groups and twenty sixteen revealed that most of the collateral damage being done to israel by the b.d.s. movement is a result of a growing silent boycott another indication of how serious israel takes b.d.s. is the money it spends to fight it in december two thousand and seventeen the israeli government approves seventy two million dollars to combat b.d.s. with the israeli government showing no signs that it will respect palestinian rights the grassroots b.d.'s campaign will likely continue to grow reporting from boom bust dan cohen. president trump announced earlier this month that he wanted to send more than four thousand national guardsmen to the us mexico border to support border patrol texas arizona new mexico have pledged a total of sixteen hundred troops even california governor jerry brown will be sending four hundred guardsmen as well according to the american immigration council the u.s. government has spent more than two hundred thirty six billion dollars on immigration enforcement since the last major overhaul in one nine hundred eighty six but will sending troops really mean anything

rest of humanity and that the economics of the boycott divestment and sanctions movements or b.d.s. movement in the middle east plus we take a little t.v. trip to figure out what's going on at the border wall with mexico as miller author of storming the wall joins us all of that on our site but first let's get right to some headlines oil prices continue their rise fueled by increasing tensions in the middle east the key culprit conflict in syria where president trump took to twitter yesterday to make threats of missile strikes russia in turn said they would not take part in twitter diplomacy and rather favored a serious approach this most recent round of saber rattling was spurred by the controversy over suspected chemical weapons attack which the west blamed on syria the syrian government while the russian ambassador to the u.n. denied there was any evidence of such an attack president trump muddled the outlook today with yet another tweet which said the u.s. attack on syria get this could be very soon or not so soon or at all or fairly soon you can't make this stuff up folks but syria isn'

supporter so then portman responded on instagram saying that she does not endorse b.d.s. movement but says israel was created as a haven for refugees from the holocaust but the mistreatment of those suffering from today's atrocities is not in line with her jewish values she would also have. so had to share a stage with benjamin netanyahu whose comments she labeled racist in two thousand and fifteen when he was seeking reelection you may remember he warned in this video clip here that arab voters were heading to the polls in droves he also said that a palestinian state would not be established under his watch now the israeli organization peace now says bravo for speaking truth to power peace loving supporters of israel they say should snub netanyahu after years of him trying to destroy the chances for a two state solution so let us know what you think about this you can share your views using the hash tag is in his grade or message me directly i'm doing just to pick up on what andrew was saying about b.d.s. you can log on to al-jazeera dot com to find out more about the boycott div

b.d.s. the boycott divestment sanctions movement which they see is the only method to force israel to comply with international law when you look at the boycott divestment sanctions list the b.d.s. less and you look at the things that are either created in the state of israel whether they're exploiting palestinian labor or building factories on the stolen land there are a lot of ways that we can combat the profiting off the state of israel off of the palestinians and their land activists marion ingram said it was her experience fleeing nazi germany the motivated. her to come to the protest i am here because i was a pressure against any human being and being a holocaust survivor i especially. protest israelis occupation of palestinian with israeli officials refusing to change open fire orders and more demonstrations planned in the upcoming weeks this bloody scenario may play out again and again in washington dan cohen artsy. called joins us now to talk a little bit more in-depth about that story it's interesting what has been the response over the thought of this photo journalist yasser monta

there's even a south african branch of the anti israel boycott divestment and sanctions movement also known as b.d.s. they believe that artists around the world should support palestine the same way that they helped black south africans overthrow the apartheid government in the early ninety's and they're clearly clearly upset about black coffees performance but the rest of the community we're seeing appears to be divided there's saki here who says that as long as south africa is trading with israel musicians like black coffee should be able to perform there so it's clearly a controversial story what we want to hear what you think of black coffees performance in tel aviv you can let us know using the hash tag agent is good. thank you if you're watching us on facebook coming up the story of a texas teen has fulfilled his dream of getting into stanford university as well as . other colleges and in sports as the commonwealth games begin find out why the event is so important for athletes from small donations don't be here with that story they show he decided. all right time to find out what people are t