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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Opinion 6 Jewish Students Reveal How Israel Debate Colors Campus Life
When the Forward put out a call for students to tell us about a college experience that had shaped their Jewish identity in some way — good, bad or otherwise — we expected to receive a diversity of responses. And in a way, we did: Students wrote about moments in Mumbai and Johannesburg and Ithaca,…
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Fast Forward UN Blacklists Israeli Businesses Operating in West Bank
JERUSALEM – Israel on Thursday assailed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for adopting a measure that calls for the establishment of a database of businesses “involved in activities” in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, called the database a “blacklist” and said the UNHRC was behaving “obsessively” against Israel. The…
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Fast Forward BDS Prof Likens Sodastream’s Palestinian Workers to Nazi Slave Labor
A New Zealand professor riled the local Jewish community by comparing Israel’s SodaStream to a German company that used Jewish slave labor during World War II. In a letter to New Zealand’s Waikato Times on Nov. 28, University of Auckland sociology professor Scott Poynting equated the Israeli firm, which employed Palestinians, with IG Farben, which…
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Fast Forward Playwright Tony Kushner’s Pro-BDS Ties Spark Controversy
TORONTO — The local Jewish federation has dissociated itself from an event taking place in May at one its beneficiary agencies, the Koffler Centre of the Arts, featuring controversial American playwright Tony Kushner. In a March 21 statement, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto noted, after “thoughtful consideration,” that Kushner is a member of the…
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Fast Forward READ: The Letter Signed By 235 Columbia Professors Decrying BDS
More than 200 Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition supporting the university’s ties with Israel and opposing divestment from companies that do business with the Jewish state. The letter, which was posted online Sunday, is signed by some 235 professors and other faculty members. It comes in the wake of the establishment of…
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Opinion Vassar Through the Eyes of a Non-Jewish Zionist Professor
The atmosphere at Vassar College, where I’ve been teaching Russian history since 1999, is troubled. I am not Jewish, but even I have experienced an increase in hostility and strained silences among students and colleagues. I have been called a “f—king fascist,” “Zionist” and “idiot” for speaking out against Vassar’s BDS resolution and speaking up…
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News Bidets Not BDS
At a recent board meeting of suburban Temple Emuna Gedola, president Steven Spielberg (not that one) deftly steered the conversation away from how the congregation should deal with Israel’s behavior in the occupied territories back to the ongoing bathroom renovations.
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Fast Forward Boycott Stickers Appearing on Israeli Products Across Canada
The stickers in recent weeks were affixed to bottles of Israeli wine in Vancouver, British Columbia and to grocery products in Calgary, Alberta. Both affected corporations removed the labels and vowed increased vigilance. Facebook posts now show the stickers on Sabra Hummus, Keter and Sodastream products, Glutino biscuits, dates and tangerines at grocers and hardware…
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