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 This Math Teacher From Kansas Has Sparked A Huge Legal Feud Over BDS
All Esther Koontz wanted to do was train fellow Kansas math teachers to be more effective in the classroom. Everything was set: She had completed the special training program. She had signed up to help schools in need of assistance. She’d even gotten requests from several schools via the state Department of Education and had…
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Fast Forward ACLU Sues Kansas Over Law Targeting Israel Boycotters
(JTA) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Kansas law banning state business with companies that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The ACLU said Wednesday it was representing public school math teacher Esther Koontz, who was denied a state contract because she participates in the anti-Israel boycott….
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Fast Forward Dem Nominee For N.J. Governor Breaks With Running Mate On Israel Boycott Bill
The Democratic nominee for governor of New Jersey announced that he supports a new law barring the state pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel—placing him on the opposite side of the issue as his running mate. Phil Murphy, a financier and former U.S. ambassador to Germany who won the party’s nomination in…
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Community Why I Refuse To Go On Birthright — And You Should, Too.
Earlier this month, registration for Birthright Israel’s winter programs opened, inviting thousands of Jewish young people to accept a gift that seems too good to be true: a completely free trip to Israel. Many of these young people will be excited to experience firsthand the country that they have been taught to consider their own…
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Fast Forward British University Censors Holocaust Survivor’s Talk Comparing Israel To Nazis
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor’s speech that compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazis treatment of Jews was censored by a British university. Manchester University censored the title of a talk in March by Holocaust survivor Marika Sherwood, The Guardian reported on Friday. The original talk was titled: “A Holocaust survivor’s story and the…
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Fast Forward Oscar Frontrunner Apologizes For Signing Petition To Cancel Israeli Play
A director who has been tipped as a potential Oscar nominee for her new movie has apologized for signing a statement this summer calling for a play to be cancelled because its production received Israeli government funding. Greta Gerwig, director of the upcoming film “Lady Bird,” had signed an open letter in July along with…
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Fast Forward University Of Cape Town Considers Israel Boycott
Palestinian activists are urging South Africa’s University of Cape Town to impose an academic and cultural boycott on Israel – a move now being debated by the school’s Academic Freedom Committee. “The rationale for this call is clear – Palestinian human rights are violated by Israel on a daily basis with the direct and indirect…
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Community The Loves We Lost In Vain
On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War began. I was thirteen years old; still a child but old enough to form memories — of sirens so unexpectedly blowing, cars suddenly running along roads usually deserted to pedestrian synagogue goers and secular bike riders. Confusion. Should we turn on the radio? Should we descend to…
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