Posts Tagged ‘divestment and sanctions’

BDS is here to stay: message to a CT synagogue

Editor’s note: A few days ago Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg and Andy Schatz published an essay in the Forward revealing that they had held a groundbreaking forum on BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) at their Reform Connecticut synagogue, Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek. The August 2 event featured an argument for BDS from Jewish Voice for Peace […]

More Americans are waking up to the atrocities that israel has committed in Palestine

Americans tired of US wars for Israel Americans are supporting the international movement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel because they are sick and tired of Washington’s support for Tel Aviv, says a political commentator in Los Angeles. In an interview with Press TV on Monday, James Morris said the BDS movement “is […]

Video: Ali Abunimah on efforts to outlaw Israel boycott in US, Canada

I spoke to The Real News Network on Tuesday about Israel-lobby backed efforts to repress and legislate against the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in the United States and Canada. Watch the video above. On Monday, the Illinois House of Representatives unanimously passed a law that would force state pension funds […]

Congress and state legislatures are on the warpath against BDS

In Congress, Democrats and Republicans are trying to attach an anti-boycott bill to a mega-trade deal involving Europe and the U.S. In Tennessee and Indiana, state officials have passed a resolution criticizing the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. And in Illinois, state legislators look set to approve an anti-BDS law requiring state pensions […]

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