Can (Israeli) academic boycotts be justified?

Nussbaum, Martha C.; Abed, Mohamed M.

doi:10.1111/j.1744-540x.2008.00493.x

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“…The campaign was formally established in 2005, with the goal of applying an economically and culturally focused form of pressure on Israel as a method of objecting to Israel’s policies vis-à-vis the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in which Israel clearly has the upper conventional-power hand. Those who support BDS are motivated by values such as freedom, justice, and equality, and note that BDS is a response to accumulated failures of traditional international intervention and peace-making as a means of convincing Israel to respect human rights and end its occupation of Palestinian Territories (Ananth, 2013; Chomsky, 2014; Hallward and Shaver, 2012; Nussbaum and Abed, 2008). Those who oppose BDS highlight that the campaign defends Palestinian rights but annuls Israeli rights and is equivalent to a form of anti-Semitism provoked to delegitimize the state of Israel (Cohen and Avraham, 2009; Ghabra and Hasian Jr, 2018; Hallward and Shaver, 2012; Nussbaum and Abed, 2008).…”

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Rally ’round the flag revised: External soft threats and media coverage

Hatuel-Radoshitzky¹,

Yarchi

2020

Media, War & Conflict

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This article addresses media coverage of soft-power threats, which are typical in modern wars between state and non-state actors. In doing so, the authors depart from the vast literature on the ‘rally ’round the flag’ phenomenon coined in relation to conventional military threats. They base their case study on the interplay between Israel and the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) civil society movement that utilizes soft-power tactics with the aim of isolating Israel internationally. To assess the way the Israeli media relate to BDS, determine the absence or existence of a ‘rally ’round the flag’ phenomenon vis-à-vis BDS, and assess coverage characteristics, the authors conducted a qualitative and quantitative analysis of ( N = 209) articles covering BDS in the Israeli media over the course of three years (2015−2018). Their findings suggest that coverage of the soft threat follows similar patterns to those coined on conventional military threats.

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