This is 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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Fast Forward YouTube Removes Video Asking Alicia Keys To Cancel Concert in Israel
YouTube removed a video calling on Alicia Keys to cancel a concert in Tel Aviv. Set to Keys’ popular song “This Girl is on Fire,” the video was removed on Monday, according to the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. The video, “Alicia Keys, Come Together with Your Sisters, Boycott Apartheid,”…
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Fast Forward Israeli Diplomat Strikes Back at Alice Walker’s Over Boycott Plea
Israel’s consular general in New York accused novelist Alice Walker of urging artists to scapegoat Israel, following the publication of an open letter by Walker imploring singer Alicia Keys to boycott Israel and cancel her concert there. In an open letter to Walker published Wednesday in the New York Post, Ido Aharoni defended Israel’s right…
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Opinion Defending My Stephen Hawking Cartoon
I appreciate Hillel Halkin’s passionate response to a cartoon that supports the boycott of Israel, promotes anti-Semitism, and advocates a viewpoint that he insists must not be permitted in a Jewish newspaper. Unfortunately, that is not the cartoon I drew. My cartoon pilloried the absurdity and intellectual vacuity of hasbara, the public relations effort by…
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Fast Forward Canada’s Largest Protestant Church to Boycott 3 Israeli Products from Settlements
Canada’s largest Protestant church targeted three Israeli companies with operations in Jewish settlements for economic sanctions and boycott. Last week, the United Church of Canada’s governing General Council approved the start of a boycott campaign, encouraging “economic action” against Keter Plastic, SodaStream and Ahava. The move is an outgrowth of the church’s decision last year…
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Israel News Is Steven Hawking’s Decision To Boycott an Israeli Conference Boon to BDS?
In the battle between supporters of Israel and those calling for a boycott of the Jewish state success is measured to a great extent by symbolic victories. And nothing makes for more of a symbolic victory than getting the most prominent living scientist to boycott Israel’s most prestigious gathering. Such was the impact of British…
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Opinion Brief History of Stephen Hawking’s Hypocrisy
Got wheels, Mr. Hawking?
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Fast Forward U. Cal-Berkeley Senate Passes Bill Calling for Divestment From Settlements
A student senate at the University of California, Berkeley narrowly passed a measure calling on the school to divest from three companies with dealings in the West Bank. Following 10 hours of sometimes heated debate, the Associated Students of the University of California senate early Wednesday morning passed the resolution in an 11-9 vote, the…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn College BDS Forum Organizers Cleared of Barring Jews
A report commissioned by Brooklyn College has cleared organizers of the controversial forum on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement held in February at Brooklyn College of charges that they discriminated against Jews in admitting people to the event. The report faulted the pro-BDS organizers, however, for kicking out four attendees, suggesting that they were…
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