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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The Schmooze Adam Sandler Drops F-Bombs On Boycott Israel Movement
Adam Sandler criticized Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters and movement to boycott Israel in an appearance on the Howard Stern Show. “I’m disgusted they single out Israel,” Sandler said Tuesday on Stern’s Sirius satellite radio show. “That [they say], ‘We can’t play Israel.’ All these f—king nice Israeli people are getting a ‘f—k you’…
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Fast Forward Pro-BDS Prof Who Snubbed Israeli Girl Probed for ‘Nazi Jews’ Remark
A British Jewish academic who told a 13-year-old Israeli girl that she would not answer her questions for a school project until there is peace in Palestine is under police investigation. The Cambridgeshire Constabulary has confirmed to the London-based Jewish Chronicle that it was investigating a complaint about a comment by archaeo-zoologist Marsha Levine. The…
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Fast Forward Women’s Studies Group Votes 653-to-86 for Israel Boycott
The National Women’s Studies Association voted to join the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The vote on the BDS referendum passed 653 to 86 at the organization’s annual conference earlier this month, the association announced last week. Slightly more than a third of the members voted. The recommendation to join the BDS…
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Life For the Women’s Studies Association, the BDS Vote Was Over Before It Began
The results of the vote on the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution put forth by the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) came over email this past Friday. Of those voting, 88.4 percent or 653 people approved the BDS resolution; 86 opposed. Thirty five percent of the NWSA membership voted. As a longtime member of NWSA,…
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Fast Forward BDS Backers Try to Label All Israeli Products in German Town
A team of self-styled “goods inspectors” in a German town tried to label all the Israeli products they could find as being “from illegal Israeli settlements.” On Saturday, the proponents of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement visited businesses in downtown Bremen, in northwest Germany, checking to see that products from Israeli settlements were…
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Fast Forward Anthropologists Vote Overwhelmingly in Favor of BDS
The academic group representing American anthropologists voted by an overwhelming 1,040-to-138 margin on Friday night to approve a proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The measure, which bans collaborations between the association and Israeli universities, will now go on to the group’s full 10,000-strong membership for an electronic vote in coming months. “By supporting the…
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Fast Forward London Mayor Boris Johnson Calls Israel Boycott ‘Foolish’
London Mayor Boris Johnson said in Tel Aviv that boycotting Israel is “foolish.” Johnson, of the Conservative Party, also said Monday that those who advocate such a move make up “a very small minority.” “I cannot think of anything more foolish” than to boycott “a country that when all is said and done is the…
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Forward 50 2015 Sheldon Adelson
America’s 18th richest person decided this year to oppose the campaign to boycott Israel. And Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino magnate, did it in typical style — with mountains of cash. Adelson’s anti-BDS initiative, launched in a closed-door meeting at his Venetian hotel, took community activists by surprise. Some felt sidelined and others complained…
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