Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.
black lives matter
The Latest
-
Opinion What the Movement for Black Lives Teaches Us About the Appeal of BDS
Why did the newly released Movement for Black Lives platform call Israel an “apartheid state” and accuse it of “genocide” against Palestinians? Mainstream Jews and radical activists want to debate the justice or morality of the platform, but neither group is interested in explaining how it came to be. But that means they are missing…
-
Community Black Lives Matter is Basically Right About Israel – but Very Wrong About America
This piece originally appeared at LarryDerfner.com. If describing Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians as “genocide” were the only thing wrong with the Black Lives Matter** platform, I would endorse it with a caveat over that one word, which is grossly inaccurate. Otherwise, the platform’s brief take on Israel is harsh but accurate. In fact, it…
-
News How Did Black Lives Matter Come To Charge Israel With ‘Genocide’?
Amid the nearly 40,000 words that make up the recent manifesto issued by a large coalition affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, two have raised an outcry among mainstream Jewish organizations and leaders. Those two words, in a brief section about Israel, are “apartheid” and “genocide.” The August 1 manifesto, penned by a coalition…
-
Community Black Lives Matter. And Words Do, Too.
Black lives matter. This is a statement of fundamental truth that should go without saying. Yet because of the systemic racism and violence that continues to oppress people of color in the United States and around the world on the basis of their skin color, it must be said loudly, clearly and repeatedly, without caveat….
-
Opinion Stop Being So Arrogant, White Jews. Black Lives Matter Is Not About You.
Last week, the Movement for Black Lives released a comprehensive and provocative platform called “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, and Justice.” Because of a sentence that ambiguously called for divestment from Israel, Jewish media outlets immediately declared the document A Vision for the Destruction of the Jewish State. Thankfully…
-
Breaking News Boston Protestors Call on Community Relations Group to Retract Criticism of Black Lives Matter Platform
A group of activists demanded the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council retract its recent statement criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement’s platform. According to a statement from the Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow, some 50 people gathered at the council’s Boston offices on Monday to express their support for Black Lives Matter. “We refuse to follow…
-
Opinion Black Lives Matter to U.K. Jews — Unless Israel Gets in the Way
Until now, Black Lives Matter has been seen as a U.S. movement; its website lists Toronto as its only international chapter. That all changed on Friday, as Black Lives Matter U.K. hit the headlines when, as part of a coordinated day of action, the movement blocked roads across the U.K., most notably the route to…
-
Opinion How Studying Talmud Helped Me Understand Racism in America
Every morning this summer my subway commute features roughly the same routine: Read the news and study the Talmud. From 238th street all the way to 72nd street, I am bombarded with the brutality of racism in America, and then with stories from a 1500-year-old Jewish text. Studying one page of Talmud a day, a…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
- 2
Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
- 3
News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
- 4
Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
In Case You Missed It
-
News LA fires won’t stop bar mitzvahs this Shabbat, as joy and pain meet
-
News HIAS cuts 22 staff even as it braces for Trump immigration crackdown
-
Fast Forward A synagogue that survived the Palisades fire has become a ‘refuge’ for many who lost their homes
-
News When fire spread to West Hollywood, a rabbi’s mom chose to grab candlesticks
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
