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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News Does Israel’s Anti-Boycott Law Muzzle Free Speech?
Six years ago, Neve Gordon was a prominent backer of the movement to boycott Israel due to its policies toward the Palestinians. Today, when asked whether he still supports the boycott, the Israeli professor says simply, “No comment.” Gordon has a good reason to be reticent. In mid-April, the Israeli high court largely upheld a…
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Opinion Dear Stanford: Don’t Quiz Me on BDS Because I’m Jewish
Stanford’s Molly Horwitz, running for student senate, says she faced anti-Semitic questioning I am both a woman of color and a Jew. For much of my life, I struggled to embrace these identities. In high school people told me I was “not a real Latina” while also claiming it was my Hispanic ethnicity that got…
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Music Stanford Student Slams ‘Anti-Semitic’ Question About Jewish Faith
(j weekly via JTA) — A junior at Stanford University who is running for the student senate says she faced anti-Semitic questioning from a student group whose endorsement she was seeking. During a March 13 interview in front of eight members of the university’s Students of Color Coalition, Molly Horwitz, 21, alleges that the lead interviewer…
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Fast Forward Stanford Student Senate Candidate Asked How Jewish Faith Would Inform Decisions
A candidate for the student Senate at Stanford University filed a complaint after she was asked how her Jewish faith would inform her decisions. Molly Horwitz, a junior, filed the complaint with the student elections commissioner shortly after the March 13 endorsement interview with an umbrella group on campus, the Stanford Review student newspaper reported…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fans Pressure Hungarian Rock Band To Cancel Israel Concert
Members of a Hungarian punk rock band said they would ignore pleas and anti-Semitic comments from fans who want the band to cancel its upcoming concert in Israel. The bass player of the rock band Tankcsapdara, Lukacs, said his group, which is popular in far-right circles, will travel in June to play in Tel Aviv…
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Israel News Embracing Israel Boycott, Jewish Voice For Peace Insists on Its Jewish Identity
At the opening plenary of Jewish Voice for Peace’s recent national conference, Rabbi Alissa Wise, JVP’s co-director of organizing, asked the crowd of some 600 how many were attending their first such gathering; about three-quarters of the room shot up their hands. For the group whose advocacy of boycotting, sanctioning and divesting from Israel makes…
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Fast Forward Republicans Introduce Bill Aimed at Preventing Israel Boycotts
Two Republican congressmen introduced legislation to prevent boycotts of Israel. Under the Boycott Our Enemies, Not Israel Act introduced Wednesday by Reps. Doug Lamborn of Colorado and Ron DeSantis of Florida, prospective contractors with the U.S. government would be required to certify that they are not participating in any boycotts against Israel. The bill also…
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Opinion Shame on Hillel for Shunning Civil Rights Veterans
In 1964, Queens College student Mark Levy – one of the four authors of this piece – traveled to Meridian, Mississippi with the Mississippi Freedom Summer project, registering African Americans to vote. When he tried to go to synagogue in Meridian, before he ascended the stairs outside, a representative of the synagogue came out and…
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