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 As Methodist Church Votes on BDS, Hillary Clinton Calls Push ‘Harmful’
WASHINGTON — On the eve of a bid to get her church to divest from companies allegedly profiting from Israel’s control of the West Bank, Hillary Clinton reasserted that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was counterproductive to peace. The frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination responded on May 8 to an appeal from the…
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News BDS Battle Heats Up on New Front — Socially Responsible Investing
WASHINGTON – While “Israel apartheid week” events on campus and student government boycott resolutions have been grabbing the attention of pro-Israel organizations, a potentially more consequential battle over pressuring Israel has been raging in corporate boardrooms and shareholder meetings. The target audience for these efforts: investors concerned about the social and moral aspects of their…
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Opinion New Comedy ‘Activist’ Tackles Israel Divestment on Campus — But Is It Funny?
Campus activists who work on Israel-Palestine — particularly Jewish ones — are both busy and tense. On one hand, Israel’s deepening occupation and the Israeli government’s current obsession with combatting BDS are natural fuel for the activist fire. On the other, the attempts by the Jewish community to marginalize those who don’t toe the party…
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Fast Forward Iowa Senate Votes 38-9 for Anti-BDS Bill
— The Iowa state Senate voted to approve a bill aimed at countering the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel. The bill approved Wednesday by a vote of 38-9 prevents state funds from being invested in companies that boycott Israel. The bill was passed in February year by the Iowa state House….
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News Luxe Florida Country Clubs Lash Out at Security Firm That Quit Israel
South Florida retirees are turning their local country clubs into an unlikely battlefield in the fight over Israel. Following global security provider G4S’s announcement in March that they would be severing all contracts with Israel, retirees responded in kind, and at least seven local country clubs say they are considering terminating their decades-long relationship with the…
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Opinion Want To Keep Students from Turning to BDS? Try Mock Peace Negotiations With a Twist
As the two of us headed to the University of California, Santa Barbara to give a talk about Palestinian-Israeli peace back in 2009, we didn’t think much about it. We’re both veterans of this conflict, accustomed to the regular interactions between Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East, and to the civil, collegial and interactive…
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News Welcome to Queens College, Where Jews and Muslims Dialogue
On a recent afternoon in Queens, Secretary of State John Kerry sat with Israeli and Palestinian representatives, chatting amiably. “It’s great to see you two side by side,” Kerry said to the delegates. “Now, have we agreed about these land swaps?” The Israeli and Palestinian smiled and nodded — a historic agreement had been reached;…
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News Did Illinois Bungle First-in-Nation Anti-BDS Blacklist?
WASHINGTON — When Nordea Bank, a large, Stockholm-based financial services firm, got word that it had been blacklisted by the state of Illinois for boycotting Israel, top officials at the company were genuinely perplexed. “It’s strange, very strange,” Sasja Beslik, head of responsible investments at Nordea Asset Management, told the Forward. “I don’t know how…
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