‘BDS – it’s complicated’: Israeli, Jewish, and others’ views on the boycott of Israel

Chaitin, Julia; Steinberg, Shoshana; Steinberg, Sharon

doi:10.1080/13642987.2017.1298093

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“…Studies have yet to empirically assess opinions of homeland Jews on BDS alone. A small study of a highly educated sample by Julia Chaitin, Shoshana Steinberg, and Sharon Steinberg (2017) found that homeland Jews were least likely to agree with BDS while Western Jews were more likely. According to the 2020-2021 INSS (Institute for National Security) national security index, only 7 percent of Israelis believe that international isolation, most associated with the goals of BDS, is the most significant threat to the state.…”

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“…In some ways these studies tangentially speak to attitudes toward, or engagement with, the BDS movement, but little work has been done on the consequences of the divergence between Israeli and American Jewish attitudes and actions about BDS for Israeli policy making. 1 Studies on Jewish attitudes related to BDS tend to focus on single, campus-related campaigns of divestment and Jewish students' response to them (Ben Hagai and Zurbriggen 2017;Chaitin et al 2017;Cohen and Avraham 2018).…”

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Diasporas as Audiences of Securitization

Olesker¹

2022

Israel Studies Review

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This study conceptually develops and analytically examines the role and function of diasporas as audiences in the securitization process by examining the American Jewish Diaspora in Israel's securitization of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). It argues that Israel's use of antisemitism as a metanarrative for the securitization of the BDS movement incorporates diasporic Jews as internal audiences in the securitization process. Audiences, however, are not monolithic. While homeland Jews, including both elites and the public, tend to support Israel's securitization process, American Jews are split; the elite support the process but public opinion is far less sympathetic to Israeli constructions of BDS as a threat. The disparity between audiences’ reactions weakens the support for Israel's counter-BDS policies and undermines its securitization process.

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Diasporas as Audiences of Securitization

Olesker¹

2022

Israel Studies Review

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“…In Israel, the movement enjoys minimal support from those with access to decision-making positions and is also poorly regarded by public opinion (Chaitin et al 2017), making both insider policy influence and outsider public pressure campaigns challenging to achieve. In these circumstances, flexible adaptation might entail looking beyond the domestic setting.…”

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A Game of Whac-A-Mole

Lutz¹

2022

Israel Studies Review

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This article focuses on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement's utilization of ‘fluidity,’ conceptualized as the ability to adapt campaign tactics to multiple arenas and political opportunity structures simultaneously. Framing BDS as both a social movement and a transnational advocacy network, it demonstrates the movement's fluidity in the context of three campaigns: the campaign at the 65th FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) congress in 2015, which illustrates an ‘outsider’ strategy aimed at intergovernmental institutions; the 2014 Olive Declaration of municipalities endorsing BDS, which illustrates how local ‘insider’ campaigns can combine to create a translocal campaign; and the ‘Ferguson-Gaza moment’ in 2014, which illustrates how movements can engage at the level of civil society and embed themselves in the broader global justice movement.

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‘I’m not your toy’: rejecting a tourism boycott

Shepherd

2021

Tourism Recreation Research

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‘BDS – it’s complicated’: Israeli, Jewish, and others’ views on the boycott of Israel

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Diasporas as Audiences of Securitization

Diasporas as Audiences of Securitization

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‘I’m not your toy’: rejecting a tourism boycott

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