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 Britain’s Labour Party Voices Objection to Israel Boycott
Britain’s Labour Party reiterated its opposition to boycotting Israel after a municipality voted to support one. The Midlands Council passed a motion earlier this week resolving to remove goods from the “Israeli Occupied Territories” and condemning Israel for “continuing to ignore and breach international law,” Jewishnews.co.uk reported Wednesday. The council is made up overwhelmingly of…
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Opinion Hillel, Don’t Take Sides On Princeton Divestment
Students walk past a statue of a former Princeton president on the school’s campus / Getty Images A faculty petition recently appeared in The Daily Princetonian calling for the university to divest from companies operating in the West Bank. The Center for Jewish Life, Princeton’s Hillel, quickly responded with a letter stating that the CJL…
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Fast Forward Boycott Israel Activists Claim Credit for SodaStream Factory Closing
The Israeli firm SodaStream, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, is closing its West Bank factory — and anti-Israel activists claimed credit for forcing the move. The company, which makes home soft drink machines, made the announcement about its Maale Adumim facility on Wednesday. It also said that its…
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Fast Forward Jewish BDS Group Protests Israeli Dance Troupe in Buenos Aires
A Jewish group affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel demonstrated outside of a performance in Buenos Aires by an Israeli dance troupe. The Los Otros Judios, or “The Other Jews,” group demonstrated outside of an auditorium in downtown Buenos Aires on Wednesday evening against the Mayumana dance troupe. Members of the…
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Fast Forward 1,350 Academics Sign Petition Opposing Boycott of Israel
More than 1,350 academics from universities and colleges from around the world have signed a petition opposing faculty or student boycotts of Israel. The online petition of the Faculty for Academic Freedom was posted on Oct. 5. “We, the undersigned academics, vigorously support free speech and free debate but we oppose faculty or student boycotts…
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Opinion Open Up Hillel to All
Judith Butler speaks at the inaugural Open Hillel conference in Boston/Photo by Gili Getz/Open Hillel (JTA) — Four rabbis are engaged in an animated debate about Jewish law. Three of them agree, but the dissenter is adamant that he’s got it right. He cries out: “A sign, God, I beg You, a sign!” It begins to…
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Israel News Jewish Professors Hit Back Against Pro-Israel Campus ‘Blacklist’
A Jewish advocacy group is warning students about 218 Middle East studies professors in colleges and universities across the country whose classes might contain “anti-Israel bias, or possibly even antisemitic rhetoric.” The AMCHA Initiative singled out the professors because, during the conflict between Israel and Hamas this past summer, they signed a petition calling for…
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Fast Forward City University of New York Graduate Students To Vote on BDS
A student group at the City University of New York is set to discuss and vote on a proposed resolution calling for a boycott of Israel. The university’s Doctoral Students’ Council advertised the proposed resolution earlier this month ahead of a meeting scheduled for the evening of Sept. 12. “The DSC hereby endorses the boycott…
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