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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Israel News Mayor Bloomberg Backs Brooklyn College in Flap Over Boycott Israel Panel
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg harshly criticized city officials who had called on Brooklyn College’s political science department to drop their sponsorship of a pro-BDS panel at a press conference today. Stipulating that he “couldn’t disagree more violently” with the movement that seeks to impose boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel, Bloomberg said he…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn College President Won’t Cancel Boycott Israel Panel
The president of Brooklyn College hit back against New York City Council members who threatened to withhold funds to the school if it allows a panel discussion about the boycott Israel campaign to go forward later this week. Brooklyn College President Karen Gould insisted the discussion would go ahead as planned and defended the decision…
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News Brooklyn College Blasted for Sponsoring Boycott Israel Event
All of New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidates and a handful of congressmen have asked a public college in Brooklyn to withdraw its political science department’s co-sponsorship of a panel discussion on the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel. In a January 31 letter, the congress members and mayoral candidates decried the department’s…
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Fast Forward Students Protest Hillel’s BDS Ban
A Harvard Jewish student group has launched a national protest of Hillel rules barring partnerships with groups that back boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Local campus Hillels have cited the rules in recent decisions to cancel events, deny recognition to student groups, and, in one case, to expel a student from Hillel leadership. The…
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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward ‘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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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