Melanie Phillips: The point about the attack by Ben & Jerry’s, as with all boycotts of Israel, is that the main issue is not the boycott. It’s the thinking behind it.
Jonathan S. Tobin: The ice-cream company bowed to pressure to boycott Jerusalem and the West Bank. Still, their latest attempt at political virtue-signaling won’t advance peace, help Palestinians or silence critics.
Reports on the Internet claimed that popular supermarket chain Aldi had stopped selling goods produced in Israel settlements. The company has denied that this is the case.
Israel has been hit with a huge blow in the last 24 hours, with the EU issuing a directive banning its 28 members from providing funding to areas outside Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
The decision by the European Union (EU) to boycott Jewish organisations and institutions based in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will bring much joy to the Arab world's on-going vicious hate campaign of denigration and demonisation of the Jewish State.
The decision by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking to not attend the Presidential Conference organised by Israel's President -Shimon Peres has aroused dismay by his Israeli hosts and applause from the Palestinian academic community.
