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Stephen Hawking Supports Academic Boycott of Israel

Nathan Harden | Posted 05.10.2013 | College
Nathan Harden

Why, in other words, does Hawking single out Israel as the one place in the world where politics justifies an academic boycott?

Brooklyn College Political Science Department's Israel Problem

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics
Alan Dershowitz

But who's academic freedom? Do "departments" -- as distinguished from individual faculty members -- really have the right of academic freedom? Does the political science department at Brooklyn College represent only its hard left faculty?

Beck Dives Into Park Slope Food Coop Hummus Debate

Posted 02.24.2012 | New York

Glenn Beck thinks the potential boycott of Israeli products by the Park Slope Food Coop is "anti-semitic," The Brooklyn Paper reports. The former ...

Jaweed Kaleem

Major Churches Consider Divesting From Select Businesses In Israel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 02.19.2012 | Religion

A major body within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Friday to recommend that the church vote to stop investing in three companies "until they h...

Food Co-op Might Boycott Israeli Products

The New York Observer | Posted 10.03.2011 | New York

Israel and the Park Slope Food Co-op have a lot in common. Both were founded in part by Jewish socialists. Both are governed by a raucous democracy wi...

Why Is BDS a Moral Duty Today? A Response to Bernard-Henri Levy

Omar Barghouti | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Omar Barghouti

Mr. Levy attempts to smear the movement by presenting a number of misleading premises and reaching, as a result, unwarranted conclusions. What he obscures are the real objectives of the movement.

Why the Call to "Boycott Israel" Is Crap

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Regardless of what its promoters and its useful idiots say, the only real, accepted, hackneyed goal of this boycott campaign is to de-legitimize Israel as such.

Progressive? Then Don't Boycott Israel

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Ben S. Cohen

A recent article in the Nation was at its most preposterous in depicting BDS as a grassroots movement assembling Palestinians, anti-Zionist Jews, and labor unionists in a moral crusade against Zionism.

A Call for Livable Futures

Rela Mazali | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Rela Mazali

What to do when the country I live in totally loses its compass? I have watched Israel present itself as a respectable member of the club of developed countries. It is time for us all to hold it to that claim.