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 Norway’s Largest Union Calls For Total Boycott Of Israel
(JTA) — Norway’s largest trade union reaffirmed its support for a total boycott of Israel. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, known locally as LO, represents over 900,000 unionized workers in the country – more than one quarter of the adult working population. Its delegates voted 193 to 117 on Friday in favor of a…
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Fast Forward California State University Student Body Votes To Boycott Israel
(JTA) — A student association affiliated with California State University, Long Beach passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies “profiting from Palestinian oppression.” The senate of Associated Students, Inc., a nonprofit membership association and auxiliary organization of the university, passed the call Wednesday in a resolution addressed to the university but which is not binding…
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Fast Forward University Panel Orders Student Govt. Reps To Apologize For Passover BDS Vote
Student government representatives were ordered to apologize after they held meetings during Passover to discuss divestment from Israel. The decision came from the Student Judiciary arm of the Associated Students of Madison, the university student government. It demanded that the ASM chairwoman write a letter to apologize and explain “why Passover is important to the…
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Fast Forward Texas Governor Praises Bank’s Decision To Close Pro-BDS Group’s Account
Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised a decision by one of America’s largest banks to close the account of an organization that supports the boycott of Israel, in a move that Abbott tied to the state’s new law banning government business with Israel-boycotters. The Jerusalem Post reported last week that the Dallas-based firm Comerica Bank would…
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Community The Extremists Among Us
This past March at the second annual “Ambassadors Against BDS” conference at the UN, South Carolina State Representative Alan Clemmons called me anti-Semitic. I was there with ten other J Street U students to discuss progressive, pro-Israel and anti-occupation alternatives to BDS. Hundreds of people in attendance stood up and applauded Clemmons’ accusation, and then…
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Fast Forward Texas Governor Signs Anti-BDS Law
(JTA) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill banning state entities from dealing with businesses that boycott Israel or its settlements. Abbott signed the bill on Tuesday, which was Israel Independence Day, at the Jewish Community Center of Austin. “You can always count on Texas,” Abbott said at the signing ceremony. “Any anti-Israel policy…
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Fast Forward Texas Becomes 17th State To Pass Law Outlawing BDS
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law on Tuesday that prohibited state agencies from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. “You can always count on Texas,” Abbott said at the signing ceremony at the Austin Jewish Community Center. “Any anti-Israel policy is an anti-Texas policy.” The law, known as HB 89, charges the Texas Comptroller’s…
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Fast Forward College Fights ‘BDS’ Campaign With Israeli Science Database – And Wordplay
One of Israel’s top universities has built a database of Israeli research breakthroughs in order to counter the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign with their own BDS – Building Dialogue through Science. The Weizmann Institute of Science’s new BDS website contains academic publications and summaries of inventions and innovations made possible by collaborations…
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