Last month the United Arab Emirates refused to give a visa to Israeli tennis star Shahar Peer so that she could play in a tournament in Dubai, and the UAE has now been fined by the women’s tennis association for…
Something great reported by Haaretz and now JSF: the British Embassy has changed its plans, and will not rent space in a Tel Aviv building partly-owned by Lev Leviev, the diamond merchant who has financed colonies in the West Bank….
Shir Hever cites four articles in Israel that demonstrate the growing concern over the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Here’s an excerpt of his piece, mentioning one of those articles: In 3 February, Nehemia Strassler, one of Israel’s most famous economic…
This piece, by Howard Friel, about the bullying by Alan Dershowitz of Hampshire College following its divestment agreement, shows that Dershowitz frequently uses the word “bigot” to describe critics of Israel. He uses the word or its derivatives 6 times…
This is from the University of Plymouth student blog in England. They say there are 30+ “occupied universities” in the UK. AFter 4 days of occupation, Plymouth students say the university has agreed on Palestinian scholarship, aid to Gaza, and…
From Alan Dershowitz’s blogpost in the Jerusalem Post. My read is that Dershowitz is afraid of what is happening in the U.S. and is desperate to stop it going forward, symbolically. Dershowitz has real power here; he has already caused…
Allen Dershowitz has finally called off the dogs and will no longer lead a worldwide divestment campaign against Hampshire College. The JTA reports: “Hampshire has now done the right thing,” [Dershowitz] said in a statement. “It has made it unequivocally…
I love the idea that a Park Slope, Brooklyn, cooperative food market might end up boycotting persimmons, peppers and mushrooms that it buys from Israel. The idea has created quite a storm, the latest front in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions…
A Canadian activist says that the University of Toronto is trying to squelch the divestment movement there by denying pro-Palestinian groups a room to meet in. The president, provost and vice provost of the school are suddenly involved in the…