
Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters has spent the last decade disparaging the Jewish state. Labeled an antisemite by the Anti-Defamation League, Waters compares Jews...
SPME BDS Monitor: Academic Situation Improves, Cultural Sphere Worsens
With the school year over, the focus of BDS activity has moved to other parts of the academic ecosystem. One of the most important developments...
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...
Don’t Ignore the Cultural Boycott of Israel
Nearly 50 artists, including Roger Waters, Thurston Moore, Julie Christie and Mike Leigh, recently signed an open letter to the English rock band Radiohead, urging them to cancel their...
SPME BDS Monitor: Antisemitism Rises as States Fight Boycott Efforts
February saw dramatic setbacks for the BDS movement as legislators and politicians imposed restrictions and voiced unprecedented opposition. At the same time, BDS in universities...
An Iron Dome Against the Cultural Boycott of Israel
Prior to an Israeli Knesset conference this month concerning the delegitimization of Israel, MK Michael Oren called for a “legal and hasbara Iron dome.” The way...
Why Boycotting Israeli Art Is an Attack on Our Humanity
I wonder what our prayers sound like to God during these Days of Awe. As the earth spins on its axis and Jews across the...
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...
BDS and ‘Cultural’ Boycotts
One of the most insidious elements of the BDS strategy is the call for a cultural boycott against Israel. It harms Israel's image to be...
