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 BDS Activists Stick Protest Labels on Israeli Products in Canadian Stores
TORONTO — Two Canadian corporations have promised vigilance after pro-Palestinian activists plastered their products with anti-Israel stickers. In recent weeks, Facebook posts by those advocating the boycott, divestment and sanctions or BDS campaign against Israel have shown warning labels affixed to bottles of Israeli wine for sale in Vancouver and grocery products at a store…
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News Los Angeles Federation Chief Bluntly Tells Israel to Stay Out of American BDS Fights
A senior Jewish federation executive has unusually blunt words for Israeli government officials planning to take up arms in the anti-BDS struggle on American college campuses: Back off, he says. “The Israeli government needs to get out of this business,” says Jay Sanderson, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los…
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Fast Forward Vassar Students Vote 15-7 for BDS Measure
The student government of Vassar College voted for a resolution calling for a statement supporting a boycott of Israel. The resolution passed Sunday by the Vassar Student Association calls for a political statement in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, against Israel. The approval, which required a simple majority, passed by…
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Opinion How Both Sides of BDS Debate Get Oberlin Anti-Semitism Wrong
Even when the BDS debate reached a crescendo at Oberlin College in 2013, I never felt unsafe on campus. It’s true that as an Israeli-American junior, and as co-founder and co-chair of the college’s J Street U chapter, I was uncomfortable publicly identifying as a Zionist. But I had access to peers, administrators and college…
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Fast Forward 40 Columbia Professors Sign BDS Petition Led by Rashid Khalidi
Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition urging the New York school to divest from companies that “supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.” The petition was released Monday morning to mark the first day of Israel Apartheid Week, the Columbia Spectator reported. According to the petition,…
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Opinion Did Obama Just Make It Kosher To Boycott Settlements?
Last week, President Obama made the strongest statement to date that settlement boycotts are a legitimate tactic for liberal pro-Israel groups and activists to use. Although he certainly did not phrase it that way, his language suggests that a position considered beyond the pale when Peter Beinart advocated it just a few years ago —…
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News Palestinian Activist Threatened for Anti-BDS Stance in Chicago
A Palestinian human rights activist’s tour of Chicago-area college campuses ended on a sour note this week, after he was heckled and threatened by students and anti-Israel protestors. Bassem Eid, an East Jerusalem Palestinian who is the founder and director the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, cancelled his planned lecture at Northwestern University Hillel after…
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Fast Forward McGill University Students Fail to Secure Pro-BDS Motion
MONTREAL (JTA)—Students at Montreal’s McGill University failed to ratify a pro-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions motion against Israel. The controversial motion, which passed in the university’s student society on Feb. 22 by a vote of 512 to 357, and was seen as a blow by pro-Israel students, could not be ratified after being rejected by an…
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