Wednesday, July 14, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
National Post: The anti-Israel boycott campaign: a study in failure - '...Given the publicity BDS has received, the program should be on the way to success. And probably it has helped discourage some Israelis and their supporters. But is it working on a more practical level? Surprisingly, the clear answer seems to be No. Jon Haber, a Boston writer who runs the website Divest This! (divest-this. com), recently reported in The Jerusalem Post that -- despite the passage of nearly a decade of BDS activism -- not one college or university has sold even one share of a company the divesters identify as an immoral supporter of Israel. The divesters are good at attracting crowds, writing manifestos, passing motions and getting their opinions onto TV. But they get few results: Boards of universities, corporations and churches all reject divestment proposals...'