Israel’s new Asian allies

Israel’s new Asian allies

Jonathan Cook on February 24, 2015 | http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/israels-asian-allies?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=1489b8614a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-1489b8614a-398529325

It was another difficult week for Israel.
In Britain, 700 artists, including many household names, pledged a cultural boycott of Israel, and a leader of the Board of Deputies, the representative body of UK Jews, quit, saying he could no longer abide by its ban on criticising Israel.
Across the Atlantic, the student body of one of the most prestigious US universities, Stanford, voted to withdraw investments from companies implicated in Israel’s occupation, giving a significant boost to the growing international boycott (BDS) movement.
Meanwhile, a CNN poll found that two-thirds of Americans, and three-quarters of those under 50, believed the US foreign policy should be neutral between Israel and Palestine.
This drip-drip of bad news, as American and European popular opinion shifts against Israel, is gradually changing the west’s political culture and forcing Israel to rethink its historic alliances.http://mondoweiss.net/2015/02/hundreds-thousands-palestinians?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=1489b8614a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-1489b8614a-398529325