Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (Bds) Movement - 20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns

Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement focuses on the efforts to oppose antisemitism, the academic boycott, and the BDS movement.

List of contents

1 Introduction 2 Durban: A Different Attack on Israel and the Jewish People and its Consequences 3 Lessons from Durban: A Personal Testimony 4 The Circumstances and Reasons Surrounding the Adoption and Recognition of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism 5 The South African Variant: Anti-BDS Politics on Campuses of the Beloved Country 6 The Central Role of the NGO Network in Promoting the BDS Movement 7 The Anti-Israel Movement on the US Campus 8 BDS: How a Crusade Against Israel Became a Pre-Occupation of the Academy 9 Convergences and Divergences between Secular and Religious Anti-Zionism in the United States 10 The Mutual Weaponisation of BDS: A Perspective from Israel 11 Online BDS and Antisemitic Hate 12 Why BDS is Destined to Fail

About the author

Ronnie Fraser is Director of the Academic Friends of Israel which he founded with his wife, Lola, in 2003. Together they have campaigned against the academic boycott of Israel and antisemitism on campus. He is a retired college lecturer and author of British Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Israel’s Histadrut (2022).
Lola Fraser is a retired teacher with a degree in history and sociology. She co-founded the Academic Friends of Israel with her husband Ronnie and is currently a researcher for the history website British Jews in the First World War, We Were There Too (https://www.jewsfww.uk).

Summary

Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement focuses on the efforts to oppose antisemitism, the academic boycott, and the BDS movement.

Product details

• Authors: Ronnie (Independent Scholar Fraser
• Assisted by: Lola Fraser (Editor), Ronnie Fraser (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2023
• EAN: 9781032218809
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221880-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Jewish Studies, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Social groups: religious groups and communities