Britain’s leading architectural association has called for its Israeli counterpart to be excluded from the International Union of Architects in protest at Israel‘s occupation of Palestine, in a further indication of the growing momentum of the boycott movement. The Royal Institute…
read moreKing’s students will vote on a controversial anti-Israel BDS motion at their Student General Meeting next Tuesday The anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions movement has yet again reared its head at KCL.The motion, which has resurfaced after it was first proposed…
read moreThe level of anti-Israel hostility proliferating at our universities is hardly any great secret. Yet what to do in the face of this challenge has proven far less apparent. Putting aside the fact that many of the academics quietly, and…
read moreDo you sometimes wonder why some segments of the left are so irrationally hostile to Israel. I do. And I wish there were simple answers. One of the strange things about the left’s animosity to Israel is that it absurdly…
read moreThe Nazis invented the Jewish boycott, and went on from there to the Holocaust. The world excuses Islamic murder, but focuses on flaws, often imaginary, on the part of Israel. This is the wrong boycott in the wrong place at…
read moreGet ready for the next round of Modern Language Association deliberations on a resolution about Israel and the West Bank. The resolution was approved — 60 to 53 — by the association’s Delegate Assembly in January, following hours of intense debate. It criticizes…
read moreWhen the American Studies Association joined the ranks of those supporting boycotts of the state of Israel, it probably never occurred to members of the group that someone might turn the tables on them. But they underestimated the ingenuity of…
read moreThe movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel as a means of pressuring it to end the occupation of the West Bank has gained momentum. One of the forms BDS has taken is an academic boycott that can include…
read moreThe recent controversy over Scarlett Johansson’s endorsement of SodaStream, an Israeli company with a factory in the West Bank, and her subsequent refusal to be bullied into repudiating the company, has cast a spotlight on the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and…
read moreIsrael Apartheid Week, that just ended across the United States but continues with boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns across Europe, is widely misunderstood. Many accept BDS as grass-roots pressure on Israel to complete the peace process and accede to a…
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