This is the Forward’s coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.
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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…
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News Explainer: Does the Black Lives Matter Platform Single Out Israel?
A recent Black Lives Matter platform described Israel as “an apartheid state” committing “genocide,” drawing fire from Jews across the spectrum. “The US justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people,” the statement reads. Does it really single…
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News Amidst ‘Apartheid’ Controversy, Some Jews Stand Firm with Black Lives Matter
Left-wing Jewish groups and individuals are embracing Black Lives Matter in response to a new platform associated with the Black Lives Matter movement that calls for divestment from Israel — and also describes the country as an “apartheid state” committing “genocide” against the Palestinian people. Jewish Voice for Peace said the group “endorses the Movement…
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Opinion Don’t Like Black Lives Matter? Get Ready To Lose Young Jews Like Us.
Two days after the Movement for Black Lives — a coalition of more than 50 racial justice organizations from across the country — released its detailed, visionary policy platform, the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council released a statement to “disassociate from the Black Lives Matter platform and those BLM organizations that embrace it.” As members…
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Opinion Black Lives Matter Lost Me With That Israel-Bashing Platform
Why has Black Lives Matter let itself be co-opted? Black Lives Matter put out a policy platform this week, with demands for reforms in six areas, with specific policy proposals on the state and federal levels. It’s good that the leadership is moving from slogans and rallies to tangible policy, and there are many good…
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Fast Forward Rabbis’ Human Rights Group Criticizes Black Lives Matter For Israel ‘Genocide’ Accusation
NEW YORK — A rabbinic human rights group has criticized the platform of the Black Lives Matter movement for accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians. The platform, published Monday by a coalition of more than 50 organizations called the Movement for Black Lives, includes a section criticizing United States aid to Israel, as well…
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News Jewish Allies Condemn Black Lives Matter’s ‘Apartheid’ Platform
A new platform associated with the Black Lives Matter movement that describes Israel as an “apartheid state” committing “genocide” against the Palestinian people has triggered critical responses from Jewish organizations — even its allies. “[We] are extremely dismayed at the decision to refer to the Israeli occupation as genocide,” a statement from T’ruah: The Rabbinic…
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Fast Forward Black Lives Matter Platform Says Israel An ‘Apartheid State’ Committing ‘Genocide’
— The wide-ranging new platform of a coalition growing out of the Black Lives Matter movement includes harsh criticism of Israel, which it describes as an “apartheid state” that, it claims, perpetrates “genocide” against the Palestinian people. Released Monday, the platform of the Movement for Black Lives calls for “an end to the war against Black people”…
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