From the Jerusalem Post: “In addition to the problems and difficulties arising from the global economic crisis, 21 percent of [90] local exporters report that they are facing problems in selling Israeli goods because of an anti-Israel boycott, mainly from…
The following report was sent to us by a long time U.S.-based activist for a just peace in Israel/Palestine posting under the name Rie Graham. It is in response to a discussion between Naomi Klein and Rabbi Arthur Waskow on…
I disagree with just about everything Samuel Freedman, a parochialist, writes, but boy is he smart and sensitive. He knows which way the arrow’s pointing, as we say in college basketball. Writing in the Jerusalem Post: The two-state solution, to…
Three days after carrying Stanley Fish’s argument against the academic boycott of Israel, the Times may have unwittingly offered the best argument for the cultural boycott. Ethan Bronner’s front page article “After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation” outlines…
Weird. Here’s a statement by Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers saying the AFT opposes the academic boycott of Israel. OK. Some people don’t like this kind of thing. But the AFT includes the gratuitous and erroneous statement…
As any regular visitor to this site knows, I have conflicted feelings about my relationship to the Jewish community. Though I am always proudly Jewish, I announce that I am assimilating, anti-Zionist, non-Zionist, realist, leftist. I have a love-hate thing…
This is a cool boycott action video from a French supermarket. And here’s an explanation of the green-shirted action in the video, for the French-impaired (from an email that’s being passed around): Mostly, they are talking about the products they…
But, writing in the Times, he’s against an academic boycott of Israel, as a blunt instrument you only get out when you’re dealing with the Third Reich.