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Meaning of BDS | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (academic qualification to practise dentistry in the UK and most of the Commonwealth except Canada)
  2. Initialism of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
  3. Initialism of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Equivalents

Français BDS

Examples

“The BDS movement aims to pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and to respect the rights of Palestinians. The movement advocates for boycotts of Israeli products, divestment from companies operating in Israeli settlements, and sanctions against Israel.”
“In the essay, Gessen, who uses they, criticised Germany’s unequivocal support of Israel, drawing attention to the Bundestag’s 2019 resolution condemning the Israel boycott movement BDS as antisemitic and quoting a Jewish critic of Germany’s politics of Holocaust remembrance as saying memory culture had “gone haywire”.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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