Boycotts of Israel Concepts

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

by Max Blumenthal · 27 Nov 2012 · 840pp · 224,391 words

of Israel for the crime of apartheid, an effort that has since emerged as a central plank in the growing international movement to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel, known as BDS. As the years went on, Makhoul amplified his calls for a single democratic state between the river and the sea

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not in the pilot’s seat anymore. Instead, he was on his way to Poland to meet coordinators of the international, Palestinian-led movement to boycott Israel. In late June 2010, Yonatan joined Ewa Jasiewicz, a Polish human rights activist who had just sailed on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, for a special

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to pass in some form. When it was first introduced, the bill promised to criminalize supporting the BDS movement, or even promoting the boycott of settlement goods, inside Israel. Israeli citizens participating in BDS-related activity would face fines and possible jail time. And international activists would be deported for supporting BDS

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strategy inspired by the global boycott that helped end apartheid rule in South Africa. The call demanded various means of creative grassroots pressure and boycotts until Israel met three key obligations under international law: 1.Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the wall

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at the conference determined to make their voices heard. With backing from Jewish Voice for Peace, an emerging national group that promoted targeted boycotts of companies involved in Israel’s occupation, they called themselves Young, Jewish, and Proud. Among them was Rachel Roberts, at the time a thirty-three-year-old civil

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announced that he would quit building settlements in the West Bank.* The Yedioth Ahronoth article about the BDS movement’s success was hyperbolically headlined, “Anti-Israel boycotters increasingly successful in strangling economy of Jewish state.” Internationally acclaimed recording artists from Elvis Costello to the Pixies to Carlos Santana have pulled out of

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of occupation falls and Palestinians live alongside Israelis in the peace, freedom, justice, and dignity that they all deserve.” The gathering momentum of the cultural boycott sent Israel’s wealthiest and most prominent concert promoter, Shuki Weiss, into a sputtering panic. After the famous alternative rock band, the Pixies, canceled a June

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the occasion. In the first of a series of white papers, Reut warned, “The wave of cancellations by international artists and the increasing calls to boycott Israel are being led by the BDS movement, which under the disguise of a progressive liberal movement is in practice promoting delegitimization.” Reut presented the paper

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represented a streamlined version of a previous proposal that would have punished boycotters with actual jail time while deporting any non-citizen who called for boycotts of Israel in their own country. In its new, diluted form, the bill explicitly punished speech considered harmful to the Jewish state, allowing any Israeli who

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for a boycott—no evidence required—to sue the perpetrator in a civil court. The bill read: “It is forbidden to initiate a boycott against the State of Israel, to encourage participation in it or to provide assistance or information in order to promote it.” Anat Mattar was one of the first

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fact modeled after a similar law on the books in the United States. “Today, if an American citizen or an American company participates in a boycott of Israel, they can expect very heavy fines; economic fines and even jail sentences of several years,” Elkin claimed. It’s a very far-reaching law

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, and it is an active law,” he claimed. But this was false—there was no law in the United States threatening these boycotters of Israel with any form of punishment. The only American legal provision remotely similar to Elkin’s bill was an obsolete, Cold War–era rule that suspended

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case. When I pointed this out to Elkin, asking that he provide an example of an American who was punished for organizing a campaign to boycott Israel for the occupation policy, he insisted—falsely again—that no American had ever done such a thing, so the law had never been applied. Suddenly

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get confused,” the prime minister declared. “I approved the law, and if I hadn’t approved it, it wouldn’t have passed. I am against boycotts targeting Israel.” Beating back criticism from Livni, who accused him of “leading Israel into an abyss,” Netanyahu mocked the Kadima Party for its capricious behavior. “You

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the Nazi SS—“Judeo-Nazis” who were “just following orders.” The professor’s speech inspired widespread outrage, with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowing to boycott the Israel Prize ceremony if it did not rescind its award. Knesset members took to the floor the following day with breathless denunciations, branding Leibowitz a traitor

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.net/2010/11/is-lev-leviev-out-of-the-settlement-building-business.html. Note: Africa-Israel may have started building new settlements in 2013. 211Anti-Israel boycotters: Giulio Meotti. “Is BDS Campaign Working?” YNetnews.com, August 31, 2011, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4115718,00.html. 211dignity that they

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, “Israel Prepares to Pass Law Banning Citizens from Calling for Boycotts,” Guardian, July 11, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/11/israel-law-banning-citizens-boycotts. 222The settlers are the real: Yossi Verter, “The settlers Are the Real Government of Israel,” Ha’aretz, July 15, 2011, http://www.haaretz

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, “The settlers are the real government” 223I approved the law: Jonathan Lis, “Netanyahu: Boycott Law Reflects Democracy in Israel,” Ha’aretz, July 13, 2011, http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-boycott-law-reflects-democracy-in-israel-1.373058. 223leading Israel into an abyss: Leslie Susser, “Livni Sticks to Her Guns,” Jerusalem Post, June

Antisemitism: Here and Now

by Deborah E. Lipstadt · 29 Jan 2019 · 276pp · 71,950 words

, Labour was faced with the need to do another about-face. Though Corbyn’s office has insisted that he does not support blanket boycotts and sanctions on Israel, but only on items produced in West Bank settlements, footage emerged from 2015 of his participation in a panel in Ireland in which he

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called for a blanket boycott of Israel “to be part and parcel of the legal process and for sanctions against Israel.” This array of self-contradictory stances, convoluted corrections, and reversals

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that she was being “silenced” and subjected to a right-wing smear campaign. Faculty linked with the United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) described the Yudof and Waltzer article as part of a “campaign of intimidation and harassment” against Professor Puar. Despite the fact that their

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sanctions against Israel. Its goal is to punish Israel for what it terms Israel’s “apartheid” policies toward Israeli and Palestinian Arabs. But Arab-sponsored boycotts against Israel go back decades, to the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, international supporters of the Zionist movement, and Jews in general. In 1945, before

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’ agendas. The final declaration adopted by the NGO forum laid the groundwork for the BDS movement by equating Zionism with racism and calling for a boycott of Israel. One of the stated goals of the BDS movement is establishing a right of return for Palestinians throughout the world, which in practical terms

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a planned appearance at the President’s Conference in Israel in 2013 because he had “come under heavy pressure from activists who favor an academic boycott of Israel, both within Britain and outside it, [and] decided to listen to his Palestinian colleagues and stay home.”17 But BDS has not only targeted

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start somewhere.” Equally strange was the answer given by University of Texas professor Barbara Harlow when she was asked why she was advocating an academic boycott of Israel and not any other country accused of human-rights abuses. Her response: “Why not?”8 The proponents of these campaigns would vigorously deny that

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fail, if not backfire, on the campus. American Jewish communal leaders have boasted that, as of spring 2017, seventeen states have passed legislation against boycotts of Israel. They also made mention of the fact that at “the federal level, Congress passed a law that opposes politically motivated actions that penalize or otherwise

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that BDS is antithetical to the foundation stones of higher education. On campus, “boycotting the boycotters” will do more than just fail. By urging boycotts of anti-Israel groups, the anti-BDS advocates surrender the academic moral high ground—support of academic freedom and freedom of inquiry—to their opponents. Yours, DEL

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York Times, February 16, 1993. 16. Sabah A. Salih, “Islamism, BDS, and the West,” in Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm, The Case against Academic Boycotts of Israel (Chicago: MLA Members for Scholars’ Rights, 2015), p. 149. PIXILATING THE PROBLEM 1. Andrew Sullivan, “BBC Weeps for Yasser Arafat,” New York Sun, November

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…Again,” Observer, February 9, 2016. 9. Yudof and Waltzer, “Majoring in Anti-Semitism at Vassar.” 10. U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, “Letter in Support of Professor Jasbir Puar Regarding Right-Wing Attacks on Her Recent Talk at Vassar College,” USACBI, February 2016; Jason Stanley, “The Free

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, 2017, bdsmovement.net/. 5. “The PACBI Call for Academic Boycott Revised: Adjusting the Parameters of the Debate,” PACBI—Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel, January 28, 2006, pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1051; Donna Robinson Divine, “The Boycott Debate at Smith,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the

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Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 136; Gabriel Noah Brahm and Asaf Romirowsky, “Anti-Semitic in Intent if Not in Effect,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the

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Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 80. 6. Mark Yudof, “We Must Defeat BDS Macro-Aggression,” Times of Israel, December 9, 2015. 7. Cary Nelson, “The Problem with Judith Butler

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,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 195. 8. Michael Bérubé, “Boycott Bubkes: The Murky Logic of the ASA’s Resolution,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic

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Boycott of Israel, p. 132. 9. Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen, eds., Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015), p. 42, as

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BDS Movement: A Guide and Resource Book for Faculty (Academic Engagement Network, November 2016), p. 14. 10. Judith Butler, “Academic Freedom and the ASA’s Boycott of Israel,” Nation, December 8, 2013. 11. David Hirsh, “The American Studies Association Boycott Resolution, Academic Freedom, and the Myth of the Institutional Boycott,” in Nelson

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and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic Boycott of Israel, pp. 122–23. 12. https://rototomsunsplash.com/en/rototom. 13. Herb Keinon, “Matisyahu: Anti-Semitism at Spanish Festival Was Something I Never Experienced Before

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to Claire Potter from David Hirsh,” Engage, December 17, 2013. 21. Martha Nussbaum, “Against Academic Boycotts,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic Boycott of Israel, pp. 43, 45. 22. American Association of University Professors, “On Academic Boycotts,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic

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POLITICS? 1. “The PACBI Call for Academic Boycott Revised: Adjusting the Parameters of the Debate”; “PACBI Guidelines for the International Academic Boycott of Israel,” Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, July 31, 2014, www.pacbi.org/einside.php?id=69+. 2. Ellen Willis, “Is There Still a Jewish Question? Why

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the Israel/Palestine Conflict (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 168–69, as quoted in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 192. 7. Himmelstein, “Stanford Professors Take Stand against Divestment.” 8. Richard Pérez-Peña, “Scholars’ Group to Disclose Result of Vote on an Academic

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Boycott of Israel,” New York Times, December 16, 2013; Mitchell Cohen, “Anti-Semitism and the Left That Doesn’t Learn,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the

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Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 159. 9. Mark Yudof, “BDS and Campus Politics: A Bad Romance,” Inside Higher Ed, December 14, 2015. 10. Kenneth L. Marcus, “Is the

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Boycott Movement Anti-Semitic?” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 257. 11. Jennifer Medina, “Student Coalition at Stanford Confronts Allegations of Anti-Semitism,” New York Times, April 14, 2015. 12. Julius, Trials of

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Studies Association, the BDS Vote Was Over Before It Began,” Forward, November 30, 2015. 12. “Introduction,” in Nelson and Brahm, The Case Against the Academic Boycott of Israel, p. 21. 13. Yair Rosenberg, “Four Reasons the Chicago Dyke March’s Banning of Jewish Stars Was Anti-Semitic,” Tablet, June 28, 2017. 14

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, 2017. 2. “Antisemitism Tracker Organized by State,” AMCHA Initiative, August 22, 2017; Judy Maltz, “Jewish Group Releases Blacklist of U.S. Professors Who Back Academic Boycott of Israel,” Haaretz, March 30, 2017. 3. Jane Eisner, “Why Accuse Israeli Singer Noa of Backing BDS, When She Rejects It Outright?” Forward, February 22, 2016

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Event over Singer Noa’s Alleged BDS Support but Achinoam ‘Noa’ Nini, No Stranger to Controversy over Her Politics, Says She’s ‘Completely’ Opposed to Israel Boycott,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, February 21, 2016. 4. Amir Tibon, “Portman’s Boycott of Netanyahu Borders on Antisemitism, Israeli Minister Says,” Haaretz, April 22, 2018. 5

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

by Noa Tishby · 5 Apr 2021 · 338pp · 101,967 words

rest of humanity. So far, so good. I fully stand for the above as well. The popular narrative is that BDS pushes for a boycott of Israel only in reaction to Israeli policies in the occupied territories and only in order to press the Israeli government to do the right thing and

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Tel Aviv University. If you haven’t caught the irony, allow me to hand it to you: Barghouti became an advocate for the academic boycott of Israel while holding a degree from an Israeli university. The BDS movement now has a professional US headquarters, yet it still presents itself as a “grassroots

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” Palestinian movement. We will get to this soon, too, I promise. So, given the antisemitic history of boycott movements against Israel, is BDS antisemitic or “just” anti-Israel? Let’s use the criteria created by Natan Sharansky, a world-renowned human rights activist who spent

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, without being afraid of being killed when they go back to Iraq? And not only is the help not being received by our neighbors, the “boycott Israel” movements have become legitimate, and Israel of all places has become in some circles the regional Death Star. Activists from Baghdad to Berkeley to Brandeis

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are crying for sanctions and boycotts, effectively trying to stop Israel from helping the world and her neighbors advance in technology, healthcare, and agriculture, to stop Israelis from hiring Palestinians in Rawabi, and from

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, from the November 29, 1957, Haboker newspaper by Colin Legum, acknowledges my grandfather’s success in real time: Ghana chose international relations with Israel despite an Arab boycott and severe warnings from Arab countries. Ghana decided to collaborate with Israel on a variety of industries such as communal agriculture, water, roads and

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, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. BDS —A movement which is promoting Boycott Divestment and Sanctions on Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu —Israel’s long-lasting prime minister from 1996 to 1999, and 2009–?. Chachtzchhim —A derogatory slang word used to describe a person acting

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David M. Halbfinger, Michael Winers, and Steven Erlanger, “Is BDS Antisemitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel Campaign,” New York Times, July 27, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/world/middleeast/bds-israel-boycott-antisemitic.html. 4 BDS, “In Their Own Words.” 5 “Defeating Denormalization: Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on

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.html. 9 “BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti Warns the First Bank of Abu Dhabi and the Other UAE Companies Against Doing Business with Israel: We Will Call for Boycott of Any Such Company or Bank,” MEMRI, September 17, 2020, https://www.memri.org/tv/bds-co-founder-omar-barghouthi-warns-abu-dhabi

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Frank Barat · 9 Nov 2010 · 279pp · 72,659 words

entire world. During my recent trip to Israel/Palestine it became obvious (talking to people, reading newspapers, watching the news) that something scared Israel a lot: a boycott. Are you in favor of this type of action and do you think that it could bear fruit? Pappé: Yes I am and I

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Demise of the Two-State Solution (London: Zed Books 2007). 5 The Web site of that campaign is the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel, www.pacbi.org. 6 See Meron Benvisiti, “The Binationalism Vogue,” Haaretz, April 30, 2009. This was written as a response to the March 2009

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,” Dissent XIX, no. 3 (Summer 1972): 492-99, quote page 497. 4 Alan Dershowitz (video), www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCShwgO6M1M. 5 Barak Ravid, “Israel to Boycott ‘Durban II’ Anti-racism Conference,” November 21, 2008, Haaretz.com, www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038984.html. 6 “Israeli Diplomat Postpones Meeting after Costa Rica

The Profiteers

by Sally Denton · 556pp · 141,069 words

had long been dogged by allegations of systemic, companywide anti-Semitism, due in part to its unwavering support of the anti-Jewish Arab boycott prohibiting trade with Israel. At a time when oil companies fostered a growing suspicion of Israel in response to its declaration of an independent state and its 1948

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, “who repeatedly harangued Steve senior about the alleged perfidy of ‘Zionists,’ ” as Laton McCartney described it, Steve rejected all business opportunities that arose in Israel. The boycott, which the Arab League established in 1945, was meant to isolate Israel and to thwart the rise of its military and economic power. Steve Sr

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divisions or subsidiaries had refused to subcontract work in the Middle East to American companies blacklisted by the Arab League as part of their economic boycott of Israel. While Shultz distantly defended Bechtel’s role with the League, Weinberger bore the brunt of the criticism. As general counsel, he had approved the

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for Israel.” ABC News, March 21, 2013. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/who-is-jonathan-pollard-obama-heckled-over-spy-for-israel. Washington Post. “The Boycott Issue.” January 26, 1976. Week. “Our Aging Nuclear Arsenal.” January 23, 2015. Weinstein, Henry. “Loans to Iraq May Have Funded Arms, U.S

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of principle and policy has been joined by the Justice Department’s civil suit charging the San Francisco–based Bechtel Corporation with supporting the Arab Boycott of Israel.” January 28, 1976. Declassified May 4, 2006. From Secretary of State, Washington, DC, to Embassies at Abu Dhabi, Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Doha

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Jr., 8, 20, 21, 22, 45 Bechtel (Bechtel corporation in general) American exceptionalism belief of, 24, 74 antiregulatory, antigovernment stance of, 11 Arab boycott of trade with Israel and, 125–27, 128–29, 146 bad publicity for, 120–21, 123–24, 127, 147–49, 213 as company that can “build anything, any

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Weinberger and weapons transfer to, 188, 198 Iraq Petroleum Company, 62 Iraq War, 3 iron-ore slurry pipelines, 146 irrigation construction projects, 235 ISIS, 3 Israel Arab boycott of trade with, 124, 125–26, 129, 146 Bechtel’s pipeline project in Iraq and guarantee from, 188–90, 191, 192 Bechtel’s business

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, 238 Allende coup in Chile and, 97, 98–99 as Bechtel consultant, 99, 121, 126–27, 184, 209 Bechtel’s participation in Arab boycott of trade with Israel and, 126–27 biotech company Theranos and, 305 on George Shultz, 109 Iran-Iraq war and, 172 Nixon administration and, 110, 132 nuclear nonproliferation

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, 129, 191 US Department of State, 126 Bechtel officers’ moving to, 7 Bechtel’s contacts at, 77, 123 Bechtel’s participation in Arab boycott of trade with Israel and, 126–27 Bush’s reconstruction plans for Iraq and, 5 Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program of, 215 Council on Foreign Relations and, 113

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, Colorado, pilot plant, 305 Iraq’s program for, 3, 172, 199, 228, 229 Weaver, Craig, 152 Weeks, Sinclair, 75 Weinberger, Caspar (“Cap”) Arab boycott of trade with Israel and, 127, 128–29 background of, 117–18 Bechtel position of, 105, 115, 116–17, 119–20, 123, 126, 127, 128–29, 133–34

Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted

by Daniel Sokatch · 18 Oct 2021 · 556pp · 95,955 words

liberals into uber-conservatives on one issue alone. It is the story of why some otherwise compassionate and judicious progressives feel driven to single Israel out for boycotts, sanctions, and a level of condemnation they would never dream of applying to, say, any of the dozens of worse state actors out there

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we will take a closer look at in part 2) includes laws that: •Made it a civil offense for Israelis to call for a boycott of Israel or its settlements and prohibited entry into Israel of foreigners who did the same. Yes, technically you can be denied entry into Israel if you

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BDS movement, and it calls on Israel to be thrown out of all international organizations and for all countries to cut ties with, boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel until it fully complies with international law by, in the BDS movement’s own words: Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab

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of a “one-state solution” is likely to succeed at the moment. Still, there are more than a few people who support applying boycotts, divestment, or sanctions to Israel who aren’t part of the official BDS movement, don’t want to see Israel disappear, and aren’t really concerned with future

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want to see an end to the occupation, a modicum of justice for 2.7 million Palestinians, and a two-state solution. Pressuring Israel through nonviolent means like boycotts, divestment, and sanctions seems like a reasonable way of working toward this goal. In fact, the U.S. government applied just this kind

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points. That’s why BDS is such a difficult issue to get one’s head around. CONFLATING CALLS TO BOYCOTT THE SETTLEMENTS WITH CALLS TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL Muddying the waters further is the fact that the Israeli government and its allies love to purposefully conflate criticism of Israel’s West Bank settlements

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movement proper. Remember the anti-boycott law we read about in chapter 14, which made it a civil offense for any Israeli to call for boycotts against Israel, including the settlements? This is all part and parcel of the Israeli government’s campaign to erase the Green Line from the mental maps

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in the large settlement of Ariel, and they called on fellow artists to join them. This open letter was not a call for anyone to boycott Israel, and it had nothing to do with the BDS movement. These were patriotic Israeli artists protesting their government’s policy in the West Bank by

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in the West Bank. While the congresswomen had both been very critical of the occupation and had even expressed some support for the campaign to boycott Israel in protest of its policies in the West Bank, it has always been almost a sacrament for successive Israeli governments to maintain strong bonds with

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more than thirty states have passed or considered laws that would ban American citizens from calling for boycotts of Israel or the settlements. These bills and laws essentially copy the language of Israel’s own Anti-Boycott Law. Their supporters claim the laws are aimed at showing support for Israel and combating antisemitism. Critics

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of leading to the imposition of a boycott—if the issuer was aware of this possibility.” The amendment stipulates that this refers not only to boycotts of Israel, but also to boycotts of any Israeli institutions or “any area under its control.” CHAPTER 20 THE A-WORD OF ALL THINGS about this

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.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/28/israel-im-tirtzu-accused-mccarthyism-anti-artist-campaign. HereMade it a civil offense for Israelis to call for a boycott of Israel or its settlements: Jonathan Lis, “Israel Passes Law Banning Calls for Boycott,” Haaretz, Nov. 7, 2011, https://www.haaretz.com/1.5026309;Jonathan Lis

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, “Israel’s Travel Ban: Knesset Bars Entry to Foreigners Who Call for Boycott of Israel or Settlements,” https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-bars-entry-to-foreigners-who-call-for-boycott-of-settlements-1.5445566. HerePunished Arab municipalities

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al., “Is B.D.S. Anti-Semitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel Campaign,” New York Times, July 27, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/world/middleeast/bds-israel-boycott-antisemitic.html. Here“strategic threat”: Peter Beaumont, “Israel Brands Palestinian-led Boycott Movement a ‘Strategic Threat,’” Guardian, June 3, 2015, https://www.theguardian

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.com/world/2015/jun/03/israel-brands-palestinian-boycott-strategic-threat-netanyahu. Heremore U.S. military aid than all other

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor and Saul Singer · 3 Nov 2009 · 285pp · 81,743 words

launched in 1943, five years before Israel’s founding. This ban extended to foreign companies from any country that bought from or sold to Israel (the “secondary” boycott), and even to companies that traded with these blacklisted companies (the “tertiary” boycott). Almost all the major Japanese and Korean car manufacturers—including Honda

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and tertiary targets, and identified new prospects. According to Christopher Joyner of George Washington University, “Of all the contemporary boycotts, the League of Arab States’ boycott against Israel is, ideologically, the most virulent; organizationally, the most sophisticated; politically, the most protracted; and legally, the most polemical.”4 The boycott has at times

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systems, de Gaulle’s decision made a pivotal contribution to Israel’s economy. The major increase in military R&D that followed France’s boycott of Israel gave a generation of Israeli engineers remarkable experience. But it would not have catalyzed Israel’s start-up hothouse if it had not been combined

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from exports to Europe, North America, and Asia. When those economies slow down or collapse, Israeli start-ups have fewer customers. Because of the Arab boycott, Israel does not have access to most regional markets. And the domestic market is far too small to serve as a substitute. Israeli companies will also

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History of Arab Economic Warfare Against Israel (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986), appendix. 3. Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal, “The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: The Automobile Market,” Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 1998), p. 5. 4. Christopher Joyner, quoted in Aaron J. Sarna, Boycott

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and Blacklist: A History of Arab Economic Warfare Against Israel, p. xiv. 5. Sarna, Boycott and Blacklist, pp. 56–57. 6. Interview with Orna Berry, venture partner, Gemini Israel Funds, January 2009. 7. Interview with Gil Kerbs, venture

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in Mitteldeutschland.” Harvard Business School Case 707-004, August 2006. Case Library, Harvard Business Publishing. Fershtman, Chaim, and Neil Gandal. “The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: the Automobile Market.” Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 1998): pp. 193–214. Fick, Nathaniel. One Bullet Away: The Making of

How Long Will Israel Survive Threat Wthn

by Gregg Carlstrom · 14 Oct 2017 · 337pp · 100,541 words

summit to help the Bush administration combat international criticism of the Iraq war. One by one, guests took the stage and described the Palestinian-led boycott as Israel’s greatest threat. Gilad Erdan, the minister in charge of fighting BDS, warned that campaigners would be made to “pay a very high price

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ran the foreign ministry’s public affairs department before he retired from the civil service in 2014. At a time of growing division in Israel, the anti-boycott campaign offers politicians a chance to wave the flag. The European Union opposes BDS, but it did decide in November 2015 to require labels

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the diaspora have called for a settlement boycott. Except on the far left, though, they are quick to stress that they do not wish to boycott Israel as a whole. “A settlement boycott is not enough. It must be paired with an equally vigorous embrace of democratic Israel,” Peter Beinart wrote in

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Israeli Politics”, New York Times, 15 December 2016. 2. “The Peace Index: November 2016”, Rep. Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2016. 3. Beinart, Peter, “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements”, New York Times, 18 March 2012. 4. A comprehensive analysis of economic and other costs which the state of Israel bears for settlements

The Case for Israel

by Alan Dershowitz · 31 Jul 2003

Prime Human Rights Violator in the World? 181 29. Is There Moral Equivalence between Palestinian Terrorists and Israeli Responses? 189 30. Should Universities Divest from Israel and Boycott Israeli Scholars? 197 31. Are Critics of Israel Anti-Semitic? 208 32. Why Do So Many Jews and Even Israelis Side with the Palestinians

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Iraq, Libya, and Cuba are collective punishments imposed on large populations for the deeds of their leaders. So were the sanctions and boycotts imposed against Israel by the Arab League. Israel’s policy of demolishing the homes of terrorists or those who harbor them is a soft form of collective punishment directed against

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equivalent is an immoral and dangerous form of artificial symmetry. c30.qxd 6/25/03 8:37 AM 30 Page 197 Should Universities Divest from Israel and Boycott Israeli Scholars? THE ACCUSATION Israel’s actions, more than those of any other nation, warrant divestment and boycott. THE ACCUSERS “We the undersigned . . . call

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by ignorance, bigotry, and cynicism. Led by efforts at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other schools to end university investment in Israel and to boycott Israeli speakers and academics, this campaign seeks to delegitimize and isolate Israel as a pariah state. The campaign also seeks to convey to college

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of Jews • Cultural anti-Semitism. The mélange of attitudes, sentiments, and discourse of “fashionable” salon intellectuals • Economic anti-Semitism, which goes beyond the Arab boycott of Israel to include extra-territorial application of restrictive covenants against countries trading with Israel • Holocaust denial • Racist terrorism against Jews • Denial to Israel of equality before

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Extremist Group,” Washington Post, January 16, 2003. 7. Elshtain, p. 20. 8. Boston Globe, June 7, 2003, p. A14. CHAPTER 30 Should Universities Divest from Israel and Boycott Israeli Scholars? 1. Lecture, Harvard University, November 25, 2002. 2. Congressional Record, Senate, February 8, 1989, S1294. 3. Elaine Sciolino, “U.S. Says It

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine

by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor · 14 Jun 2012 · 293pp · 89,712 words

but at least I am trying to work through them.” Cohen is a prominent Israeli activist who has most recently been involved in international boycott campaigns of Israel. Early in the work of the AATW, he lost his eye after being hit directly with a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli border

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the grounds that unarmed and non-violent resistance to the occupation works. Founded in 2005, the BDS movement has quickly inflicted significant damage on Israel through boycotts of Israeli products, academic institutions and artists which meet specific criteria of complicity in Israel’s occupation. The Gaza aid flotilla movement is another component

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rights activist committed to upholding international law and universal human rights. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)and the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical