List of opponents of the BDS movement information

List of people who oppose the BDS movement include those who have either voiced opposition to the BDS movement, accused it of antisemitism, or spoken out against comprehensive boycotts against Israel. It does not include people who have been unwilling to commit to a boycott of Israel, only those actively opposing it.

Name	Occupation	Country	Year	Source
Brian A. Cunningham	Politician	United States	2022	^[1]
Nas Daily	YouTuber	Israel	?
Robert Kraft	Owner of New England Patriots	United States	?
Joe Biden	President	United States	2020	^[2]
Helen Mirren	Actor	England	2016	^[3]
Arthur Orr	Politician	United States	2016	^[4]
Boris Johnson	Prime Minister	United Kingdom	2019	^[5]
Barack Obama	President	United States	2012	^[6]
Theresa May	Prime Minister	United Kingdom	2018	^[7]
Aziz Maraka	Singer	Jordan	2020	^[8]
Sari Nusseibeh	Professor of Philosophy	Palestine	2014	^[9]
Reuven Rivlin	President	Israel	2016	^[10]
José María Aznar	Prime Minister	Spain	2015	^[11]
Jan Bartošek	Politician	Czech Republic	2019	^[12]
David Cameron	Prime Minister	United Kingdom	2014	^[13]
Gilad Erdan	Strategic Affairs Minister	Israel		^[14]
Steve McCabe	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	2021	^[15]
Israel Katz	Intelligence Minister	Israel		^[16]
Rachel Riley	Television presenter and mathematician	United Kingdom		^[17]
Sharon Osbourne	Television personality	United Kingdom		^[17]
Thom Yorke	Singer	United Kingdom	2017	^[18]
Abraham Foxman	Lawyer	United States	2013	^[19]
Ritchie Torres	Politician	United States	2020	^[20]
Adam Milstein	Real-estate investor, lobbyist and philanthropist	United States	2016	^[21]
Yishai Fleisher	Settler and spokesperson	Israel	?	^[22]
Hillary Clinton	Politician	United States	2015	^[23]
Justin Trudeau	Prime Minister	Canada	2019	^[24]
Alan Dershowitz	Lawyer	United States	2013	^[25]
Cary Nelson	English professor	United States	2018	^[26]
Deborah Lipstadt	Holocaust historian	United States	2019	^[27]
Judea Pearl	Academic	United States	2018	^[28]
Mordechai Kedar	Politician	Israel	?	^[29]
Ed Asner	Actor	United States	2017	^[30]
Stephen Fry	Actor	United Kingdom	2019	^[17]
Yossi Beilin	Politician and scholar	Israel	?	^[31]
J. K. Rowling	Writer	United Kingdom	?	^[32]
Charles Krauthammer	Pundit	United States	2014	^[33]
Lisa Nandy	Politician	United Kingdom	2021	^[34]
Nick Cave	Singer and author	Australia	2017	^[35]
John Lydon	Singer	United Kingdom	2010	^[36]
Gene Simmons	Musician	United States	2011	^[37]
Paul McCartney	Singer and musician	United Kingdom	2008	^[38]
John Lewis	Politician and civil rights leader	United States	2019
Jamaal Bowman	Politician	United States	2021
John Fetterman	Politician	United States	2023
Eric Adams	Politician	United States	2022

^ "NY lawmaker withdraws endorsement from congressional candidate who announced support for BDS". 12 July 2022.
^ Cite error: The named reference jo-bi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Helen Mirren criticises Israel boycotters". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2016-06-24. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
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^ Hovav, Ofir. "This Jordanian singer doesn't ...." Haaretz. 19 January 2020. 13 August 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference sa-nu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference ru-ri was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "BDS movement seeks to empty Israel of Jews, former Spanish PM says", Haim Isserovitz, 20 June 2015, The Jerusalem Post.
^ Ahren, Raphael. "Czech lawmakers pass resolution condemning BDS movement". The Times of Israel.
^ Wintour, Patrick (2014-03-12). "David Cameron says he would oppose boycott of Israel in speech to Knesset". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
^ Benzaquen, Itamar (14 January 2020). "Israeli ministry paying for anti-BDS propaganda in major news outlets". +972 Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2021. The Strategic Affairs Ministry, headed by Likud minister Gilad Erdan, has for years been spearheading an international campaign to counter what it sees as "de-legitimization" of the State of Israel. This project has, in large part, involved providing funds and handing down directives to non-governmental organizations and journalists in order to enlist them in the fight against BDS.
^ Chappell, Elliot (27 September 2021). "Labour conference passes Young Labour Israel and Palestine motion". LabourList.
^ Mairav Zonszein, 'In Israel, BDS is winning,'+972 magazine 28 March 2016.
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^ Radiohead perform in Israel despite opposition from activists The Guardian. 19 July 2017.
^ Foxman, Abraham. "An Open Letter on Academic Freedom and University Responsibility". ADL. 2 June 2013.
^ "'Pro-Israel progressive' Ritchie Torres won't join AOC's squad due to BDS stance". Haaretz.
^ "IAC head Milstein urges: Boycott the boycotters". The Jerusalem Post. May 22, 2016.
^ "Yishai Fleisher - Where Do We Stand?". 15 June 2017. If you see it from their perspective, you can understand that they are saying we have got to somehow shutdown this thing called "the settlements," but at the end of the day the symbol of it is very clear. It is the same thing the Nazis did by boycotting Jewish stores. It's really economic warfare. It's really a civilian form of warfare. Don't forget that besiegement and starvation are forms of warfare, and this is kind of a civilian form of the same type of effort to starve somebody out, close them down, and delegitimize them.
^ Clinton, Hillary. "ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW" (PDF). Brookings Institution. Retrieved 14 January 2016. We need to repudiate efforts to malign and undermine Israel and the Jewish people. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement known as BDS is the latest front in this battle. Demonizing Israeli scientists and intellectuals, evenyoung students, comparing Israel to South African apartheid, now no nation is above criticism. But this is wrong and it should stop immediately.
^ "Asked to reverse anti-BDS stance, Justin Trudeau doubles down". January 17, 2019. We have to recognise that there are things that aren't acceptable, not because of foreign policy concerns, but because of Canadian values," Trudeau said. "It's not right to discriminate or make someone feel unsafe on campus because of their religion and unfortunately the BDS movement is often linked to those kinds of things," he said, after being asked by a member of the audience whether he would reverse his anti-BDS stance. "So yes, sir, I will continue to condemn the BDS movement.
^ Dershowitz, Alan. "Boycotting Israeli universities: A victory for bigotry". Haaretz. 17 December 2013.
^ Nelson, Cary. "Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom." Anti-Zionism on Campus, Pessin and Ben-Atar, Indiana UP, 2018, pp. 190-211 (see especially p. 191).
^ Chotiner, Isaac (24 January 2019). "Looking at Anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right: An Interview with Deborah E. Lipstadt". The New Yorker.
^ Pessin, Andrew; Ben-Atar, Doron S.; Pearl, Judea (2018). "BDS and Zionophobic Racism.". Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS. Indiana University Press. pp. 224–235. ISBN 978-0-253-03408-3.
^ "Mordechai Kedar - Where Do We Stand?". July 2017. BDS is a movement that is trying to eradicate Israel altogether. They are following exactly what the Arabs did from 1948 until the mid 60's, when Arabs boycotted companies which dealt with Israel. They also boycotted companies which worked with companies that worked with Israel—a secondary boycott. Companies like Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and Coca Cola did not work in Israel until the '70s and even into '80s because of the Arab boycott. The anti-Jewish boycotters of Israel combined with the Arab/Islamic immigrants in America and Europe are trying to do it again. We already experienced this boycott—it is nothing new and it doesn't work.
^ "Ed Asner: 'I do not support BDS.'". Jewish Journal. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
^ Cite error: The named reference stand-yb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Daly, Sarah-Elizabeth (31 October 2015). "Palestinian Harry Potter fan has called out JK Rowling for the SECOND time". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
^ Krauthammer, Charles (9 January 2014). "Krauthammer: Poison of anti-Semitism continues to proliferate". Chron.
^ Chappell, Elliot (2 September 2021). "Lisa Nandy sets out views on Israel-Palestine during Manchester event". LabourList. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (11 December 2018). "Nick Cave: cultural boycott of Israel is 'cowardly and shameful'". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
^ "Johnny Rotten: 'Don't call me a national treasure'". The Independent. 23 October 2011.
^ "Kiss Lead Singer Gene Simmons Slams Israel Boycotters". Haaretz. Associated Press. 22 March 2011.
^ Paul McCartney promises Israel gig will go ahead despite death threats The Guardian, 16 September 2008

[NY_lawmaker_withdraws_endorsement_from_congressional_candidate_who_announced_support_for_BDS-1] "NY lawmaker withdraws endorsement from congressional candidate who announced support for BDS". 12 July 2022.

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[3] "Helen Mirren criticises Israel boycotters". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2016-06-24. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-09-07.

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[8] Hovav, Ofir. "This Jordanian singer doesn't ...." Haaretz. 19 January 2020. 13 August 2021.

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[Jews_2015-11] "BDS movement seeks to empty Israel of Jews, former Spanish PM says", Haim Isserovitz, 20 June 2015, The Jerusalem Post.

[12] Ahren, Raphael. "Czech lawmakers pass resolution condemning BDS movement". The Times of Israel.

[13] Wintour, Patrick (2014-03-12). "David Cameron says he would oppose boycott of Israel in speech to Knesset". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-15.

[14] Benzaquen, Itamar (14 January 2020). "Israeli ministry paying for anti-BDS propaganda in major news outlets". +972 Magazine. Retrieved 20 April 2021. The Strategic Affairs Ministry, headed by Likud minister Gilad Erdan, has for years been spearheading an international campaign to counter what it sees as "de-legitimization" of the State of Israel. This project has, in large part, involved providing funds and handing down directives to non-governmental organizations and journalists in order to enlist them in the fight against BDS.

[15] Chappell, Elliot (27 September 2021). "Labour conference passes Young Labour Israel and Palestine motion". LabourList.

[16] Mairav Zonszein, 'In Israel, BDS is winning,'+972 magazine 28 March 2016.

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[theguardian-18] Radiohead perform in Israel despite opposition from activists The Guardian. 19 July 2017.

[adl.org-19] Foxman, Abraham. "An Open Letter on Academic Freedom and University Responsibility". ADL. 2 June 2013.

[20] "'Pro-Israel progressive' Ritchie Torres won't join AOC's squad due to BDS stance". Haaretz.

[21] "IAC head Milstein urges: Boycott the boycotters". The Jerusalem Post. May 22, 2016.

[stand-yf-22] "Yishai Fleisher - Where Do We Stand?". 15 June 2017. If you see it from their perspective, you can understand that they are saying we have got to somehow shutdown this thing called "the settlements," but at the end of the day the symbol of it is very clear. It is the same thing the Nazis did by boycotting Jewish stores. It's really economic warfare. It's really a civilian form of warfare. Don't forget that besiegement and starvation are forms of warfare, and this is kind of a civilian form of the same type of effort to starve somebody out, close them down, and delegitimize them.

[23] Clinton, Hillary. "ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW" (PDF). Brookings Institution. Retrieved 14 January 2016. We need to repudiate efforts to malign and undermine Israel and the Jewish people. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement known as BDS is the latest front in this battle. Demonizing Israeli scientists and intellectuals, evenyoung students, comparing Israel to South African apartheid, now no nation is above criticism. But this is wrong and it should stop immediately.

[mee2019jan17-24] "Asked to reverse anti-BDS stance, Justin Trudeau doubles down". January 17, 2019. We have to recognise that there are things that aren't acceptable, not because of foreign policy concerns, but because of Canadian values," Trudeau said. "It's not right to discriminate or make someone feel unsafe on campus because of their religion and unfortunately the BDS movement is often linked to those kinds of things," he said, after being asked by a member of the audience whether he would reverse his anti-BDS stance. "So yes, sir, I will continue to condemn the BDS movement.

[25] Dershowitz, Alan. "Boycotting Israeli universities: A victory for bigotry". Haaretz. 17 December 2013.

[NelsonConspiracy-26] Nelson, Cary. "Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom." Anti-Zionism on Campus, Pessin and Ben-Atar, Indiana UP, 2018, pp. 190-211 (see especially p. 191).

[27] Chotiner, Isaac (24 January 2019). "Looking at Anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right: An Interview with Deborah E. Lipstadt". The New Yorker.

[Pearl-28] Pessin, Andrew; Ben-Atar, Doron S.; Pearl, Judea (2018). "BDS and Zionophobic Racism.". Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS. Indiana University Press. pp. 224–235. ISBN 978-0-253-03408-3.

[stand-mk-29] "Mordechai Kedar - Where Do We Stand?". July 2017. BDS is a movement that is trying to eradicate Israel altogether. They are following exactly what the Arabs did from 1948 until the mid 60's, when Arabs boycotted companies which dealt with Israel. They also boycotted companies which worked with companies that worked with Israel—a secondary boycott. Companies like Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and Coca Cola did not work in Israel until the '70s and even into '80s because of the Arab boycott. The anti-Jewish boycotters of Israel combined with the Arab/Islamic immigrants in America and Europe are trying to do it again. We already experienced this boycott—it is nothing new and it doesn't work.

[30] "Ed Asner: 'I do not support BDS.'". Jewish Journal. 25 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.

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[32] Daly, Sarah-Elizabeth (31 October 2015). "Palestinian Harry Potter fan has called out JK Rowling for the SECOND time". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

[33] Krauthammer, Charles (9 January 2014). "Krauthammer: Poison of anti-Semitism continues to proliferate". Chron.

[34] Chappell, Elliot (2 September 2021). "Lisa Nandy sets out views on Israel-Palestine during Manchester event". LabourList. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[35] Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (11 December 2018). "Nick Cave: cultural boycott of Israel is 'cowardly and shameful'". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2019.

[36] "Johnny Rotten: 'Don't call me a national treasure'". The Independent. 23 October 2011.

[37] "Kiss Lead Singer Gene Simmons Slams Israel Boycotters". Haaretz. Associated Press. 22 March 2011.

[Guardian_20080916-38] Paul McCartney promises Israel gig will go ahead despite death threats The Guardian, 16 September 2008

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