This week’s Highlight is Cary Nelson’s comprehensive critique of the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) report on Israel, which details an assault on Israel’s legitimacy, policies, and right to exist, without accepting any responsibility to distribute contrary views or evidence. Nelson suggests that rather than indulging the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in its relentless hostility toward and effort to isolate Israel and Israelis, MLA members should be encouraged to promote initiatives to improve the situation for Israelis and Palestinians.

Our image of the week is an Orthodox Jew lighting candles on the sixth night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in the Nachla’ot neighbourhood in Jerusalem, 26 December 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush.

Our voice of the week is Ambassador Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, speaking on UNSC Resolution 2334 and how it negatively contributes to the peace process, 02 January 2017.

The BDS Disinformation Campaign in the Modern Language Association

by Cary Nelson