The Company They Keep Organizational and Economic Dynamics of the BDS Movement
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Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS)
‘Apartheid Week’ programs promote Israel hatred as BDS supporters claim they are ‘silenced.’ IHRA definition is adopted as BDS advocates complain it “victimizes Palestinian advocacy.”
Introduction March was characterized by repeated accusations from the BDS movement that it was being ‘silenced.’ These came as campuses were subjected to ‘Israel Apartheid Week’ and an onslaught of anti-Israel programming. The incongruence of these claims point to the…
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Hillel leaders give Israel a wakeup call
Last year, I sank an anti-Israel BDS campaign at Princeton. Today, I’m calling attention to our inept Jewish leadership in the face of soaring Jew-hatred. Hardly a day passes by when I am not inundated with harrowing tales of antisemitism rearing its…
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Fears of Israel boycotts stalk this SNP election
The 2019 Conservative party manifesto included a pledge to “ban public bodies from imposing their own direct or indirect boycotts, divestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries”. Thus far, this commitment has not been honoured in legislation, although it is…
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BDS activist facing accusations of antisemitism wins Ontario election
A candidate for the ONDP, Ontario’s opposition party, who easily won a by-election in Hamilton, Ontario on Thursday, faces accusations of antisemitism from Jewish groups due to her support for BDS and her extreme views on Israel. Prior to her…
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SJP calls for divestment of endowment in Main Green protest
Brown University Students for Justice in Palestine organizers and roughly 75 community members rallied on the Main Green Monday afternoon, standing in front of a wall of hand-painted banners to protest the actions of the Israeli government and demand that…
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BDS targets South African students for student charity
Jewish students at the University of Pretoria in Johannesburg, South Africa have become the latest target in a antisemitic campaign of harassment from student groups including the Palestinian Solidarity Committee at the University of Pretoria (PSCUP). The controversy arose after…
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Expedia, Tripadvisor urge tourists to visit biblical heartland in ‘Palestinian territory’
Though Judea and Samaria are considered “disputed” under international law, certain companies, including Expedia and Tripadvisor, have labeled their properties there as being in “Palestinian territory.” Though no major company has ever successfully boycotted Judea and Samaria, representatives of many…
read moreBDS-led campus protests call for ‘intifada’ and to hail ‘martyrs’ as Israeli speakers are attacked.
Introduction The BDS movement and its allies in February aligned themselves further with Palestinian rejectionism with rallies calling for ‘intifada’ and hailing Palestinian ‘martyrs.’ These terms mesh the BDS movement’s religious-nationalist agenda and left wing ‘anti-imperialist’ protests over ‘victims of…
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How Ben & Jerry’s Ended Up at War With Itself
Anuradha Mittal was the kind of person large corporations tend to avoid at all costs. She’d been politically awakened as a college student in India, working as a volunteer in Bhopal, where a leak at a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide…
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