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 White House Pushes Back on West Bank Language in Anti-BDS Bill
The Obama administration said it does not support the portion of a new trade law that requires actions against entities that boycott goods manufactured in lands the United States does not recognize as belonging to Israel. “As with any bipartisan compromise legislation, there are provisions in this bill that we do not support, including a…
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Fast Forward BDS Goes Down Under as Australia Party Seeks Ban on Israel Trips
A former national president of the Australian Labor Party has criticized its New South Wales branch following the publication of motions seeking to ban its members from participating in Jewish-sponsored trips to Israel. The motion will be raised at the NSW Labor conference to be held in Sydney on February 13 and February 14. Warren…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Presbyterian Group Pushes Back at BDS Campaign
WASHINGTON — A Presbyterian group that works with Jewish groups to counter anti-Israel activity within the church published a pamphlet aimed at stopping the church from abandoning support for the two-state solution. “Two States for Two Peoples,” released this week, comes “as activists from the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement are working toward…
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Fast Forward Park Slope Food Coop Just Made Things Much Harder for BDS
The Boycott Israel debate is once more dividing members of a food cooperative in Brooklyn — and this time the anti-BDS side instituted new rules to make it more difficult to boycott anyone. At a recent general meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop, members voted 294 to 192 to require a 75% super majority,…
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Fast Forward BDS Push to Have Israel Expelled From World Medical Association Fails
The World Medical Association will not expel Israeli physicians over pro-Palestinian activists’ allegations that they practice torture, the president of the world body said. Michael Marmot, the London-born physician at the head of the association, made the assertion in a letter he sent Monday to Shimon Samuels, the international relations director of the Simon Wiesenthal…
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Fast Forward U. of South Florida BDS Measure Vetoed After 32-12 Vote in Favor
The student body president and vice president at the University of South Florida vetoed a resolution that calls for the divestment from companies complicit in human rights violations against the Palestinian people. Andy Rodriguez and Michael Malanga, the president and vice president, respectively, of the Student Government Senate, rejected the resolution at the body’s meeting…
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Fast Forward Oberlin Alums Say BDS Drive is Fueling Campus Anti-Semitism
Jewish alumni and students of Ohio’s Oberlin College say the pro-Palestine Boycott Israel movement has become a springboard for growing anti-Semitism. “Several student organizations at Oberlin have assumed the role as the mouthpiece of the BDS (Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel) movement, which claims to be a defender of Palestinian rights, but whose inflammatory…
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Fast Forward 200 Brazilian Academics Join Anti-Israel Boycott
RIO DE JANIERO — A group of 200 Brazilian left-wing university professors and researchers signed an online letter supporting an academic boycott of Israel. “The professors and researchers who sign below, reaffirming their commitment to social justice and against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism, declare their support for the campaign for an academic boycott…
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