State Laws on Israel Boycotts Hold Up in Court
The BDS movement hates these laws because they work.
Airbnb
Jew-Free Investing
How the BDS campaign infiltrated ESG
Op-eds
Will CEOs Finally Learn Their Lesson on Boycotting Israel?
Ben & Jerry’s’ Israel boycott melted away last month when its parent company, Unilever, settled a federal lawsuit brought by the company’s Israeli licensee, Avi Zinger. Unilever...
Op-eds
Earth to Executives: Boycotts of Israel Backfire
Letter to the Editor
Op-eds
Putin’s war perverts a personal geography
Bucha? That was the leafy Kyiv suburb where we spent a Saturday afternoon, eating ice cream cones and exploring a city park defined by neatly clipped hedges, classical sculptures and fathers teaching their...
Op-eds
Double Scoops and Double Standards Courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s
In addition to its classic double scoops, Vermont-based ice cream producer Ben & Jerry’s is now offering a calorie-rich serving of double standards, too. The Ben & Jerry’s brand, owned...
Op-eds
How States Can Respond If Biden Lifts Iran Sanctions
Republican governors and legislatures have some effective tools at their disposal.
Op-eds
How Governors and State Legislatures Can Mitigate the White House’s Iran Strategy
A few months ago it seemed that the Biden administration would pursue a more moderate version of Obama’s Iran strategy. Now it’s poised to make even greater concessions.
Op-eds
Olympic sponsors must withdraw support if Iran is not banned
Excerpt In late January, the Islamic Republic executed a second young Iranian wrestler as part of its campaign against dissent. Mehdi Ali Husseini, who was just 29 years old, was killed only four months...
Op-eds
Amazon Pays a Fine for Crimea Business, but Occupied-Territories Policy Remains Murky
Amazon.com, Inc., settled with the U.S. Department of the Treasury earlier this month for violating U.S. sanctions by delivering products to Crimea, a region of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and several...
Insights
Europeans Pushing to Boycott Israel Over Annexation Should Think Twice
Calls for economic sanctions against Israel risk a costly collision with U.S. anti-boycott laws, as companies such as Airbnb can attest.
Op-eds
The UN’s Selective Outrage on Occupied Territories
Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the...
Op-eds
UN’s New Anti-Israel Blacklist Condemns Companies for Generic Business Activities
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a blacklist on Wednesday of 112 companies operating in “Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory … and in the occupied...
Policy Briefs
Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
The Most Recent PFLP Hijacking: European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) has a Palestinian terrorist problem. The EP hosted an event last week featuring Khaled Barakat, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), ac...
Op-eds
West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights Are Seoul Targets of Exclusion
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited South Korea (ROK) earlier this week as the two U.S. allies...
Policy Briefs
Why has Human Rights Watch become an anti-Israel activist group?
When Airbnb, the online lodging service, announced in November that it would ban Israeli listings in the disputed West Bank, hardcore anti-Isra...
Op-eds
Wiesenthal’s top ten list of antisemites includes Pittsburgh shooter
Swedish hospital, UK singer Roger Waters and German bank make the list.
Op-eds
Illinois Moves to Blacklist Airbnb
Following a request by Governor Bruce Rauner, the Illinois Investment Policy Board (IIPB) on Wednesday unanimously voted to...