The BDS Movement Overreaches, Now Faces A Lawsuit

Forbes ^ | May 4, 2016 | George Leef

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The Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement opposes Israeli policy toward the Palestinians and maintains that Israeli policy can be pressured to change through a combination of boycotts, divestment of assets, and other sanctions. People should be entirely free to make and oppose those arguments.

What people should not, however, be free to do is to dragoon non-profit scholarly associations into their political battles against Israel (or anything else for that matter). But that is just what has occurred with the stance taken by the American Studies Association in favor of boycotting Israeli universities.

Back in 2013, the association’s National Council passed a resolution calling for the boycott.

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The BDS movement being a foreign boycott, they proudly proclaim their origins in "palestine", not approved by the US, thus cooperation illegal in the US, I'm surprised there have been no successful legal actions. Wouldn't expect it from the Obama State or Justice Dept, maybe Trump will enforce the law. The defence, of course, could argue that it's a palestinian boycott, there being no such state, it's not really a foreign boycott.