Posts Tagged: Omar Barghouti
Anti-Israel Speakers Promote BDS to Loud Applause at UC Berkeley Lecture
Cheryl Davila, a member of a Berkeley, California city commission that is ostensibly devoted to the "social welfare needs" of "low-income residents," was recently dismissed after introducing a boycott,...
2015 Must Be the Year We Fight for Israel
The last year saw a ferocious fight for the survival of the Jewish State, both militarily and in the world of public relations. Israel defeated...
Jewish Students Have the Right to Feel Safe on Campus
JNS.org - It all started when I took out some anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) information sheets at a Brooklyn College-sponsored event last year that...
BDS: You Can’t Fight for Justice With Hypocrisy
Less than a week before Israel Apartheid Week opened on college campuses across the U.S. and UK, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the first shot...
How The New York Times Whitewashed the Anti-Semitism of the BDS Movement
A few days ago, anti-Israel activists noted with considerable satisfaction that several recently published New York Times (NYT) articles seemed to justify the conclusion that the...
Another Performance by The Times Trio
Nothing seems to please New York Times editors more than an opportunity to launch a multi-front fusillade against Israel, either in the Sunday Review section...
U.S.-Israeli Prof. Slams MLA Conference as Assault on Academic Freedom (INTERVIEW)
An American-Israeli professor, addressing a counter-conference on the sidelines of a polemical Modern Language Association annual meeting in Chicago, on Thursday said the MLA resolution seeking...
The MLA’s Top Five BDS Blunders This Week
The Modern Language Association (MLA) has blundered repeatedly over its treatment of Israel in the run-up to its annual conference this week. Technically the 30,000...
Wrong on Both Counts: Academic Boycotts and Israel
Statements rejecting calls for an academic boycott of Israel, such as that recently resolved by the academic American Studies Association, generally resort fully only to...
The Voices of BDS
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement's biggest success is rooted in its 'soft power.' The ability to influence behavior through values, policies,...
Brooklyn College Criticizes Itself Over Anti-Israel Event
This past February, in the final act of Brooklyn College's BDS fiasco, four Jewish students were kicked out of the talk. (Brooklyn's Political Science Department...
Investigation: Jewish Students Were Unjustly Evicted from Brooklyn College BDS Event
After a two month investigation into the circumstances surrounding the expulsion of four Jewish students from a BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) event aimed at...
New York Daily News Publishes BDS Founder’s Op-Ed—Then Bashes It
The New York Daily News published an op-ed Monday by BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) founder Omar Barghouti—and then summarily debunked and bashed the piece...
Lessons from Brooklyn College BDS, Barghouti, and Butler
Reader and correspondent David Lurie has directed me to some not well-publicized revelations about the Brooklyn College BDS event. To begin, the campus BDS chapter...
