Pinkwashing
INTRODUCTION WHEN USED IN RELATION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, the word “pinkwashing” refers to Israel’s putatively dishonest abuse of its sterling record on LGBT human rights to conceal or “whitewash” its struggles with the Palestinians. Alleged to constitute an invidious “cover up”, pinkwashing actually represents a term of art deployed to deceive and fabricate fallacious arguments […]
Israel Bars BDS Activists From Entering The Country
Israel published a list of activist organizations whose members will be barred from entering the country due to their support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, on Sunday. The so-called “BDS blacklist” was released by the Strategic Affairs Ministry under Gilad Erdan, member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing party, Likud. The ministry plans…
Democratic Socialists of America passed BDS motion at convention
‘Largest socialist organization in US’ gets 90% approval by 697 delegates from 49 states for anti-Israel vote By JTA Illustrative: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America marching at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York, September 2011. (CC BY David Shankbone, Wikimedia Commons /File) The Democratic Socialists of America voted to endorse a […]
BDS activists defy US moves to curb Palestine advocacy
Washington, DC – In the United States, far away from Israel, there is a related storm a-brewing. In recent months, state legislatures have been passing bills that target supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) that seeks to pressure Israel into ending its occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories, and to grant its […]
Israel and the BDS debate: two academics respectfully agree to differ
From Australia, we watch Israel at a great distance, safe in the knowledge that the regular and horrific levels of violence in the region are far from our shores. But we still find ourselves, like most of the world, asking: what can we do? One response is the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which […]