The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement is a global campaign launched in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations. Its central goal is to apply non-violent economic, cultural, and political pressure on Israel until it complies with...
Historic Right to Economic Protest Under Threat Boycotts were one of the most popular and effective tools used by American colonists to organize a successful movement for independence. Coordinated economic protests also played a key role in ending apartheid rule in...
Tom Freudenheim is a Jewish American who blogs at www.freudenheim.com. He recently wrote a letter to the Promised Land Museum, which reads as follows: “I’m devoted to the Forward, so when I read the article about you I was puzzled as to why I hadn’t known about you...
In February 2023, the mayor of Barcelona, Spain announced that the city temporarily suspended all institutional ties with Israel. Barcelona equally froze its 25-year-old twinning agreement with the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau wrote a letter to...
Dr. Steven Feldman, curator of the www.PromisedLandMuseum.org, is an academic dermatologist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and one of the foremost experts on patients’ adherence to treatment. He gave an invited lecture to the Dermatology Department at the...
Boycott (2021) is an award-winning documentary by Just Vision that chronicles one of the most consequential U.S. First Amendment battles, during which 35 states passed laws to silence boycotts and nonviolent means of pressuring Israel to end its human rights abuses....
The Jewish Faculty Network is a community of Jewish faculty from universities and colleges across Canada who share a strong commitment to social justice. Read about the network’s principles here, which includes their statements on Israel and Boycott, Divestment and...
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the Jewish American founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The duo came under fire in 2021 when they announced they would halt ice cream sales in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Cohen responded: “If I care...
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is a grassroots, Jewish organization that opposes racism and advocates for peace and justice in Israel-Palestine. IJV supports the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). Get involved here or donate here.
British playwright Caryl Churchill was awarded the European Drama Prize in April 2022 only for the award to be rescinded in October in retaliation for Churchill’s continued support of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. More than 170 actors,...
“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad, Journalist Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in...
“What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish” – Don Pardo, former Director of Mossad Tamir Pardo, the former Director of Mossad from 2011–2016, recently toured the West Bank, after which he delivered a sobering assessment of the mistreatment of Palestinian...
The Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research published a previously suppressed IDF intelligence report dating from 1948. This report contradicts the Israeli narrative about the major factor in the displacement of Israel’s Arab residents during the...
David Sheen is a Toronto-born, Haifa-based investigative journalist, who has worked for dozens of local, regional, and international news outlets, from Haaretz to Electronic Intifada, since 2010. He has focused extensively on the Israeli far-right, including the...
In the Knesset, who is left-wing? Who is right-wing? Are these terms even useful? Investigative journalist, David Sheen, gave a series of lectures for an international audience; he threw out the traditional breakdown of Israeli politics in favor of a new alignment...