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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Fast Forward Scott Wallace, Dem Whose Foundation Gave $300K To BDS Groups, Loses House Race
In one of the closest and hardest-fought election races in the country, Democratic philanthropist Scott Wallace lost his bid to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in a disproportionately-Jewish district in the Philadelphia suburbs. Wallace was criticized by many in the local Jewish community after the Forward revealed that his family foundation had given $300,000…
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Community The Anti-Israel Professor Who’s A Darling Of The Alt Right — And The Far Left
The US Government created Ebola, Zika and Swine Flu. The Anthrax attacks after 9/11 were an inside job. America is run by Zionists and Rothschilds. Harvard graduates, including President Obama, have a “Nazi mentality.” One would think these were the deranged rantings of an obscure conspiracy theorist, but they are not. These views belong to…
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Letters Lara Alqasem Was A Victory For Liberal Zionism
The Israeli Supreme Court was slammed by leading Israeli politicians for its recent ruling not to deport the young Lara Alqasem, an American student with Palestinian origins. Gilead Erdan, Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, who led the campaign to deport Alqasem, said that the court’s ruling constitutes a victory to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
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Fast Forward Lara Alqasem Allowed Into Israel After Supreme Court Accepts Appeal
U.S. student Lara Alqasem will be allowed to enter Israel after the Supreme Court accepted on Thursday her appeal against the decision to prevent her entry. Alqasem, whom the state claimed was a BDS activist, was held over two weeks in a detainment center at Ben-Gurion International Airport despite receiving a student visa from an…
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Opinion For Students Like Me, Anti-BDS But Critical Of Israel, There’s No Place On Campus
All eyes have been on University of Michigan, my university, these past few weeks, thanks to some controversial incidents: two professors refusing to write recommendations for students seeking to study in Israel and a required seminar class comparing Israel’s Prime Minister to Hitler. Even though I was warned, before I started at Michigan, about the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups At UC Davis Say Hate Incidents Are ‘Swept Under The Rug’
(JTA) — Jewish groups at the University of California, Davis, said in a letter to the school’s chancellor that hate incidents are “continuously being swept under the rug.” The letter came a week after fliers blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against newly sworn-in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were posted on campus. The…
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The Schmooze Israeli Court Demands Two New Zealand Activists Pay $18K For Urging Boycott Of Lorde Concert
Picture this: You’re going on a date tomorrow with a wonderful-seeming man. A friend of a friend calls you — she heard about your date plans and she wants to warn you that she went on a date with the man, and when she didn’t go home with him he called her a whore. You’ve…
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Fast Forward Israeli Court Upholds Detention Of American Student Activist Lara Alqasem
An Israeli court on Friday upheld the barring of an American student from the country over her activities in support of an international boycott campaign by pro-Palestinian groups. Lara Alqasem, 22, flew to Israel last week on a student visa but was refused entry. While in airport detention, she filed an appeal with Tel Aviv…
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