December 8, 2015
The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) has condemned the vote by the U.S National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. The resolution was approved, at the organization’s annual conference by an 88.4 percent margin, with 653 members voting for it and just 86 members against it.
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman of the ADC, issued the following statement:
“Once again, hatred and hypocrisy have triumphed over truth and fairness. It beggars belief that the NWSA has chosen to affiliate itself with a pernicious campaign whose entire purpose is to delegitimize and isolate Israel economically and politically through punitive and morally vacuous measures. The NWSA, which is boycotting no other country, should have applauded Israel, the only democratic nation in the Middle-east that has had a female Prime Minister, a woman Chief Justice, a female university president, a female speaker of the Knesset and numerous business-women who are captains of industry. This malicious and politically charged resolution, betrays the women who have died as a result of stoning and ‘honour killings’ in the West Bank, Gaza and in other Arab countries, and all the women who have been forcibly married and who have suffered physical mutilation around the world. Clearly, the NWSA does not care about the oppression, sexual violence and subjugation of women that are taking place inside the societies of some of Israel’s neighbours. The NWSA also overlooked more than 15,000 rockets that have been launched at Israel by Hamas since 2005, and the 20 Israelis that in the past few months have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists using knives, guns and cars. By promoting a one-sided, distorted view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and embracing a discriminatory approach, the NWSA is spreading hatred and harming the cause of peace in the region.”
For more information, please contact Dr Dvir Abramovich on, 03 9272-5677