In this week’s column at Souciant, I revisit the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in light of recent events in Brooklyn and Peter Beinart’s controversial New York Times op-ed.
Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’
The BDS Phenomenon
Posted in BDS, tagged AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Americans for Peace Now, Anti-Defamation League, apartheid, BDS, Brooklyn, Christians United For Israel, COPJ, Daniel Levy, Holocaust, Israel, J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, Lara Friedman, New York Times, Occupied Territories, Palestine, Park Slope Food Cooperative, Peter beinart, South Africa, The Atlantic, West Bank, Zionist Organization of American on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Restoring Israeli Political Discourse
Posted in Israel, J Street, tagged Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Israel, J Street, Kadima, Mapam, Meretz, Oslo, Palestine, Ratz, Separation Wall, Shaul Mofaz, Shinui, Zahava Gal-On on March 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This week’s Souciant pieceis up. In it, I look at what was perhaps the high point for me of this year’s J Street conference, the words of new Meretz chairwoman, Zehava Gal- On. Meretz has been reduced to a tiny party in the Knesset, but a voice as powerful and clear as Gal-On’s really does have the [...]