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 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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Fast Forward Charges Dropped Against Anti-BDS ‘Blood Bucket’ Protesters
Charges against four Jewish Ohio University students for disrupting a student senate meeting with a protest against divestment reportedly have been dropped. The students – Jonah Yulish, Maxwell Peltz, Rebecca Sebo and Gabriel Sirkin – faced up to 30 days in jail and a $250 fine after being arrested on Sept. 10 for staging a…
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Israel News Hillel BDS Controversy Fails To Overshadow Inspirational Harvard Civil Rights Panel
Dorothy Zellner spoke with a rare passion about how her Jewish upbringing inspired her to join the civil rights movement in the Deep South a half-century ago. Alongside black speakers at a panel at Harvard Hillel, the on-campus center for Jewish students, marking the 50th anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom summer, Zellner explained why it…
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Israel News Harvard Hillel Hosts BDS Supporter for Panel in Apparent Break With Policy
Hillel International has given its stamp of approval to a Harvard event that included a speaker who supports the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — arguing that, in this case, the Jewish campus group’s own ban on such events doesn’t apply. Harvard University’s Hillel center for Jewish students co-sponsored last night’s panel…
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Fast Forward U. California Davis BDS Bill Tossed by Student Court
An Israel divestment resolution passed at the University of California Davis last month by the student senate was overturned on Feb. 19 by the university’s Court of Associated Students. The court ruled 5-0 with one abstention in favor of Jonathan Mitchell, who had filed a case with the court contending that the Associated Students U.C….
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