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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News L.A. Braces For Biggest Ever Pro-Palestinian Student Conference
Students for Justice in Palestine, the biggest pro-Palestinian student movement in the country, is holding its annual conference this weekend. It will convene from November 16-18 on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles — which has one of the largest Jewish student populations in the country. Predictably, controversy has ensued. National Jewish…
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Opinion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Flip-Flopped On Israel. Ilhan Omar Did Not.
Three of the Democratic Party’s new members of Congress have already made waves for their willingness to criticize Israel: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. After endorsing a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ocasio-Cortez backtracked in response to pressure from the left, refusing to say…
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News Muslim Trailblazer Ilhan Omar Admits She Backs BDS — Now That Election Is Over
Updated November 13 Tuesday marked the start of “freshman orientation” in Washington, D.C., where new members of Congress arrived to meet their colleagues and learn how the House and Senate actually work. Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minneapolis and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, quickly met up with some of…
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Food BDS Pressured Celebrity Chefs To Boycott Israeli Food Festival. Chef Gabrielle Hamilton Withdrew.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has issued a petition signed by more than 70 food industry notables (including cookbook author Julia Turshen and the People’s Kitchen Collective) urging the chefs invited to Israel’s Round Tables Food Festival to reconsider their attendance. The open letter was addressed to chefs like Chef Isa Mazuchi of La…
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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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