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 Birthright Won’t Vet Applicants Despite Walkouts Protesting Israeli Occupation
Despite several highly publicized walkouts on its program, Birthright does not intend to introduce a vetting procedure that would weed out potential troublemakers from the free trips it offers to Israel. In recent weeks, Jewish-American participants have filmed themselves walking out of three separate Birthright trips to protest the occupation and the absence of discussion…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Around The World Argue Criticism Of Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic
(JTA) — Thirty-six Jewish groups from around the world have signed a statement condemning the conflation of anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel. “As social justice organizations from around the world, we write this letter with growing alarm regarding the targeting of organizations that support Palestinian rights in general and the nonviolent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
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Opinion Can BDS Target The Occupation Without Being Anti-Israel? The Case Of Ireland
Last Wednesday, Ireland’s Senate approved a bill that will make it illegal to purchase products and services from Israeli settlements if it’s signed into law by President Michael Higgins. The vote was immediately declared a huge success for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement by the left, and an anti-Semitic travesty by the right. This…
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News American Activist Considers Making Aliyah To Skirt Israel Travel Ban
Jewish activist Ariel Gold, who was refused entry to Israel this week because of her support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, says she has not ruled out the possibility of immigrating to the country. Speaking from her home in Ithaca, New York, Gold told Haaretz that making aliyah “is something I am looking…
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News Can GOP Use Israel As Wedge Issue Against Democrat Who Donated To BDS Groups?
A Democratic congressional candidate running in a heavily Jewish district outside Philadelphia won the endorsement of a prominent local Jewish organization after he disavowed his family foundation’s donations to groups supporting the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel. Scott Wallace had come under fire after the Forward revealed his foundation donated hundreds of thousands…
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Fast Forward Israel Denies Entrance To Jewish-American BDS Activist
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Jewish-American activist was denied entrance to Israel over her work with the BDS movement, despite having a valid student visa. Ariel Gold, a 43-year-old mother of two who is active in the social justice NGO CodePink, was detained on Sunday night at Ben Gurion International Airport. She wrote in a Facebook…
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Fast Forward Right-Wing Activists Cheer Jewish History Center Head’s Departure
The hawkish Zionist activists who demanded the firing of the head of Manhattan’s Center for Jewish History over his ties to the dovish New Israel Fund applauded his announcement that he is leaving his post to return to academic life. The right-wing leaders of the campaign against David Myers stopped short of taking credit for…
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Opinion When Fighting BDS Helps BDS
Israeli soccer fans were all set to haul out blue-and-white flags again this past weekend. The display of Argentina’s official colors would have celebrated the arrival of that country’s national team and its captain — Europe’s leading scorer, Lionel Messi — for a match against Israel’s all-star squad. But the much-anticipated game was cancelled at…
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