UK student union to cancel G4S contract over role in Israeli prisons
19 February 2014
G4S continues to lose contracts over its deep involvement in Israeli apartheid
Activism and BDS Beat
Politico refuses to publish rebuttal of Michael Oren’s anti-Semitism smear
19 February 2014
Oren’s approach to the issue of boycott is that of a person scared of a growing nonviolent resistance to Israel’s occupation.
Israel is losing the fight against BDS
18 February 2014
Israel has no strategy and no message that can cover up this evident truth: Israel does not have an image problem that can be fixed with better PR or by defaming those who criticize it.
JTA, Jerusalem Post fall for hoax BDS campaign aimed at Rolling Stones
14 February 2014
The perpetrators of the hoax may aim to discredit Palestine solidarity activists by making it appear as if BDS activists disseminate false information and post anti-Semitic and racist content.
California students demand action against Zionist group Amcha's spying
13 February 2014
“It is time for UC Administrators to end their silence and stand up for UC students and faculty against attacks on their academic freedom and violations of their privacy,” say students.
Amid Scarlett Johansson row, French court upholds right to boycott SodaStream
12 February 2014
Jewish Daily Forward misinterprets significance of Paris ruling on occupation profiteer SodaStream
NY Times’ Roger Cohen “is a bigot, not a liberal,” says Omar Barghouti
11 February 2014
Cohen’s column comes amid a sudden spate of high-level panic about the BDS movement.
BBC report on Israeli hi-tech bolsters case for boycott
10 February 2014
A report this week by BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is the latest version of the ‘Israel as hi-tech miracle’ story to appear in mainstream media.
Boycott and Zionists’ crocodile tears for Palestinian workers
6 February 2014
Israel’s apologists have a new line: if you don’t buy products made in Israeli settlements, then you’ll put Palestinians who make them out of a job.
New York students slam CUNY collaboration with Israeli academia
5 February 2014
Student activists to CUNY chancellor: “you do not speak for us” in condemning the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli institutions.