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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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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Opinion Fans And Foes Debate Radiohead’s Upcoming Concert In Israel
Donald Trump. George Bush. Tony Blair. The World Trade Organization. Factory Farms. Spotify. Tibet. Radiohead singer Thom Yorke has taken a stand against quite a few political figures and issues over the years. Is Israel next? It increasingly looks unlikely — for now. Radiohead is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on July 19 as…
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Community The Zionist Nightmare
As the character Walter Sobchak said in the famous Coen Brothers film, The Big Lebowski, “If you will it, Dude, it is no dream.” These words (without the “Dude”) attributed to Zionist leader Theodor Herzl have been quoted repeatedly with the intention of inspiring hope among Zionists and, really, among all Jews. We were supposed…
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Opinion BDS: Netanyahu’s Favorite Boogeyman
Fifty years have passed since the Six-Day War in 1967 and the beginning of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. For those of us who support the two state solution, and who work toward an end to the occupation, this anniversary is an opportunity for reflection and renewed focus. Fifty years of occupation…
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Fast Forward Roger Waters: Radiohead Won’t Boycott Israel — Even Though I Asked
Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters says that he failed to convince the British rock group Radiohead to back out of its Tel Aviv show in protest of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. “I have engaged in a correspondence with some of Radiohead and they seem to have decided that they’re going to go ahead and…
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News UW BDS Activists Blamed Israel For Police Violence, Intimidated Jewish Students
Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are up in arms after the student government passed a resolution on Wednesday blaming Israel for police violence against African-Americans and calling for divestment from companies aiding Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, a move that was allegedly reached through under- handed tactic0 s0. “They have trampled on…
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Fast Forward New Jersey University Students Vote Down BDS Resolution
(JTA) — The student government at Montclair State University reportedly voted down a resolution calling on the school to boycott Israel. The measure was defeated Wednesday by a vote of 11-1, with six abstentions. An earlier survey aimed at gauging student support for the measure found that 64 percent of students at the New Jersey…
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Fast Forward Reform Movement Leader Denounces Israel’s BDS Travel Ban
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, leader of the Union for Reform Judaism, sent an open letter Wednesday to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu protesting a new travel ban barring supporters of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against the state and its West Bank settlements. “I have been a fierce personal opponent of BDS and boycotts against Israel,” the Reform…
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