In the West Bank, the EU Creates Its Own Facts on the Ground
And demands compensation when Israel tries to enforce the law.
October 24, 2017
Even the European Left Rejects BDS
A win for Israel activists.
This month, an anti-BDS resolution—sponsored by a far-left student group—was adopted by the Austrian national student union; the Green party of Bavaria passed a similar resolution, specifically connecting BDS with anti-Semitism; the Left party in another German state rejected a pro-BDS motion. If the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the Jewish state can’t survive in such fertile ground, writes Evelyn Gordon, it’s unlikely to succeed at all. She explains how the movement has failed:
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Even the European Left Rejects BDS
A win for Israel activists.
Is Halakhah a System of Laws, or More Like a Language?
How rabbis lead from behind.
The Many Lives of an Early Work of Jewish Mysticism
The Book of Creation.
Thousands of Documents Rescued from the Nazis Resurface in a Church Basement
The Nazi center for Jewish research and the paper brigade.