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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Culture In Angouleme, Israeli Cartoonists Talk About Charlie Hebdo — And BDS
The International Comics Festival opens this weekend in Angouleme, France. Just like last year, SodaStream is one of backers of the festival. And once again, another petition to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel has popped up, calling on the festival’s organizers to refuse any funding and cooperation with Israeli companies. Last year, BDS’s main…
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Fast Forward American Historical Association Rejects Push for Anti-Israel Votes
Anti-Israel resolutions presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association were not voted on after members rejected a vote to suspend the group’s bylaws. The resolutions were submitted to the American Historical Association, or AHA, by the independent group Historians Against the War. However, business meeting agenda items were supposed to be submitted…
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Fast Forward British Battle Israel Boycott With Holiday Food Giveaway
More than 1,000 people in Great Britain donated food and other goods made in Israel to homeless shelters. IsrAction Day, which was held Sunday, called on shoppers to purchase food and goods made in Israel to counter boycott initiatives, and then to donate them. The initiative was organized by Sussex Friends of Israel in Brighton…
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Fast Forward Harvard Stops Buying SodaStream Amid Protests
Harvard University Dining Service has halted purchases of SodaStream equipment, after Palestinian students and their supporters protested. The dining service had been purchasing water machines from a company acquired by the Israeli company SodaStream, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement due to its factory located in Maale Adumim, a…
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Opinion Why We Lost to BDS and 3 Ways To Win Next Time
Getty Images On December 10, UAW 2865, the union representing 13,000 University of California graduate student workers, announced that a resolution to align with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel had passed a membership vote. This is the first American union to join the BDS movement, and the outcome is deeply upsetting…
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Israel News Anti-BDS Professors Launch Push To Ban 4 Far Right Israeli Leaders
A nascent group of well-known academics is calling on the U.S. government and European Union to impose personal sanctions on four prominent Israelis “who lead efforts to insure permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank and to annex all or parts of it unilaterally in violation of international law.” Scholars for Israel and Palestine (SIP)…
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Fast Forward Anthropologists Won’t Oppose Israel Boycott
The American Anthropological Association rejected a proposed resolution that would oppose the academic boycott of Israel. The association, an organization of 12,000 scholars and practitioners, voted on the motion Friday at its annual business meeting, which had 700 attendees. Just 52 participants voted in favor of the resolution and the no votes were not tabulated…
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Opinion Why I’m (Reluctantly) Voting Against BDS at Berkeley
Pro-Palestinian demonstrator argues with pro-Israeli demonstrator at UC Berkeley / Getty Images On Thursday, my union as a graduate student at Berkeley, UAW 2865, is going to vote on a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) resolution against Israel. I’m going to vote “no,” although I oppose the occupation and support selective, non-BDS branded boycotts targeting the…
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