Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to pressure Israel to change its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Opinion Student protesters want universities to ‘divest’ from Israel. But how much have they actually invested?
Demands for divestment have included cutting ties with multinational giants like Google
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Fast Forward Rutgers University student governments vote overwhelmingly to divest from Israel
The student governments of two campuses also voted to push the university to end its partnership with Tel Aviv University
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Fast Forward BDS activists say they successfully pressured a college to end its Israel study-abroad program. Did they?
“Going to Israel was ‘social suicide,’” said the new director of Claremont Colleges Hillel
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Fast Forward How the war in Gaza hurt McDonald’s sales
A McDonald’s franchise donated meals to soldiers in Israel. That led to a boycott in the Arab world
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Opinion BDS has shown its true face in boycotting Standing Together
Alienating a group with record levels of joint Arab-Israeli engagement proves BDS doesn't actually care about ending the occupation
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News Only in LA: DSA councilmember who called for ceasefire wins pro-Israel backing, riling left-wing supporters
Nithya Raman, an incumbent who has called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, wins backing of pro-Israel group
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Fast Forward Israeli-Palestinian peace group Standing Together pushes back after founding member of BDS campaign calls to boycott it
Standing Together, which has gained supporters in the United States since Oct. 7, rejected the call as “infuriating” and counterproductive
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News BDS movement targets Standing Together over ‘normalization’
A wing of the international boycott movement said that Standing Together, one of the leading voices in Israel opposed to the war in Gaza, sought to 'whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide'
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Opinion The Gaza War is neither a genocide nor a mission — it’s Revisionist Zionism in action
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News Jewish president of Northwestern, under fire for making deal with protesters, is next to take hot seat in Congress
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News At Duke, pro-Israel Jewish students go ‘on the offense’
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