The anti-Israel boycott campaign: a study in failure
Shahid Alam, writing this week in a Cairo magazine, Al-Ahram, declared that "slowly but steadily, the Western people are throwing their support behind the campaign to divest from, boycott and impose sanctions on Israel." It certainly seems that way. I've read often, over many years, about students demanding that their universities sell whatever stocks they own in Israeli companies and in corporations supporting the defence of Israel. I've read, too, about boycotts of Israeli products and attempts to get churches and corporations to sell Israel-connected stocks.
In Canada, a union proposed that Israeli professors not be allowed to lecture here. And of course, everyone knows that Elvis Costello recently deprived Israelis of the two performances he was scheduled to give in Israel, on grounds of "conscience."
Given the publicity BDS has received, the program should be on the way to success. And...
Dr. Alan Cairns | 5/18/2009
