European governments are fully within their legal rights to boycott products made by Jews in the West Bank, a British legal expert has concluded.
Proponents of using economic pressure to force Israel out of the West Bank may have lost a key battle this week – by a hair’s breadth – but they have no intention of giving up.
Pro-Palestinian groups have issued a joint statement supporting the African National Congress\’ call to intensify a boycott of Israeli products because of its \”Zionist policies,\” which it has compared to apartheid.
In a rare move, nine Canadian senators have warned the United Church of Canada that its proposed boycott of goods from Israeli settlements would harm already tense relations with the Jewish community.
There is an obvious way to respond to author Alice Walker’s refusal to allow her novel “The Color Purple” to be translated into Hebrew. In case you missed it, Walker accused Israel of being “guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.”
As a long-time advocate for peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I am pained that frustration over failure to achieve a just and lasting peace has led allies in the struggle to end up at odds over tactics like boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS).
Limmud Oz, an offshoot of the international festival of Jewish learning, cancelled a panel featuring several controversial Jewish speakers for its upcoming conference in Melbourne.
Israeli businessmen have launched a Web site to help counter calls to boycott products made in Israel.
The trial of 19 pro-Palestinian protesters backing an Israel boycott began in Australia.
Arab states launched a boycott against Adidas over its sponsorship of last month\’s Jerusalem Marathon.
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