COMMENTARY
Is BDS a Bust?
by Jonathan Marks
February 16, 2017

In 2005, a coalition of organizations claiming to represent Palestinian civil society issued a call to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel…At least as Gallup measures it, that effect has been zero.In 2005, 69 percent of U.S. adults held a favorable view of Israel and 25% held an unfavorable view. Today, those numbers are 71 percent and 25 percent. A particular target of BDS has been young people, and polling has for some time shown that young people view Israel less favorably than their elders…Both Gallup and Pew show that Democrats and Republicans differ dramatically when it comes to support for Israel. READ MORE