Tag Archives: Boycott Divest Sanctions

BDS-supporting scientist grapples with metaphors…and loses

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Nobel Prize Winner Tries to Make the Case for BDS — And Fails Spectacularly A.J. Caschetta April 5, 2022 Last year I asked if scientists were more valuable to the anti-Israel BDS movement than Middle East studies and … Continue reading

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“After 30 years of selling ice cream in Israel, the company wants me to boycott my neighbors. I refuse”

COMMON SENSE Why I’m Suing Ben & Jerry’s Avi Zinger March 28, 2022 …Requiring that I stop selling my ice cream to any customers—Palestinians or Israelis, Christians or Druze—based on where they live is illegal. That is why Ben & … Continue reading

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#BDSFail Sierra Club walks back cancellation of Israel trips

TIMES OF ISRAEL Sierra Club reinstates Israel trips after canceling amid anti-Zionist group pressure Luke Tress March 15, 2022 The US environmental nonprofit Sierra Club is reinstating trips to Israel after canceling scheduled visits in response to pressure from anti-Israel … Continue reading

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Since announcing its boycott of Judea and Samaria, “Unilever stock value has plunged 20.7% translating into a $26 billion loss”

J-WIRE Following boycott on Israel, Unilever shares in unprecedented dive by Aryeh Savir, TPS January 20, 2022 Half a year after notifying Avi Singer, the owner of Ben & Jerry’s Israel, of the termination of the company’s contract with him … Continue reading

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“Lalela Mswane defied the BDS movement, the new Omicron coronavirus variant, and her own government, and flew to Israel to join Miss Universe”

BREITBART Blue State Blues: A Beautiful Black Woman Shatters the BDS Movement by Joel P. Pollak December 3, 2021 On one side of the issue stands Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane, stunningly beautiful and beaming, waving from the Ben Gurion … Continue reading

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Memo to Rooney, the BDS’er : “Boycotting the Hebrew language — spoken by millions of Jews worldwide — has nothing to do with Palestine. It’s just racism”

NEW YORK POST Sally Rooney reportedly banning new novel from being translated to Hebrew By Lee Brown October 12, 2021 It girl novelist Sally Rooney has reportedly refused to allow her new novel to be published in Hebrew because she … Continue reading

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“While a covert campaign to make critical race theory part and parcel of school curricula has been the most visible part of the activist educators’ efforts to corrupt teaching of America’s children, not far behind has been a troubling, pernicious campaign to demonize Israel and Zionism”

FRONT PAGE MAG Public School Educators’ Obsessive Hatred of Israel by Richard L. Cravatts September 2, 2021 …It is inexcusable that educators in America’s public schools have decided to become pro-Palestinian activists; that they have decided it is appropriate and … Continue reading

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#BLM The goal of “dismantling the Zionist project” can mean only one thing, no matter how much they deny being antisemites

ISRAEL TODAY Black Lives Matter Wants to Destroy Israel, Says Top Activist by Ryan Jones March 3, 2021 Anyone still living under the illusion that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the US is not wholly hostile toward Israel, … Continue reading

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“BDS has made life worse for Palestinian Arabs, the very people they falsely claim to help”

GATESTONE The Duped Generation that Supports BDS by Richard Kemp February 23, 2021 Yet again we approach the depths of the annual Jew Hate Week around the world. Its organizers know better than to call it what it is. They … Continue reading

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“The hard sciences once seemed immune to the politics that dominate the humanities in academia, but no longer”

NATIONAL REVIEW What if Scientists Join the BDS Movement? by A.J. Caschetta February 6, 2021 Last year, after chemistry professor Mindy Levine was invited to guest-edit a special issue of the journal Molecules, a group dedicated to the academic boycott … Continue reading

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