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 Israeli Ambassador Asks To Meet With Lorde Over Canceled Show
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand on Wednesday appealed to the pop star Lorde to meet him after she canceled a show in Tel Aviv after appeals from activists for her to shun Israel as a protest against its treatment of Palestinians. Itzhak Gerberg, Israel’s ambassador to New Zealand, said in a public…
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Opinion Hey, Jewish Establishment: BDS Is Not Jews’ Biggest Threat — Occupation Is
For years now, American Jewish institutions have been making a familiar argument: that Jewish students are under threat from the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement. They hold massive conferences and raise impressive sums. Even Netanyahu has joined their efforts. But this enormous transfer of institutional resources serves a phantom threat. The idea that American Jewish…
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Opinion Lorde’s Canceled Israel Concert Reveals The Hypocrisy Of BDS
Lorde began racking up praise and awards for her debut album, Pure Heroine, before she’d even hit her 18th birthday. Listening to her poetic yet sharp-tongued lyrics, combined with her soulful voice, one reflexively assumed she had spent decades meticulously reflecting on her own passing youth; in fact, she was barely old enough to buy…
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Opinion Thank You, Lorde, For Standing Up For Palestinian Human Rights
When I heard that the internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and record producer Lorde was reconsidering a decision to play in Israel I had a gut feeling that she would cancel the show. This weekend, she did just that. “[I]’ve received an overwhelming number of messages and letters and have had a lot of discussions with…
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Opinion Despite My Non-Zionism, I’ve Chosen To Stay In The Jewish Students Union
My recent campaign to be the President of the UK’s Union of Jewish Students attracted a fair bit of attention in the Jewish media, largely because, as Joseph Finlay recently wrote in the Forward, my views are “diametrically opposed to those traditionally taken by UJS,” the British Union of Jewish Students. I am a non-Zionist,…
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The Schmooze After Backlash Lorde May Cancel Concert In Israel, But Not Concerts In Russia
Singer Lorde has come under fire from from BDS supporters on Twitter after announcing tour dates this coming summer in Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg and Moscow. The 21 year-old “Royals” singer is promoting her 2017 sophomore album “Melodrama,” which received a nomination for album of the year at the most recent Grammy Awards and general…
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Opinion Our Campus Jewish Group Accepts Pro-BDS Students, Even Though They Don’t Return The Favor
Last week, Joseph Finlay wrote in these pages about new developments in the British Union of Jewish Students, the body that represents Jewish Students in the UK and of which I am the CEO. “[UJS] has always run social and religious programming,” writes Finlay. “But its raison d‘etre has long been defending Israel on campus.”…
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Community When Criticism Of Israel Becomes Anti-Semitic
While Twitter can sometimes enable worthwhile conversations between people who would not otherwise cross paths, it can also function as an echo chamber where the same arguments are repeated ad infinitum. So it is with the usual suspects who constantly feel compelled to assert that “criticizing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic. Calling it anti-Semitic is a silencing…
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