BDS Movement

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Evelyn Gordon21.06.2018
We can and should make BDS a pariah
Delegitimizing BDS is far from mission impossible.
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AMCHA Initiative
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin12.06.2018
A new approach to fighting campus anti-Semitism
In the wake of recent controversies involving the disruption and canceling of campus events, many university leaders have adopted the University of Chicago’s statement on freedom of speech—a statement that has become the gold standard on free speech for universities across the country.
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1,500-plus South African Jews and Christians learn to counter the BDS movement
11.06.2018
Panels and discussion emphasized on working together with the local Christian leadership in raising support for Israel.
Jewish and Christian South African leaders. Credit: South African Friends of Israel.
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Jonathan S. Tobin07.06.2018
Notes of triumph: Music outplays BDS
Despite soccer headlines, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s tour of Israel gave a textbook example of how to defeat those who seek to intimidate friends of the Jewish state.
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Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Gustavo D. Perednik07.06.2018
Cry for us, Argentina . . .
Now that the Latin American nation has canceled its national soccer team’s friendly against Israel, it’s time to launch a counter-attack on the BDS movement.
Gustavo Perednik (Twitter)
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Rabbi Daniel Lehmann sees opportunity in interreligious dialogue, BDS challenge in Berkeley
Eliana Rudee04.06.2018
As first Jewish president of Berkeley, California’s Graduate Theological Union, Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, former head of Boston-area’s Hebrew College, plans to implement gradual, but significant change.
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann. Credit: Hebrew College.
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Israel rocks, according to bassist Dave Rublin
Oren Peleg17.05.2018
Part of the band American Authors, he talks about his new album, growing up Jewishly, traveling to Israel on Birthright and how music brings people together—and should be shared.
American Authors bassist Dave Rublin performing onstage. Credit: Twitter.
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Jonathan S. Tobin16.05.2018
Netta beats ‘nakba’
Despite growing anti-Semitism and BDS propaganda, those who want the world to think that Israel is a “disaster” seem to be losing.
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Jonathan S. Tobin07.05.2018
The BDS fifth column
It’s time to speak the truth about those Jews who lobby for an anti-Semitic proposal.
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Who's teaching Judaism to your kids?
Durham BDS activists employed by local synagogues, Federation
Eliana Rudee06.05.2018
The situation is raising eyebrows about the standards maintained during the hiring and vetting of professionals—or worse, that the federations and synagogues themselves are comfortable with BDS activists teaching at Hebrew schools.
Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo courtesy of NGO Monitor.
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Anti-Israel resolution in the city of Durham, NC, sets precedent for BDS activists
Eliana Rudee06.05.2018
This vote is symptomatic of a bigger problem of “attaching what people know about other conflicts to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said Yona Schiffmiller, North American liaison at NGO Monitor.
Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo courtesy of NGO Monitor.
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BDS advocates dealt setback in Cambridge, Mass., after mayor nixes council consideration
Sean Savage23.04.2018
The proposed resolution was put forward by MA Against HP—a coalition of pro-BDS groups that includes Jewish Voice for Peace, which called on the city not to renew its participation in a program to receive Hewlett-Packard products at a discount and to terminate their relationship with HP.
City Hall in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: City of Cambridge.
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Jonathan S. Tobin20.04.2018
How not to beat BDS
To fight the BDS movement on campus, Jewish students need to be educated about Israel. At the same time, more criticism of Israel from Jews won’t disarm anti-Semitic opponents on campus or anywhere else.
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Barnard College students vote to boycott companies that work with Israel
20.04.2018
Supporters of the measure said that Israel’s power advantage neutralized the need to include pro-Israel voices in the discussion.
The gates of Barnard College in New York City. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Jack Saltzberg19.04.2018
‘Definition of insanity’: Israel loses at George Washington University
The war against BDS on campus will change when one student in one university decides that it’s time to stop this madness, go on the offensive and put BDS on trial instead of Israel.
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