This policy paper outlines the concepts of ‘broad tent’ and ‘red lines’ which were created by the Reut Institute as key concepts and pillars of the systemic global response to the delegitimization campaign. The concepts of ‘broad tent’ and ‘red lines’ were formed in response to our diagnostics of the strategy of the assault on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions’
Policy Paper: Reut’s Broad Tent and Red-Lines Approach
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, National Security on August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Israel Action Network Introduced
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, Jewish world, National Security on October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The network of Jewish Federations is set to launch an innovative initiative to catalyze the North American Jewish community response to the campaign to advance Israel’s delegitimization. The project, called the Israel Action Network (IAN), will be directed by Senior Vice President of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) Martin Raffel, who introduced the [...]
Reut Publishes Flotilla Report in English
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, Lawfare, National Security, Palestinian Challenges 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.
Is the New Israel Fund Driving a Wedge?
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, Driving a Wedge 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.
Winning The Battle for The Left
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, National Security, Two State Solution 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 [...]
The BDS Movement’s “Big Tent” Approach: Blurring the Line Between Criticism and Delegitimzation
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, National Security 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 [...]
Op-ed: How to fight delegitimization
Posted in Basic Delegitimacy, National Security, tagged Basic Delegitimacy, BDS, Boycotts Divestment & Sanctions, National Security 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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]

