Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions’

Reut Publishes Flotilla Report in English

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Reut Institute published today the English version of its report on the May 31st Gaza Flotilla. The report analyzes the strategic significance and systemic context of the incident and offers recommendations on how to prevent similar occurrences in the future.

Read Full Post »

Is the New Israel Fund Driving a Wedge?

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

An article in the Forward suggests that board members within the New Israel Fund (NIF) are discussing bringing in policy guidelines as to which organizations receive funding. This would be an important step in driving a wedge between critics of Israeli policy and delegitimizers of its existence.

Read Full Post »

Winning The Battle for The Left

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In a piece published on the Huffington Post, freelance writer and self-identified liberal leftist (and two-time Ralph Nader voter) Alan Krinsky delineates “8 Reasons Leftists Should be Pro-Israel,” among these human rights, peace, and self defense. Krinsky premises the piece in a rejection of a phenomenon of singling Israel out for criticism with a unique [...]

Read Full Post »

The BDS Movement’s “Big Tent” Approach: Blurring the Line Between Criticism and Delegitimzation

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , on August 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Last week , the National Council of Churches Australia (NCCA) issued a statement asking Australians to consider boycotting goods produced by Israeli settlements in the West Bank in solidarity with Palestinian Christians.  The move comes less than one month after the Methodist Church of Britain took similar steps towards joining the boycott, divestment and sanctions [...]

Read Full Post »

Op-ed: How to fight delegitimization

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , on April 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I recently had an op-ed published in the Jewish Journal about our team’s work on delegitimization. In it, I describe how the deployment of the several principles and a rich understanding of the structural roots of the trend of delegitimization against Israel may help stem the tide against what is increasingly becoming a strategic threat against [...]

Read Full Post »

Same means, different ends: The TUC and PSC boycott settlement-produced goods

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Berkeley BDS and the All or Nothing Dynamic

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , 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.”

Read Full Post »

It is not about Naomi Klein, but about ‘Kleinism’

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Defining Delegitimization: My Response to Naomi Klein

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Israel Apartheid Week: Delegitimization not Criticism

Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged , , on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »