Key Issue:BDS (Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions)
Boycotts, divestment, and sanctions are tactics of political warfare used against Israel, intended to isolate it economically, culturally, and politically.
Reports
EU Funding to NGOs Active in Anti-Israel BDS Campaigns
January 23, 2017
Human Rights Watch Publication, Lacking Methodology and Credibility, Lays the Foundations for BDS
January 19, 2016
Fact Sheet: Abuse of Tourist Visas by Radical NGO Activists for BDS and Political Warfare
August 31, 2016
NGOs, EU “Product Labeling” and BDS Warfare: what Next?
December 13, 2015
Pro-BDS Backgrounds of MEPs in Letter to Knesset on NGO Funding Legislation
February 14, 2016
European-Funded NGOs Behind the Orange BDS Campaign
June 5, 2015
BDS on American Campuses: SJP and its NGO Network
November 22, 2015
The Boycott Industry: Background Information and Analysis on BDS Campaigns
February 3, 2014
Op-Eds
BtS and their Ilk only Serve to Feed BDS’ Fire
Shaun Sacks
January 3, 2016
NGOs and the Economic War
Gerald Steinberg
December 14, 2015
On Europe, Terrorism and Demonizing Israel: Time for a Reset
Gerald Steinberg
October 19, 2015
The BDS Wars: Some Signs of Success for the New Year
Gerald Steinberg
September 13, 2015
The BDS Funding Paradox
Itai Reuveni
September 11, 2015
Calling out BDS Anti-Semitism
Gerald Steinberg
August 26, 2015
The Selling of BDS
Gerald Steinberg
July 28, 2015
Articles of Interest
Noam Ohana, The Times of Israel, From BDS to Murder: a French perspective, October 19, 2016
David Hirsch, Engage, Why BDS is antisemitic, June 1, 2016
Cnaan Liphshiz, The Times of Israel, Matisyahu Affair Highlights Europe’s Conflation of Jew and Israel, August 26, 2015
Steve Schnur and David Renzer, The Jewish Journal, Recent Actions of BDS Groups Expose Discriminatory, Anti-Semitic Underpinnings, August 25, 2014
Dan Diker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Unmasking BDS: Radical Roots, Extremist Ends, 2015
Christian Peacemaker Teams, PALESTINE: CPT-Palestine endorses Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, April 19, 2010
Central Conference of American Rabbis, CCAR Resolution on the 2009 Kairos Document, April 15, 2010
Reut Institute, The Delegitimization Challenge: Creating a Political Firewall, March 2010
Ronnie Fraser, The Academic Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It, JCPA post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism project, No. 66, 2 March 2008.
Anthony Julius and Professor Simon Schama, “John Berger is wrong: The call for a cultural boycott of Israel is banal, gestural and morally compromised”,The Guardian, December 22, 2006.
Jon Haber, “The Vampire’s Kiss,” Jerusalem Post, August 31, 2006.
NGO Monitor: “NGOs Continue to Push Divestment/Boycott Campaigns (‘Durban’ strategy)”, (Vol.4 No.5) – 17 January 2006
“Presbyterian Church USA & Families of 9/11 Victims Delegations Meet with Hizbullah”, MEMRI, November 23, 2005
NGO Monitor: “Update: Is the NGO-Led Divestment Effort Losing Support?”, November 15, 2005
Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, “Academics against Israel”, Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2005
NGO Monitor: “NGOs and Divestment: Update”, October 16, 2005
Interfaith Group Confronts Sabeel
Church Committees Recommend Against Divestment
NGO Monitor: “European Coordinating Committee of NGOs (ECCP) Meeting to Promote Boycotts and Divestment”, October 6, 2005
Gerald Steinberg, “EU-funded NGOs behind Almog lawsuit”, Jerusalem Post, September 13, 2005
Gerald Steinberg, “Canada’s contribution to the divestment campaign”, Canadian Jewish News, August 31, 2005 .
NGO Monitor: “The Political Agenda of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)”, August 22, 2005.
Paul C Merkley, “It is About Israel’s Right-to-Life”, JewishComment.com, Sunday August 21, 2005
NGO Monitor: “Mennonite Central Committee – Promoting Conflict via Divestment (Update),” August 4, 2005.
Gerald Steinberg, “Terror and the divestment campaign,” The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2005.
NGO Monitor: “NGOs Behind Anti-Israel Divestment Campaign,” July 14 2005.
NGO Monitor: “Sabeel – An Ecumenical Facade To Promote Hatred”, July 10 2005.
“One year on: Palestinian civil society calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions Appeal”, Electronic Intifada, July 9 2005.
“Three Faiths heads slam ACC”, Jewish Chronicle, July 8, 2005.
“United Church of Christ’s Israel Divestment Action ‘Troubling’, Contravenes Months of Interfaith Dialogue,” Anti-Defamation League, July 6 2005.
Sam Ser,“Another US church mulls divestment,” The Jerusalem Post, July 1 2005.
Bar Ilan University’s Site on Academic Boycotts Against Israel and their Implications
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
“Report: UK Jews Blast Church Report on Divestiture from Israel,” Ha’aretz, – May 27, 2005.
Ruth Gledhill, “Church Urged to Reconsider Investments with Israel,” Times (London), May 27, 2005.
Gerald Steinberg, “The NGO Network and anti-Israel Boycotts: ‘War by other Means,'” The Jerusalem Post, May 22, 2005.
NGO Monitor: “The Central Role of PNGO in the AUT Academic Boycott,” May 10 2005.
Gerald Steinberg, “Boycotting the Jews,” Wall Street Journal (European Edition), April 29, 2005.
NGO Monitor: “HRW and Amnesty Promote Caterpillar Boycott,” April 13, 2005.
“Review of Caterpillar Sales to Israel is Rejected,” (Link has expired) Reuters, April 13, 2005.
Teresa Watanabe, “Jews Target Caterpillar Shareholder Effort,” LA Times, April 13, 2005.
Eugene Korn, “Stopping Sale of Products to Israel Isn’t Path to Peace,” Sun Times, April 11, 2005.
Sam Ser, “500 Million Christians Urged to Divest,” Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2005.
“ADL Dismayed By World Council of Churches Decision to Pursue Divestment As Means to Punish Israel,” ADL New York, February 22, 2005.
“Letter from Rabbis for Human Rights Condemning Presbyterian Divestment and Boycott Campaign,” July 26 2004.
