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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Opinion Enough With The Hysterics. Anti-BDS Laws Are Perfectly Constitutional.
The Constitutionality of laws penalizing the boycott of Israel, known as BDS, is being called into question by elected government officials as the Senate considers the Combating BDS Act in Senate Bill 1. As Senator Dianne Feinstein put it, “This Israel anti-boycott legislation would give states a free pass to restrict First Amendment protections for…
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News GOP Tries To Embarrass Democrats By Pushing Israel Vote During Shutdown
It’s the first vote of the new United States Senate – but it’s doubling as a preview of the 2020 presidential campaign. Senate Democrats on Tuesday night blocked a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Marco Rubio that includes aid for Israel and also controversial curbs on supporting the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction…
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Opinion ‘Dual Loyalty’? Nice Try. Republicans Are The Ones Using Israel As A Partisan Football
We’ve heard a lot about the anti-Semitic “dual loyalty” canard recently. The idea that Jews are more loyal to Israel and each other than they are to the country in which they live has been used to justify the mass murder of Jews since Pharaoh in the Bible. It’s something we’re sensitive about, and in…
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Fast Forward Did Rashida Tlaib Accuse Anti-BDS Bill Backers Of Dual Loyalty?
Critics of Representative Rashida Tlaib said she made accusations of dual loyalty against backers of the bill that would protect states working against the BDS movement in ways that some say violate free speech rights. Tlaib tweeted on Sunday that people who support the bill “forgot what country they represent.” They forgot what country they…
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Israel News Democratic Newcomers Herald ‘New Reality’ For Israel In Congress
The new U.S. Congress held its first session on Thursday, ushering in a new generation of Democratic lawmakers and possibly signaling a new era in Israel-U.S. relations. For the first time since entering the White House two years ago, U.S. President Donald Trump will have to deal with a new reality in which his political…
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Opinion Ilhan Omar Needs To Apologize For Her Anti-Semitic Tweet – Like I Did.
When I think about the election of Minnesota Democratic Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, her election is a milestone: she is the first Somali-American Muslim woman elected to Congress and a strong supporter of Palestinian human rights in a Congress that often sees them as an afterthought. But on the…
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News When Jewish Leaders Decide To Harass College Kids — To ‘Support’ Israel
In June of 2015, one of the leading intellectuals of the Jewish establishment stood on stage in front of hundreds of American Jewish leaders and called for the community to picket outside the home of a college junior. It was the keynote speech at the American Jewish Committee’s annual conference in a year when the…
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Fast Forward British Bank To Divest From Israeli Arms Maker Over ‘Human Rights’ Issues
(JTA) — Europe’s largest bank, the London-based HSBC, said it will divest from Israeli defense contractor Elbit over “human rights” issues. HSBC sources confirmed to the Jerusalem Post that the bank, said to be the seventh largest financial institution in the world, had divested from Elbit, one of Israel’s largest defense companies, the newspaper reported…
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