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...

Brava to Alicia Keys, the hugely popular, 14-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, for standing up for truth and cultural freedom in refusing to join the insidious campaign to delegitimize Israel. Keys is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on July 4. In booking the venue, she drew the attention of a leading figure in a movement that holds the Jewish state guilty of victimizing the...

This year's National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference took place at Bethlehem University where we witnessed a strong dose of Palestinian realism when a dispute occurred between the Palestinian Minister of Economy Jawad Al-Naji, and BDS participant, Nizar Banat, resulting in Al-Naji storming out of the room. The argument was triggered when Banat questioned Mahmoud Abbas and his...

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel found itself a friend in major American newspaper USA Today recently, when a press release about its efforts to have Alicia Keys cancel her upcoming show in Israel appeared almost verbatim in an article on the newspaper's website. The American Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg first tweeted about the disturbing similarities Thursday,...