Jewish shopkeepers in Melbourne feel safer

Jewish shopkeepers in Melbourne, Australia are feeling a bit safer today. Here's why.

New Israel Fund continued to fund BDS (boycott divest sanction) movement in 2010

I'm sure you'll all be just shocked to hear that the New Israel Fund continued to support the BDS (boycott divest sanction) movement against Israel even though they promised they would not do so anymore.BDS Leaders Continued to Receive NIF Funding in 2010 Contrary to NIF Denials, Coalition of Women for Peace received $36,503 last year JERUSALEM – In contradiction to multiple public

NIF opposes BDS but only because it doesn't work

Contrary to the picture at left, the New Israel Fund admits in a fascinating note to the anti-Israel Mondoweiss blog that BDS doesn't work. We believe that global BDS is a counter-productive and inflammatory strategy, for the reasons Professor Chazan discussed exhaustively in Australia and elsewhere. We think that both the proponents and antagonists of the global BDS movement exaggerate its

The New York Times slams the anti-boycott law

We are undoubtedly the only country in the World outside the United States to which the New York Times would pay this much attention. In an editorial in Monday's editions, the Times slams the anti-boycott law. The law, approved in a 47-to-38 vote by Parliament, effectively bans any public call for a boycott — economic, cultural or academic — against Israel or its West Bank settlements, making

How to push back against anti-'settlement' BDS

If you, like me, have had it with all the BDS'ers and want to support business ventures in Judea and Samaria, here's how you can do it. There is a site called Dapei Katom (the "Orange Pages") -www.dkatom.co.il -devoted to bringing business to the residents of Yehuda and Shomron [Judea and Samaria. CiJ]. It is a listings of hundreds of businesses of those who live in these areas and provide

Meretz (USA) is with the Golan

Meretz USA, the American support branch for the uber-Leftist Israeli political party that holds three seats in the current Knesset, is advocating boycotting products made in the 'settlements.'They advocate boycotting all of the major wineries in Judea and Samaria; Gat Shomron, Givon, Gush Etzion, HaCormim, Livni, Noah/Hevron Heights, Psagot and Tura Estate.But in a nod to realpolitique, Meretz