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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Fast Forward Mayor of Portland, Maine, says he regrets voting to divest from Israel
The city also said it had no actual financial stakes in the companies it voted to divest from
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Fast Forward Brown University rejects pro-Palestinian protesters’ demand to divest from Israel
'Baruch Hashem,' Rabbi Josh Bolton of Brown/RISD Hillel, said after the vote
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Fast Forward Portland, Maine, City Council unanimously votes to divest from companies that do business with Israel
The mayor supported the resolution. The local Jewish federation strongly opposed it
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Israel-boycott referendum is dead after DSA declines to defend it in court
The local federation and multiple rabbis had filed legal challenges to the referendum
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish groups hope to quash a referendum that would force the city to boycott Israel
Though unlikely to make the ballot, the referendum has prompted a top staffer in the mayor’s office who supported it to resign
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Fast Forward NYC Council staffers union endorses ceasefire in Gaza, calls for divestment from Israel bonds
The council’s speaker is in discussions with members about a measure calling for an end to the Israel-Hamas war
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Culture The war comes to the Park Slope Food Coop — could it also provide the blueprint for peace?
This isn't the cooperatively-owned grocery's first schism over Israel and BDS
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Fast Forward Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood rejects calls to cancel tour with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa
'Silencing Israeli artists for being born Jewish in Israel doesn’t seem like any way to reach an understanding between the two sides of this apparently endless conflict,' Greenwood wrote
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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