An important new documentary tells the story of anti-BDS laws and the people who have stood up to them.
It was supposed to be the “Iron Dome” to stop social media attacks on Israel, but the apartheid reports just kept coming and coming! Act.IL, the pro-Israel app at least partially funded by the country’s government, has now been deactivated after 5 years.
Lee Zeldin and House Republicans are resurrecting a bill that aims to outlaw boycotts of Israel
Over 200 people from the entertainment industry have signed a letter denouncing the Palestinian-led boycott…
Michael Arria and Dave Reed speak with Michael Bueckert of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East about the upcoming Canadian election.
At a time when long-established rights – the right to vote, women’s right to control their own bodies, the right to organize, the free press — are all under attack, it is deplorable to see Democratic politicians join those tearing down democracy by acting on New York State Retirement System’s policies that penalize the boycott of Israel.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found a law that prohibits Arkansas from doing business with companies that boycott Israel unconstitutional in a 2-1 decision. “Today’s federal ruling represents a critically important moment in the struggle to protect free speech here at home and advance human rights overseas,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement.
Scholar Achille Mbembe was booked to speak at a German festival, but he has been smeared as antisemitic for likening Israel to apartheid South Africa and supporting the boycott campaign. Israel lobbyists are also targeting the festival director, Stefanie Carp.
As NY Mayor, Mike Bloomberg said BDS supporters want Israel to be “torn apart.” But he said trying to suppress BDS advocates’ free speech rights would help the movement. “If [you] just shut up, it would have gone away! It would be a bunch of kids on a campus. Nobody would have gone to listen to them and nobody [would have] seen it. Now they’ve created the very monster that they say they’re opposed to.”
The assault on BDS in the US and the rise of Democratic Party organizations to support Israel are evidence of the progress on the Palestine issue in the U.S. in the last decade. At last the matter is politicized. Some Democratic pols openly support Palestinian rights. This is where the struggle really needs to be, in Washington; and we can thank Benjamin Netanyahu and Bari Weiss for the damage they’ve done to their own cause.