"bds" is not a word in English.
It is not a correct and usable word in written English.
Any link between the Johansson fiasco and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign would bring Oxfam America into this toxic environment.
The motion, which would be tabled at the National Union of Students conference in Sheffield in April, calls on the student body to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, in protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians and its hindrance of attempts to create a Palestinian state.
I can't think of anything that would be more destructive to a university and its students.The mayor is correct on both scores: the city's heavy-handed interference with academic matters at Brooklyn College is just as misguided as the mission of BDS.
The finance ministry has temporarily shelved a report it said it would publish on the possible consequences of BDS.
More churches are backing BDS.
Boycotting Israeli universities, they note, actually hurts some of the occupation's most trenchant critics (and may thus be unlikely to bother Israeli hawks).Even fans of BDS do not fully agree on the best way forward.
But "boycotts, divestments and sanctions" (known in the activist world as "BDS") do seem to be growing.Pro-Israel lobbyists see this as part of what they call the "Durban strategy", devised by activists at a United Nations anti-racism conference there in 2001, which marked a new high point for Israel-bashing.
Israeli officials respond with a mixture of bravado (Israel can forsake trade with Europe by turning to Asia) and shrill denunciation (delegitimising Israel is tantamount to anti-Semitism).Tellingly, though, Israeli politicians who favour more territorial concessions to Palestinians often cite the threat of BDS.
ON TUESDAY my colleague wrote a post criticising the "Boycott, Divest, Sanction" (BDS) movement on American campuses for making unrealistic demands of Israel that can only lead to more rancour and retard a peaceful solution.
At the centre of these disputes are calls by campus activists for colleges to boycott Israeli businesses, owing to what they characterise as Israel's unjust treatment of Palestinians.The petitions are part of a broader campaign for boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) against Israel in protest against what critics call "Israeli Apartheid".
Most of the motions passed have been non-binding recommendations, or instructions to investigate the practicalities of BDS.
