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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Opinion Ilhan Omar Just Came Out Against Sanctions. So Why Does She Back BDS?
Earlier this week, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar wrote a surprising oped in the Washington Post. In it, she broke ranks with the bipartisan coalition seeking to halt Turkey from devastating the people of Syria, and argued — ostensibly opposing but in fact in line with President Trump — that imposing sanctions on Turkey would be…
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Fast Forward A German City Retracted An Artist’s Prize Over BDS. Now A Museum Will Give It Independently.
The Germany city of Aachen walked back its support for an award for a Lebanese-American artist over concerns about his stance on the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement (BDS) — but he’ll receive the prize anyway, thanks to a defiant art institution. The artist, Walid Raad, was set to receive a €10,000 prize from the…
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Fast Forward American Diplomats Pressured German, Irish Politicians To Oppose BDS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. diplomats in Dublin and Berlin pressed lawmakers and officials in Ireland and Germany to oppose bids to boycott Israel or the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. A State Department report delivered last week to Congress and obtained Monday by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency lists actions taken by U.S. diplomats to…
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Opinion Fighting BDS Isn’t Courageous. It’s Authoritarian.
In recent attack ads against the nonviolent, Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, politician Stav Shaffir alleged that the group and its work were just like Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. In an article and online video, she claimed the BDS movement represents “anti-progressive” politics “based on fear and isolation.” As a member of the…
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Opinion Stav Shaffir: It’s Time To Admit That BDS Is Not Progressive.
Let’s be clear: The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement is anti-progressive. Instead of working to create a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the movement’s leaders unabashedly seek an end to Israel. Instead of seeking justice for Palestinians and Israelis alike, they prize one narrative over another. In doing so, they mislead most BDS…
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Fast Forward Gloria Steinem Slams Netanyahu Over Omar-Tlaib Ban
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday after the Israeli government barred Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s congressional delegation to the West Bank. Steinem, who is Jewish vowed to never visit Israel under Netanyahu’s rule, stating that his ban was “a welcome sign that I never have to enter…
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Fast Forward Tlaib, Omar Share Image From ‘Holocaust Cartoon Contest’ Finalist
Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib shared a cartoon on social media drawn by a finalist of Iran’s “Holocaust cartoon contest,” The Jerusalem Post reported. Omar and Tlaib posted the cartoon by Brazilian-Lebanese cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who came in second in the contest in 2006, to their Instagram stories over the weekend. It shows President…
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Fast Forward Tlaib’s Grandmother Curses Trump Over Cancelled West Bank Visit
(JTA) — Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother cursed President Donald Trump after he tweeted that she should be happy that her granddaughter was not coming to visit her in the West Bank. “Rep. Tlaib wrote a letter to Israeli officials desperately wanting to visit her grandmother. Permission was quickly granted, whereupon Tlaib obnoxiously turned the approval down,…
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