From BDS Global Digest:Last night on November 5th 2013, the American Public Health Association (APHA) dealt a huge loss to the BDS campaign after it had extensively propagandized the committee members on Israel’s medical practices towards the Palestinians in occupied territories. For months, BDS activists had gone after members on the APHA committee to convince them to vote in favor of their prestigious organization to boycott Israel and it’s medical practices. The committee held its vote last night, and was overwhelmingly voted against boycotting Israel by 74% compared to 3% [sic, should be 26%] voting in favor of boycott. This loss deals a huge blow to the BDS campaign which has been desperate in searching for wins lately in the campaign to boycott Israel.I understand that the BDSers brought out Noam Chomsky to speak and push BDS.
Last year they managed to get Angela Davis to give a keynote speech where she made baldfaced lies about Israel.
It is nice to see that professionals can see through the lies.
(h/t DM)