Welcome to 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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The Schmooze Rolling Stones Israel Show a Purim Hoax
Rolling Stones fans learned that you can’t always get what you want, when a story in the Jewish Press about the band’s planned tour to Israel was revealed to be a Purim hoax. For a while there, Holy Land Stones fans were excited about the prospect of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie…
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Fast Forward Oxford Student Union Rejects Boycott Israel Motion
A motion calling for blanket sanctions against Israel was rejected by the Oxford University Students’ Union. According to the website of Britain’s Union of Jewish Students, the OUSU measure calling for the Oxford student union to boycott Israeli institutions, goods and produce lost by a vote of 69-10, with 15 absentions. “It’s encouraging to see…
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Opinion The Wrong Way To Fight BDS
Is censoring disagreeable speech ever a good idea? A porn star and an aging Jewish icon seem to think so. Both men, Michael Lucas and Abraham Foxman, have recently opined that speech in favor of “BDS” — boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel — is hate speech and should be banned from Jewish, LGBT, and…
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Opinion BDS Is Not the Answer
As it transpired, the brouhaha surrounding Brooklyn College’s BDS event was a good deal of hullabaloo over not a lot. Roughly 300 people turned up to listen to Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti speak about the need to boycott and divest from Israel, while outside the hall 150 protested either in favour of or against…
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Opinion Is BDS Hate Speech?
When the national director of the Anti-Defamation League takes out a large advertisement in the print edition of The New York Times, you kind of have to take notice. Given the cost of such an ad (surely more than one in the Forward!), the February 7 statement by Abraham Foxman signals that his organization believes…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn College To Probe Claims Jews Were Kicked Out of Boycott Israel Panel
Brooklyn College launched a probe into allegations that Jewish students were wrongly ejected from an event hosted by the school in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Karen Gould, the college’s president, on Wednesday ordered officials to conduct a “thorough independent review” of allegations that four members of the Jewish student group…
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Israel News Boycott Israel Push Against SodaStream Could Hurt Palestinian Workers
For proponents of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, SodaStream would appear to be a straightforward target. The Israeli company, which sells a popular kitchen gadget that turns tap water into carbonated drinks, has a large factory in a West Bank settlement. When SodaStream announced that it would run an ad during the Super Bowl, the…
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Fast Forward Controversial BDS Panel Draws Crowds at Brooklyn College
Protesters and panel attendees turned out in large numbers at the Brooklyn College BDS panel. Roughly 300 attendees came to listen to the discussion of the movement to impose boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israel. Outside, 150 counter protesters chanted in the cold on the public college’s campus, according to one report. The event, co-sponsored…
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