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 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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News When Anti-Israel Activist Blasts Renoir, Media Sits Up and Takes Notice
Max Geller flew to Chicago in late October to help organize two rallies: one against Israel and one against a dead French impressionist. On October 25, Geller marched with a group of 250 people outside the Jewish National Fund’s national conference. The march featured a human-sized JNF-style blue tzedakah, or charity box bearing the anti-JNF…
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Fast Forward French Grocery Giant Rejects Boycott of Israeli Products
Citing Israeli producers’ “full compliance” with French law, the Monoprix supermarket chain declined a request to boycott products from Israel. Monoprix gave its refusal in a letter it sent last week to Claudine Vegas of Toulouse, who heads the Collectif Palestine Libre (“Free Palestine Collective”) – a group that lobbies for the boycott of Israeli…
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The Schmooze A Brief History of How Roger Waters Made ‘The Wall’ Anti-Israel
(JTA) — Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters is said to have written “The Wall” in 1979 as a metaphor for his internal isolation. But in recent years, he has increasingly politicized the seminal album, particularly to criticize Israel’s polices toward the Palestinians. In an interview with Rolling Stone on Monday, Waters said the message…
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The Schmooze Why Dumbledore Wouldn’t Back BDS
Last week, J.K. Rowling joined 150 British artists, actors and politicians in opposing a cultural boycott of Israel, published in The Guardian. The network, which calls itself Culture for Coexistence, argued that continued engagement with Israel is the only way to end the cycle of violence in the region.”Cultural engagement builds bridges, nurtures freedom and…
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