The UK’s Trade Union Congress (TUC), which represents 6.5 million British workers, recently launched a campaign to promote a consumer boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements. This comes against the backdrop of a recent British government decision, which recommended specially marking settlement-produced goods. The campaign promoted by the influential TUC demonstrates the growing influence [...]
Posts Tagged ‘BDS’
Same means, different ends: The TUC and PSC boycott settlement-produced goods
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Bottom up processes, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, National Security on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Berkeley BDS and the All or Nothing Dynamic
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged All or Nothing Dynamic, Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, Driving a Wedge, National Security on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting article by Bradley Burston touches on the recent BDS campaign at the University of California, Berkeley and argues that it makes peace harder, rather than easier to achieve as it “feeds the far-right portrayal of proponents of an independent Palestine as being unremitting opponents of anything and anyone Israeli.”
It is not about Naomi Klein, but about ‘Kleinism’
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged apartheid week, Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, National Security on March 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last week Naomi Klein, a Canadian writer, political activist and an internationally prominent speaker for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel (BDS), published a vitriolic response to an interview I gave on CBC/Radio-Canada, in which I mentioned her name as a one of the few significant individuals living in Toronto that promote Israel’s [...]
Defining Delegitimization: My Response to Naomi Klein
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, Hubs of Delegitimization, Naomi Klein, National Security on March 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Several weeks ago I was interviewed on the CBC’s morning radio show about the danger of the trend to delegitimize Israel. In this context I was asked to refer to Toronto, in which we at Reut believe there is turbulent anti-Israel activity that stretches far beyond legitimate criticism of Israeli policy. Among a few other things, I [...]
ReView: Eroding Israel’s Legitimacy in the International Arena
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged BDS, boycott, Delegitimization, divestment, Lawfare, National Security, Pariah State, sanctions on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reut ReViews map a collection of events that constitute a trend, which may render an element of a policy of the governmen t irrelevant. Israel is facing a dramatic assault on the very legitimacy of its existence as a Jewish and democratic state. The groups promoting this delegitimacy aim to isolate Israel and ultimately turn [...]
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