Publications

It appears that in 2015 there was a transformation in Israel’s approach toward the BDS phenomenon. Although the BDS campaign had been in existence for several years, it was only in 2015 that the Israeli government allocated a significant increase in the resources channeled toward dealing with this phenomenon. It is thus fair to assume that Yediot Ahronot contributed to the pressure exerted on the Israeli government to deal with the phenomenon on the state level. We suggest that the newspaper’s impact in this respect is relevant primarily regarding the first landmark (June 2015), when the intensive media coverage played an important role in identifying and characterizing the global BDS campaign and placing it on the Israeli public agenda.