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 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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Fast Forward Northeastern Students Vote Against BDS Proposal
Student leaders at Northeastern University rejected a resolution that had the Boston school divesting from companies doing business with Israel. On Monday, the Student Government Association voted down the measure, with 25 senators opposed, nine in favor and 14 abstaining. The vote, which took place just before midnight, followed some two hours of passionate debate,…
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Fast Forward McGill Students Reject Israel Divestment
McGill University students rejected a divestment motion against Israel. Sunday’s vote of the Students’ Society was 276 against the nonbinding motion and 212 in favor. McGill has some 23,000 full-time undergraduate students. The motion called on the Montreal university’s administration to stop doing business with companies “contributing to the continuation and profitability of the illegal…
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Fast Forward California Push Against Anti-Semitism Spreads
Students at two University of California campuses have passed resolutions condemning anti-Semitism after incidents on two UC campuses, including the painting of swastikas on the doors of a Jewish fraternity at UC Davis. The UCLA Undergraduate Students Association unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday amid controversy over the tough grilling of a Jewish candidate for…
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Fast Forward South Africa Protests Target Israel Trade Event
Protesters shouted anti-Israel epithets and threats outside of a South African Zionist Federation event in a Johannesburg suburb. “You think this is Israel, we are going to kill you,” protesters from the Israeli Apartheid Week and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement shouted outside the Zionist Federation SA – Israel Expo in Sandton on Sunday. Other…
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