[Opinion] BDS is Expanding
Yona Schiffmiller describes how BDS is expanding in the United States, infiltrating college campuses and being linked to various internal American issues, completely detached from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Campuses
BDS on American Campuses: SJP and its NGO Network
NGO Monitor's campus report identifies the broad coalition of organizations that are funding, training and assisting BDS activists on US campuses.
Topics
[Opinion] At CUNY, Students Blame Israel for Tuition Hikes
Yitzhak Santis discusses Students for Justice in Palestines virulently anti-Israel activities on college campuses, including linking a tuition hike in the CUNY system to its "Zionist administration," and notes the network of politicized NGOs that fund and support the groups events.
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Driving a Wedge: JVPs Strategy to Weaken U.S. Support for Israel by Dividing the Jewish Community
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a U.S.-based organization, which views itself as the Jewish wing of the Palestinian solidarity movement and seeks to create a wedge within the American Jewish community over support for Israel.
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Apartheid Week 2012: All the Usual NGO Suspects
For a number of years, the campaign to demonize Israel has organized around the so-called Apartheid Week, an initiative that fuels the conflict but has largely been a failure. NGOs and NGO activists play leading roles in these events.
