Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

August 3, 2020 | David May, Benjamin Weinthal

Why Congress must follow Germany and brand BDS anti-Semitic

Ending the boycott of Israel

July 22, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Jonathan Schanzer

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...

July 15, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Big increase of Palestinian terrorist members, supporters in Germany

Support for the the PFLP has risen, which was founded in 1967 and is animated by a Marxist-Leninist doctrine coupled with radical Arab nationalism.

June 30, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German–Iranian dissidents urge MP to resign from antisemitic BDS NGO

Nouripour should quit due to "his Iranian identity: there is only one dictatorship in this world that has an antisemitic state doctrine, namely the Islamic Republic.”

June 21, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Orde Kittrie

Biden blasts BDS: Why it matters

Biden's firm rejection of BDS contrasts with the views of several members of Congress led by Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), both of whom have explicitly endorsed BDS.

June 15, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution

He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.

May 11, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Jewish rep against antisemitism rebukes diplomat for BDS support

Im Tirzu slams Israeli and Jewish academics for urging the discharge of the German government’s antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein.

May 7, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian state of Styria condemns BDS in resolution

“With this decision, the parliament is committed to resolutely combating every form of antisemitism as it emerges."

May 6, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

50,000 scholar NGO slams ‘antisemitic’ BDS prof., supports German rep.

“For cosmetic and political reasons BDS groups try, albeit unsuccessfully, to draw a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism to soft peddle their racist policies."

May 5, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Antisemitic’ academic pushed for boycott of Israeli professors in 2018

Mbembe and another academic took the lead to boycott Prof. Shifra Sagy, a psychology professor at Ben-Gurion University, who was disinvited from the South African Stellenbosch University’s conference in 2018.

May 1, 2020 | Asaf Romirowsky, Benjamin Weinthal

New York’s universities stand up against BDS and anti-Semitism

One has to be unusually callous to revel publicly in the coronavirus-related death of an 88-year old Holocaust survivor, yet Leen Dweik did not hesitate. A 2019 graduate of New York University,...

April 12, 2020 | David May |

NGOs should not be providing fiscal sponsorship to terrorist organizations

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), an American organization, has supported the Gaza Return March and the terrorist groups behind it.

March 4, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Svante Cornell, Jonathan Schanzer

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...

February 19, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N. Human Rights Council strikes again

A motley crew of rights violators seeks to harm Israelis and Palestinians alike

February 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin’s commissioner to fight antisemitism slams university for BDS event

“If anti-Israeli boycott and delegitimization campaigns are directly supported, the line regarding Israel-related antisemitism was crossed."

February 14, 2020 | David May |

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...

February 12, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German university hosts pro-BDS event with alleged antisemite

Humboldt University expelled Jewish students and academics in 1930's

February 9, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jews urge Green Party MP to resign from ‘antisemitic’ BDS group

Last year, the Bild paper in Germany said Green Party member Claudia Roth made “antisemitism socially respectable” by enthusiastically meeting with the head of Iran’s quasi-Parliament Ali Larijani.

January 27, 2020 | Svante Cornell, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

Occupied Elsewhere

Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes

January 20, 2020 | David May |

War by Other Means

A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS