BDS activity seems to have heated up in the UK and Ireland over the last week. By "heat up," I mean that a bunch of wankers decided that the best way to demonstrate revolutionary consciousness was to stand up during a performance of the Jerusalem String Quartet and shout fifty year old slogans. I had something to say about the issue in the UK Jewish press which can be found here.

What's going on in Ireland is a bit more disturbing in that it involves an actual real live institution (the Irish trade union movement) continuing down the path of an anti-Israel boycott. The BDS infection is pretty advanced with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, but hopefully not terminal. Some thoughts on that subject can be found here.