...Galit Eilat This article surveys recent developments in the BDS movement and its call for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. It analyzes the policy of the cultural boycott in comparison with other forms of boycott as well its effectiveness in different circumstances. The most effective...

...Lori Allen This essay analyzes some key moments of transnational Palestinian solidarity politics as a basis for considering the possibilities for challenging the status quo ignited by the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Throughout modern Palestinian history, political efforts...

... privileged group. Not being able to endorse the boycott from the outside, Jewish Israelis can—and should—participate in it; their participation turns the BDS movement's call into a campaign to redefine citizenship as co-citizenship based on the right not to be perpetrator. © 2015 Duke University Press...

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... particular, the branding of the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement as “anti-Semitic” has led to various forms of censorship on campuses across the country. In May 2017, for example, Native American scholar N. Bruce Duthu withdrew from his appointment as dean of the faculty after...

... Barghouti (a cofounder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions [BDS] movement), invited to forego a more standard talk in order to focus on reac- tions to BDS. We wanted to better understand responses to that controversial strategy and reimagine its typically partisan and adversarial receptions...

... Cultural Boycott of Israel. The British Association of University Teachers’ initial vote of support for the boycott was repealed after a massive campaign of pressure orchestrated Away from Home  777 primarily from the United States. The...

... defense of Israeli academics now. 748  Bruce Robbins (No mention is made of the many Israelis whom I’ve heard say, “Please, boycott me The policy of the American Association of University Profes- sors, an admirable organization that does deeply valuable work in defense of academic freedom, has...

... reorganization of uptake patterns seemed to prove surprisingly e­ective was on February 26, 2015, when our research cluster invited Omar Barghouti, the cofounder of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, to speak on its “origins, motives, successes,” and ethical foundations. Barghouti, as...

... around the world than the occupa- tion, which invoke no substantial call for boycott. BDS is a strategy. It is a way to force Israel to accept Palestinian demands, where attempts to con- vince Jewish Israelis to change their own policies appear useless (that is why it is directed at Israeli...

... carries into debates over whether (and when) to form a left political party, and whether to call for a boycott or a spoiled ballot in the 2004 national elec- tions. In addition, there remain traditional South African problems with sectarianism among small political parties and factions. Another major...

... in that state against white supremacy and xenophobia, remarked that he felt compelled to call for a national boycott of this parched desert of human rights because anti-immigrant sentiments were so deeply entrenched among Euro-Americans there that the situation demanded outside lever...

... munities Summers’s examples of supposedly anti-Semitic activities on university campuses include the call for an academic boycott of Israel (initiated by a letter...

... empires, although Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955 considered himself a par- ticipant in the vast anticolonial movement: “It [the Montgomery boycott] is part of a worldwide movement. Look at just about any place in the world and the exploited people are rising against their exploiters. This seems to be...

... of protest within the Web fan community, prompting a boycott of Fan- dom.com and the establishment of new Web site, Fandomfightsback.com. Its home page loudly proclaims, ‘‘Fandom is for Fans. Not for Sale Two issues are at...

... Palestinians and see their own struggles in the mirror of their cause. The BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) movement is a perfect case in point where the continued struggles of Pales- tinians for their national liberation and self-determination thoroughly reso- nate with the most progressive social...

... move that now routinely ‹nds traction with university administrators and other guardians of aca- demic “civility.” It is worth remarking that the erosion of political norms that mani- fests so palpably in the context of campus debates on Palestinian rights or BDS (boycott, divestment...

... in the Wheeler occupation and who had recently seen union locals undertake actions—including a boycott of commencement—to block the extended suspensions such students faced for having occupied a building. Having realized, through practice, the interests they shared with campus...