After watching the Presbyterians vote down divestment another 3-4 times on Friday (and seeing them boo someone trying to continue to drag it back on the agenda), I decided I could take a couple of days off before wrapping up the PCUSA story. But before that, it’s time to keep a promise I made before the […]
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TIAA CREF and PCUSA: BDS Friends or Foes?
At first, I was annoyed that last week’s TIAA-CREF BDS hoax was going to take time away from things I wanted to say about the upcoming Presbyterian divestment vote. But then it dawned on me that these two stories were intimately connected. Before explaining how, I wanted to first highlight one important aspect of last […]
TIAA CREF BDS Hoax – Social Investing
Having gotten caught with their hand in the cookie jar for the umpteenth time, the boycotters are trying to find some way to make their recent “TIAA-CREF Divestment Victory” hoax not simply seem like yet another example of them being exposed trying to deceive the media and the public. But a fraud so blatant that […]
TIAA CREF BDS Hoax – Motivation
While the world of modern finance can sometimes seem mind-bogglingly complex, the notion of divestment (as used by the BDS “movement” as their own middle name) is remarkably simple to understand. For “divestment” (as the BDSers use the term) is specifically a political act consisting of the decision by an institution (such as a school, church […]
TIAA CREF – Another BDS Hoax?
We interrupt regular broadcasting with news of yet another potential BDS-related hoax. Once more, a hoax tale seems to be centered on TIAA-CREF. If you recall, the boycotters were caught red-handed several years ago trying to pass off a generic business decision by the retirement giant as a response to their request to get the organization […]
PennBDS: The TIAA-CREF Campaign
January 21, 2012 in Academic Boycott, BDS, Israel Boycotts, Israel Divestment, Unions Divestment, University Divestment 1
This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. In some language (probably Yiddish) there exists a word that combines the notions of chutzpah and clownishness. And if one needed an example to illustrate this concept, one need look no further than […]
Trends
Team BDS has developed a bit of a track record with regard to discovering or anticipating economic trends, then claiming credit for business decisions that have absolutely nothing to do with their boycott and divestment efforts (or any other political issue, for that matter). Exhibit A: In 2009, Motorola’s decided to get out of a […]
BDS to World: “We’re Not Losers” – Part 1
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series BDSFail
I’ve recently discovered two examples of the “But we’re not losers!” BDS argument mentioned at the end of my last posting (one from Australia, one from Philadelphia).Both of these make the case that programs promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel are doing marvelously well, with a recent string of victories providing “a strong wind […]
Building on Sand
Commenters to my latest posting brought up extremely good questions about how to defeat a project like BDS that (1) doesn’t stop what it’s doing no matter how many times it is rejected or loses; and (2) insists that its’ success be measured solely by its’ refusal to stop what it’s doing.The current rise of […]
TIAA-CREF 2 JVP: FU!
As some of you may recall, in 2009 Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other associated usual suspects decided they would play their then-familiar divestment hoax card with the huge and well-known academic retirement fund TIAA-CREF. Fortunately, this was just the period when blogs like this one were coming online to double check the BDSers […]
Playing Catchup
Having inflicted a month of Presbyterian politics on my reader recently, I’m committed to not overdoing the whole Olympia Co-op thing (even though I suspect this will be one of those seemingly trivial cases that turn into a nationwide lesson on the perils of allowing the BDS virus into an organization). So what have we […]
UTLA – Take 2
Before analyzing the significance of the UTLA’s success in avoiding the BDS infection, I hope you’ll indulge a quick personal observation. Like most bloggers, I blog about an issue I’m passionate about: the fight against divest-from-Israel campaigns. And that passion is no less (possibly greater – ask my wife) than that of BDS advocates. Yet […]