Israel BDS

Fringe rabbis recruit Jewish clergy to lobby against US military aid to Israel, halt weapons sales

The coalition, called 'Rabbis for Block the Bombs, ' launched publicly on 23 August and so far has 92 signatories.

Demonstrators from the group Jewish Voice for Peace hold an emergency Passover Seder outside of ICE headquarters on April 14, 2025 in New York City. The group is calling for freedom for Palestine, the release of Mahmoud Khalil, and to protest President Trump.
Providence City Hall in Providence, Rhode Island on May 28, 2020

Providence voters to decide Israel-linked divestment measure in November referendum

 CUNY Law School.

CUNY ordered to disclose all investments in companies with alleged ties to Israel

Member of Parliament Abtisam Mohamed looks on on the day Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a ministerial statement on Hamas' October 7 attack anniversary and the Middle East at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, October 7, 2024.

British lawmakers press government for immediate ban on Israeli West Bank settlement imports


New Hampshire becomes 37th US state to adopt anti-BDS law

The Governor of New Hampshire issued an executive order prohibiting the state from working with entities involved in the BDS movement.

 NH Gov. Christopher Sununu signed an executive order today against the anti-Israel BDS movement. Looking on to his immediate right is Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Gilad Erdan.

Letter to Israel from a Diaspora Zionist - opinion

Our challenges are your challenges; and your heartbreaking summers of rockets pummeling the cities of Israel, of innocent civilians losing lives to terror, are our veytik (“pain” in Yiddish).

 THE WRITER displays an Israeli flag, as a pro-Palestinian demonstration takes place, in Los Angeles, last year

BDS celebrates Egypt border terrorist in Arabic Facebook post

Despite the Facebook post celebrating the actions of Ibrahim, the BDS website claims to urge “nonviolent pressure on Israel.”

 Israeli soldiers and rescue forces seen at Mount Harif military base in the southern Negev desert, close to the border with Egypt, on June 3, 2023.

New documentary spreads false facts about US anti-BDS laws

Major American media outlets promote the film and amplify its patently false claims and narrative.

 A PROMOTIONAL poster for the documentary ‘Boycott.’

Under pressure from the right over Israel, a Jewish nominee to a top US human rights post withdraws

President Joe Biden had nominated Margon, who was criticized for previous bashing of Israel, to be assistant secretary of state for human rights.

 Sarah Margon appaears on a panel at the Hoover Institute in Washington DC on Oct. 18, 2018.

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

The reality of Israel, and American Jews' image of Israel is not matching up

A new Zionism

Keep toxic US politics away from Israel - opinion

While the US is seeing relationships fall apart from disagreements, for the moment, Israel has social cohesion. It is dangerous to cause conflict between Israel and the diaspora by imposing US norms.

 A JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY worker hangs an American flag in Jerusalem, on Sunday in preparation for the upcoming visit of President Joe Biden. Let’s see America forever stand by allies like Israel, says the writer.

Jewish groups welcome Morningstar's new commitments to Israel

Morningstar's ties to BDS were first identified in April 2020, when the Chicago company announced it was acquiring full ownership of Amsterdam-based Sustainalytics.

 THE WRITER poses for a portrait in Chicago. ‘Morningstar does not support the anti-Israel BDS campaign; it never has and it never will,’ he says.

Wellesley College student paper openly supports anti-Israel mapping project

One liberal arts college in Massachusetts has openly supported a project that would target Jews and supporters of Israel.

 Campus life

Anti-Israel boycotts masquerade as social justice - opinion

Morningstar refuses to take responsibility for how its “responsible investment” methods have targeted Israel, after yet another confusion between Social Justice and Anti-Zionism.

 BDS ACTIVISTS in action