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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Israel News U.S. pro-Israel groups failed to disclose grants from Israeli government
More than half of all American states have passed laws designed to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. No advocacy group was more important to this push than the Israel Allies Foundation, an American non-profit that supports a network of pro-Israel legislators across the globe. It was the IAF that in 2014…
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News A USC student leader resigns amid accusations that her Zionism ‘made her complicit in racism’
The newly-elected vice president of the University of Southern California student government resigned on Wednesday, following accusations that she is a racist for her support of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Rose Ritch, a senior from San Francisco who was elected by the student body in February, said in an open letter to the USC…
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News Early results show Rep. Rashida Tlaib, staunch supporter of BDS, crushing primary opponent
In a dramatic show of newly acquired political strength, Rep. Rashida Tlaib appeared well on her way to crushing City Council President Brenda Jones in Tuesday’s Democratic primary just two years after scraping by Jones by about 900 votes to win the seat. Tlaib, who in 2018 became the first Palestinian-American woman and one of…
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Israel News Israel set up a front company to fight BDS. This is how it failed.
The minutes of the steering committee for a front company established by the Strategic Affairs Ministry in the fight for “mass awareness” against the “delegitimization” of Israel show which projects were funded and the initiative’s failure to raise the amount of donations it promised. Among the projects that the public benefit company, Concert (formerly Kella…
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News In tight Michigan race between Tlaib and Jones, Jews want ‘none of the above’
For some Jewish voters in Michigan’s heavily-Democratic 13th Congressional District — and there aren’t that many — the Aug. 4 Democratic primary is presenting a difficult choice. The one-term incumbent is Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American ever elected to Congress who has drawn repeated accusations of anti-Semitism for her criticism of Israel and support for…
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News Antone Melton-Meaux, Ilhan Omar’s challenger, calls her a ‘divider’
Early in her brief tenure as a member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota received some advice on how not to sound like an anti-Semite. Local Jewish leaders met with the Democrat to provide a crash course in what’s so offensive about suggesting that for Jews “it’s all about the Benjamins” or that Jewish-American…
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Fast Forward UC Davis student government president vetoes boycott Israel resolution
(JTA) — The president of the student government at the University of California, Davis, vetoed a resolution supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The day after the measure passed last week, Kyle Krueger said he acted “because it included minimal to no input from the Jewish community beforehand,” and the resolution “has…
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Fast Forward Oklahoma governor signs anti-Israel boycott legislation
(JTA) — Oklahoma can no longer contract with companies that boycott Israel. On Tuesday, Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, signed a bill that would apply to state contracts over $100,000, unless the company is officially exempted by the Oklahoma secretary of state. The measure says that Oklahoma may not enter into contracts with companies that…
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