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 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Opinion We’re Nobody’s ‘Jew-Washing’ Pawns
In his latest column, Philologos correctly parses the linguistic problems with Yitzhak Santis and Gerald M. Steinberg’s invented term, “Jew-washing.” His political analysis, alas, fails miserably. Philologos has it completely wrong when he speaks of the “anti-Semitism in boycotts of Israel.” To begin with, Santis and Steinberg did not use the term “Jew-washing” in reference…
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Culture ‘Jew-Washing’ Is Bad Practice and Phrase
In the July 24 issue of the New York Jewish Week, you’ll find an article by Yitzhak Santis and Gerald M. Steinberg that begins: “At the Pittsburgh General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) earlier this month, a motion to adopt a boycott of three companies for doing business with Israel was hotly debated and…
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Fast Forward Episcopal Church Calls for Two-State Solution
The U.S.-based Episcopal Church adopted a resolution at its General Convention Assembly calling for “a negotiated two-state solution” and “positive investment” as responses to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Also at the meeting in Indianapolis, delegates tabled a resolution urging “corporate engagement” by the church and dissemination of “information on products” made in the West Bank. The…
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News Presbyterians Move Toward Israel Divestment
The Presbyterian church is on the brink of approving a long-debated measure to divest church funds from three companies that do business with Israel. The move, opposed by mainstream Jewish groups, was overwhelmingly approved by a vote of 36 to 11 by a committee of the Presbyterian Church (USA) on July 3. The church’s general…
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