News type: Analysis
Boycotting Israel in Kuwait: The Long Way Back
As the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel continues to grow internationally, it is lagging in the Arab World –...
United Methodist Church’s shameful failure to divest from injustice
Many things in this conflict are counterproductive to peace, but divestment from Israel’s occupation is not one of them. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler)...
BDS for Palestinian Rights: “Equality or Nothing!”
The Palestinian right to equality is neither negotiable nor relative; it is the sine qua non of a just peace in Palestine and the region. As Edward...
Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians
A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa...
Should US churches divest from Israel?
As two US churches consider resolutions, we examine the BDS movement and ask if it helps or hinders peace efforts. Two major US churches are...
Why BDS doesn't come with a map
In recent reactions to the BDS movement, writers like Peter Beinart, Daniel Levy and Thomas Friedman have offered criticism. This criticism, however...
Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should Be Used to Target Israeli Apartheid
I read with great interest Peter Beinart’s recent New York Times op-ed “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements.” His thesis is straightforward:...
Why We Need an Open Debate on Israel
Is Israel a threat to world peace? German writer Günter Grass has been blasted as an anti-Semite this week for making just such a claim in a new poem...
How detention without charge links Israel and apartheid South Africa
Will hunger strikes spark mass revolt in Palestine like they did in South Africa? (Issam Rimawi / APA images) The hunger strikes undertaken by...
BDS Successes against Corporations: A response to Anshel Pfeffer
On February 22 Anshel Pfeffer, writing about Corporate Watch's recent book Targeting Israeli Apartheid in Ha'aretz, claimed that “while the movement...