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A Very Hampshire Anniversary [Jon]

It almost escaped my notice that Feb 7 was the anniversary of the great Hampshire Divestment Hoax, that is until I discovered this stunningly self-aggrandizing announcement by the jesters who started it all: Hamshire's Students for Justice in Palestine (HSJP). So I said to myself:"Self, how best to mark this important date?" Edit

Posted on February 8, 2010 6:42 AM

BDS Hits an Iceberg [Jon]

The folks who brought us the attempted Toronto Film Festival boycott have managed to merge both fraud and failure in what is looking like the most hilarious BDS hoax yet. Edit

Posted on February 6, 2010 3:14 PM

Anti-Divestment Sanity in the Academy

It's not every day we get to highlight something good coming from the colleges out in Western Massachusetts, but there is a professor out there fighting the good fight, and he has a series of posts on the recent anti-Israel... Edit

Posted on November 28, 2009 11:53 AM

Fighting the Good Fight

History is replete with tales of small armies defeating much larger ones. In fact, what is Jewish and Israeli history if not a tale of winning out over overwhelming odds? Edit

Posted on November 24, 2009 5:22 PM

BDS - A Generation of Gnats

With zero colleges choosing to divest after all that time (and Hampshire providing an abject lesson to college administrators nationwide on what can happen if you give the BDS crowd the time of day), with churches running from their program, with "right wing" groups like J Street abandoning their squalid little project, how would they apply their innovative imaginations into spinning excrement into gold? Edit

Posted on November 23, 2009 9:54 PM

BDS: Et tu J-Street?

Ever aware of the latest political barometric pressure readings, J Street understands that BDS is a big, fat loser, and rather than go down with the ship supporting a strategy that is not only loathsome but so bereft of victories that it has to invent some, they've taken the safe route of placing divestment beyond the pale. Edit

Posted on November 20, 2009 4:40 PM

Bonding with BDS

There is a possibility that BDS conferences like the one at Hampshire this weekend are ends in themselves. Under this interpretation, the purpose of these events is to make the participants feel like they are all part of a virtuous, all-seeing vanguard that understands the world in ways the masses who overwhelmingly support Israel and reject BDS do not. Edit

Posted on November 19, 2009 5:41 PM

Muzzlewatch Gets Miffed

Normally, the wannabe censors of Muzzlewatch simply hurl their accusations of censorship at those who have the temerity to use their own free speech rights to criticize the political positions of Jewish Voice for Peace. But in this case, their rage rises to the highest pitch I've ever seen because another organization that does not share JVP's opinions refuses to write them checks. Edit

Posted on November 18, 2009 6:14 PM

BDS Strategy: Kick Your Roommate

If you can't get your own college to divest (or can't convince people of your Hampshire divestment hoax), if you can't name any other college even thinking about divestment, if you can't point to any other institution (be it churches or cities) where divestment has less to show for itself than it did four years ago, well you can always kick your roommate around to make yourself feel better. Edit

Posted on November 17, 2009 7:35 AM

On My Honor

Having been a Boy Scout, I know full well the institutions weaknesses, flaws and limitations, just as I am well aware of all of the many things that make Israel a hugely imperfect society. And yet, compare an organization that has taught generations of boys from around the world to link arms rather than swing fists, or a country that has turned Jews from a hundred lands into a nation, with the sour emptiness that underlies the BDS "movement." Edit

Posted on November 16, 2009 5:15 PM

Hampshire SJP Planning Meeting - Continued

Now we can't start next month's meeting just pretending that we've won on colleges that have rejected us, or shitting on the churches we were celebrating just two years ago. We've got to have some real victory to boast about, or everything will think we're a bunch of ineffectual losers holding celebratory meetings as a substitute for real wins. Edit

Posted on November 14, 2009 7:53 AM

Hampshire BDS Planning Meeting - Exclusive Transcript

Who gets to decide the school's investment policies, the administration and investment managers, or us? Of course they're going to use the excuse that we're just a bunch of undergraduates who don't speak on behalf of the college. But do any of them even know how to Tweet? Edit

Posted on November 13, 2009 6:37 PM

Buy-cott, Invest, Celebrate!

Following the BDS rulebook I guess I can claim that support for Israel (as demonstrated by investment levels) has outstripped hostility towards the Jewish state (as demonstrated by divestment "success" - even if only imagined) by a factor of 500,000% Edit

Posted on November 12, 2009 5:19 PM

From Divest This! - TUC or Oy Britannia!

It's interesting that declining organization (such as the shrinking and aging Mainline Protestant churches or the struggling union movement in the UK) seem to be the ones that grasp at the Middle East conflict as a way to make themselves seem internationally relevant. Edit

Posted on September 25, 2009 6:35 AM

The Latest BDS Hoax: TIAA-CREF

More comedy gold from the boycott, divestment and sanctions aptly-named "movement." Edit

Posted on September 13, 2009 9:56 AM

Yurp and the Big Mo

Given the unending string of defeats divestment has faced in schools, unions, municipalities and now churches (to a point where they have to rely on obscure artists choosing to not attend little-known arts festivals alongside Israelis as their latest "win"), doesn't that say something about these institutions' positive attitudes towards Israel (or at least their negative attitudes towards seeing it punished economically, just because the BDS crowd says it must). Edit

Posted on September 3, 2009 12:45 PM

Wrestling with Cows

Into this fragile ecosystem step the sirens of divestment. For them, the church or school or town or union is not a living thing that needs to be supported and nurtured. For they only see the reputation these organizations have earned due to decades or centuries of contributions of people like those at the 4H meeting last night. If only that reputation can be exploited, the BDSers think, then it won't just be us decrying Israel as an "Apartheid State," it will be the voice of the Presbyterian Church or Hampshire College or some other valuable "brand." Edit

Posted on June 24, 2009 5:10 PM

Belly of the Bust

If the Alpha and Omega of your existence is your own unquestionable virtue, what other response can there be to the observation that divestment - like so many preceding anti-Israel propaganda efforts - has only helped to dramatically increase the amount of misery in the world, mostly among the very Palestinians who they claim as their lives' moral loadstone. Edit

Posted on May 24, 2009 10:16 PM

Eternal Vigilance

The greatest threat facing BDS programs is not the all-powerful-Israeli-lobby (booga, booga, booga), but the movement's own excesses and reputation of divestment as a political loser. Edit

Posted on April 22, 2009 3:04 AM

Which Came First, the Rooster or the Sunrise?

With Motorola, we see yet again a divestment movement that, unlike five years ago, has to continually create phantom victories to make up for the fact that they are so lacking in real ones. Edit

Posted on April 8, 2009 6:18 AM

Thuggery

[Please welcome our newest poster and anti-divestment and pro-Israel powerhouse, Jon Haber. He'll be contributing from time to time.] In a new blog (DivestThis), I've tried to document the struggles those calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) directed against... Edit

Posted on April 2, 2009 7:38 PM

Students for Justice in Palestine Lie? Big Surprise.

The Hampshire College administration is at pains to explain that, in spite of what Students for Justice in Palestine has been trying to claim, they have not divested from Israel (or 'occupation')-related investments: Ralph Hexter and Sigmund Roos: An open... Edit

Posted on February 20, 2009 3:01 PM

Alan Dershowitz: Hampshire Divests from Israel, So Contributors Should Divest from Hampshire

Alan Dershowitz: Hampshire Divests from Israel, So Contributors Should Divest from Hampshire... Edit

Posted on February 16, 2009 12:06 PM

Gaza on Boylston: Massive Pro-Hamas Rally in Boston

Yesterday, Saturday (planned so in part to prevent religious Jews from being able to counter-protest), was a large Pro-Hamas demonstration at Copley Square Boston. The announcement circulated on a number of lists (Facebook page here), including distribution by the Muslim... Edit

Posted on January 4, 2009 11:31 AM