Welcome to the Forward‘s coverage of BDS – the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to pressure Israel to change its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Breaking News Brooklyn College Political Science Department Signs on as Sponsor of BDS Event
The political science faculty at Brooklyn College reportedly will be an official co-sponsor for an event in support of the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement. The Feb. 7 event will feature Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the BDS movement, and Judith Butler, an academic who openly speaks sympathetically about Hamas and Hezbollah, according to…
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Breaking News ‘Dump Veolia’ Water Debacle in St. Louis Is Latest in BDS Battle
A potential contract between the St. Louis Water Division and Veolia Water, a water treatment and service company, has become a battleground issue for Palestinian human rights activists. The St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee (STL-PSC) has called for a campaign to “Dump Veolia,” due to its involvement in alleged “systematic ethnic discrimination against Palestinians” in…
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Breaking News South Africa’s Ruling Party Endorses BDS Campaign Against Israel
JSouth Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, voted to make boycotts, divestment and sanctions of Israel part of its official policy. In a resolution passed Thursday night, at the tail end of its conference this week, the ANC proclaimed it was “unapologetic in its view that the Palestinians are the victims and the oppressed…
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Breaking News U. Cal. Officials Reject Israel Divestment Bill
University of California at Irvine campus administrators have rejected a resolution by the undergraduate student council calling for divestment from companies that “profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.” At the same time, Jewish community leaders in Orange County, which includes Irvine, denounced “the nonbinding resolution, drafted and introduced with no forewarning by a small group…
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Israel News Will Upgrading West Bank College Boost Boycott Movement?
A decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “strengthen higher education in the State of Israel,” as he put it, may hand the international academic boycott lobby a gift on a silver platter, Israeli analysts say. In September, Israel’s Cabinet approved a controversial plan that will give the West Bank’s Jewish settlements their first university….
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Breaking News Flotilla Sponsor Tweets that Zionists Helped Perpetrate the Holocaust
The founder of the Free Gaza Movement, which uses flotillas in trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, tweeted that Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust, then apologized. Greta Berlin tweeted that she meant to post the tweet to her private Facebook account rather than the organization’s Twitter account. The original tweet, sent Sept. 30…
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Culture Zionism and Its Discontents
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism By Judith Butler Columbia University Press, 256 pages, $27 Judith Butler is not anti-Semitic. I agree with her on that point, which she makes on her publisher’s website. Her new book, “Parting Ways,” represents her attempt to set the record straight regarding her controversial views on Zionism….
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Breaking News Canada’s Largest Protestant Church OK’s BDS
Canada’s largest Protestant church has voted to boycott goods from Israel’s Jewish settlements. Voting Aug. 17 on a final set of resolutions, members of the church’s governing General Council passed a measure to boycott products exported by Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in eastern Jerusalem. The resolution calls on church members “to avoid…
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