BERLIN – A German NGO started a grassroots online petition last week to urge Chancellor Angela Merkel not to move forward with a labeling system for products originating in the West Bank because of the adverse consequences it would have on Israel. The pro-Israel German Media Watch organization started the petition, titled "Call against the labeling of Israeli merchandise," with the...

LONDON – The British capital will host this week a major international academic conference looking at the issue of boycotts, with a focus on the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel. The three-day conference will take place at University of London's Birkbeck College, and is being hosted by the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck, in conjunction with...

In a new report presented to members of the European Parliament, NGO Monitor details the damaging impact of "highly secretive EU funding for radical political advocacy NGOs."   According to NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel boycotts and violent demonstrations, which "undermine the EU's efforts to secure peace in the Middle East."...

    Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has lately garnered more attention for her unhinged political views than for her writing. She has compared Fidel Castro to the Dalai Lama. She refused to allow her book "The Color Purple" to be translated into Hebrew. But perhaps nothing was more off-base—at least morally speaking—than the open letter Ms. Walker wrote...

In a poll taken by the Huffington Post UK, a staggering 79 percent of readers believed that the world's most famous living physicist, Stephen Hawking, was right to boycott Israel. His decision has set off a wave of arguments both for and against boycotting the Jewish state around the world. In truth, the argument for a boycott is not a new one; the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)...