Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
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Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement

20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns

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Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement

20 Years of Responding to Anti-Israel Campaigns

About this book

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

The State of Israel has faced many threats, most of them military, since it was established in 1948, but the threat posed by the NGO forum at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in August 2001 was different. The forum unleashed the "new" antisemitism which targeted the State of Israel, as well as a non-violent, civil society-based campaign based on the South African anti-apartheid campaign of the 1980s – which was to form the basis of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement directed at the State of Israel.

Featuring case studies from the United States, Great Britain, Israel, and South Africa, each chapter of this wide-ranging volume discusses examples of opposition to the divisive BDS campaign and the proposed academic boycott of Israel over the last two decades, including the fight for formal recognition of the "new" antisemitism by governments and international bodies and the use of a variety of legal measures. The rise of antisemitism within academia and wider society is also examined.

This book will be vital reading for students, scholars, and activists with an interest in social movements, Israel, and Middle East politics and history.

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Yes, you can access Challenging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement by Ronnie Fraser, Lola Fraser, Ronnie Fraser,Lola Fraser in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Global Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Endorsements Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures and Tables
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Durban: A Different Attack on Israel and the Jewish People and Its Consequences
  11. 3 Lessons from Durban: A Personal Testimony
  12. 4 The Circumstances and Reasons Surrounding the Adoption and Recognition of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
  13. 5 The South African Variant: Anti-BDS Politics on Campuses of the Beloved Country
  14. 6 The Central Role of the NGO Network in Promoting the BDS Movement
  15. 7 The Anti-Israel Movement on the US Campus
  16. 8 BDS: How a Crusade Against Israel Became a Pre-Occupation of the Academy
  17. 9 Convergences and Divergences between Secular and Religious Anti-Zionism in the United States
  18. 10 The Mutual Weaponisation of BDS: A Perspective from Israel
  19. 11 Online BDS and Antisemitic Hate
  20. 12 Why BDS Is Destined to Fail
  21. Abbreviations
  22. Contributors
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index