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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 [...]

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Today signals the launch of the Sixth International Israeli Apartheid Week, which is due to take place in over 40 cities across the globe. While the organizers contend that the events do not constitute delegitimization, anti-Zionism or anti-Semitism, many thinkers believe that referring to Israel as an apartheid regime is a central aspect of demonization [...]

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The Reut Institute’s paper on Israel’s delegitimization challenge has generated widespread reaction to an issue traditionally insufficiently featured on the agenda of decision makers and in public discourse.
Much of the response to the report has taken place in international media, despite the fact that the report has yet to be translated into English. It follows [...]

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In the past couple of weeks, several articles have been published which discuss Reut’s current project on identifying the threat of fundamental delegitimacy against Israel and creating a conceptual framework to deal with it.

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The story of a university choir seeking to perform in both Israel and the PA reflects a tactic used by those seeking to boycott Israel, namely, creating an all or nothing dynamic.

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Campaigns to delegitimize Israel politically in the global arena have increasingly manifested on the legal front, very recently exemplified by a London court issuing an arrest warrant against former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. In order to address this threat, Simon Weisenthal Center’s Director for International Relations Shimon Samuels suggests going on the offensive.

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While Israel is under threat from actors seeking to undermine its political legitimacy and cause it economic damage through Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, several recent articles suggest that Israel’s economic resilience makes a successful boycott against it impossible.

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Surveying the landscape of the global effort to delegitimize the state of Israel, it’s clear that an increasingly dominant narrative seeking to impose a one-state solution is emerging.
While some proponents attempt to advance this paradigm as an expression of frustration with a stagnated peace process, others explicitly oppose the concept of a Jewish state in [...]

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Strategies promoting boycotts of Israel seem to reflect an integrated network working in a coordinate manner rather than a disparate group of organizations advancing individual agendas.

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An interesting blog post by professor and author Gil Troy focuses on one of the issues that became a major topic of discussion at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly this month – a growing movement aimed at Israel’s delegitimization. A central contributing strategy is the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement

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