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City of Bonn, western Germany. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) The city of Bonn, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, banned four Palestinian organizations from participating in its late September cultural festival, because they support the antisemitic Boycott,…
read moreGabriel Bolotin shows off some of the Israeli products he sells at the Taste of Israel grocery store in Thornhill, Ont. It’s a safe bet to say that Firas al-Najim’s boycott efforts didn’t go the way he hoped they would.…
read moreBarrels at an Israeli winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot, February 11, 2014. (AP/ Dan Balilty/File) Canada’s Federal Court on Monday ruled that wines produced by Israelis in the West Bank can no longer be labeled as “Made…
read moreThe European Union is poised to mandate that Israeli products made in contested territories carry consumer warning labels, a decision that could trigger American anti-boycott laws and open up what legal experts describe as a “Pandora’s box” of litigation, according…
read moreThe anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement insists it is merely “pro-Palestinian” and not anti-Semitic. There is a mountain of evidence otherwise, but sometimes there is a clarifying moment as to how calls to boycott Israel have become mainstreamed.…
read moreA university in Brazil was forced to cancel a lecture by a pro-Israeli advocacy organization StandWithUs after being bombarded by threats from pro-Palestinian groups. The University of Pernambuco, a public university in the city of Recife, opted to cancel the…
read moreOn April 16, 2018, the Durham North Carolina City Council passed the “Israel Resolution” making Durham the first city in the United States to boycott police training specifically with Israel. This took place even though Durham conducted no police training with Israel,…
read moreLast week I posted how Muhammed Desai, the Director of BDS South Africa, stupidly posted a selfie with a PFLP terrorist, and boasted of collaboration with the terrorist organization. He subsequently deleted the post, probably realizing he had just gifted us proof that…
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Last week, in a rare moment of bipartisan comity, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed a nonbinding resolution criticizing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. The resolution’s text avoided anything potentially controversial and simply reaffirmed the conventional U.S. support for a two-state,…
read moreEXECUTIVE SUMMARY: According to the BDS movement’s Palestinian branch, the impact of the movement “is increasing substantially.” Many pro-Israel sites and organizations agree with that assessment. But how accurate is this prognosis? There are two basic dimensions to the efficiency…
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