Ripping BDS in Australia

Here's a great editorial from the Australian condemning the tactics of BDS protesters against Max Brenner Chocolates in Melbourne. The BDS movement has every right to express its point of view but for any student of 20th-century history there is something deeply offensive about targeting a Jewish-owned business. Last month's protests outside the Melbourne Max Brenner store led to 19 arrests.

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