In case you haven’t visited there yet, I recommend you stop by and bookmark the new BDS Global Digest site which is doing a job this site’s never been able to do adequately: providing ongoing reports of BDS and BDS-related stories in the news. Two of their stories seem to point to the Israeli economy […]
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I’ll Be There!
Well now they’ve gone and done it. In their excesses and their deception, in their over-reach and harassment, in their hectoring and their lies, the forces of BDS have summoned from the pages of history and the scrolls of our heritage, the one, the only… Captain Israel! May the diety have mercy on them.
Courage
Now and then (usually in response to comments) I’ve posed the question: what if the world is NOT as the BDSers perceive it? What if there’s even a one-percent chance that the suffering in the region is NOT fueled entirely by Israeli villainy directed at pristinely innocent Palestinians (with no role played by the rest […]
War and Peace
It once seemed obvious that the significance of BDS and related battles always take a back seat to events on the ground in the Middle East. After all, whenever violence breaks out in the region (whether in Lebanon, Gaza, or in boats off the Gaza coast), that tends to drive the agendas of Israel’s detractors […]
BDS Video
I guess I’m a late-comer to pointing out this video (thanks to everyone who sent me a link): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnpilMYsR0I
Olympia Snowed – Washington Co-op Boycott
BDS projects tend to come in waves or fads. In the early 90s, campus petitions were all the rage, then Mainline Protestant churches were targeted followed by student governments and – most recently – aging rockers and food co-ops. Part of the reason behind this ever-changing list is the fact that BDS is a relatively […]