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Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements

Posted on: September 1, 2010 |

31 August 2010 | BBC News

More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of actors and others not to take part in cultural activity there.

The academics said that acceptance of the settlements caused “critical” damage to Israel’s chances of achieving peace with the Palestinians.

The actors were criticised for refusing to perform at a new cultural centre.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the last thing Israel needed as it resumed direct peace talks was … Continue reading

Updated on September 1, 2010
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Adalah-NY: Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction

Posted on: August 23, 2010 |
Adalah-NY: Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction

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New York, NY – In a major victory for the international movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, the Norwegian government announced today that it has divested from Lev Leviev’s company Africa Israel Investments and its construction subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The move followed a campaign of more than a year by affected Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous and by Norwegian, Palestinian, Israeli, and international activist … Continue reading

Updated on August 23, 2010
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PACBI: A million dollar festival will not rescue Israel’s image as an apartheid state

Posted on: August 17, 2010 |

17 August 2010 | PACBI

Occupied Ramallah, 15 August  2010

Once again, the Brand-Israel machine is in high gear, this time organizing a million-dollar international youth extravaganza in Eilat in September 2010 called “Funjoya.”  This unabashed propaganda exercise is sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Tourism and the Israeli Student Union, among other official and semi-official bodies.  The Ministry of Tourism explains one of the aims of the festival: “branding Israel as an attractive tourism destination for students, an improvement in Israel’s image among this target group and facilitating multi-cultural encounters for students from Israel and European countries.”

There is … Continue reading

Updated on August 17, 2010
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BDS court victory in London: ‘Ahava four’ found not guilty of trespass in Israeli store

Posted on: August 11, 2010 |
BDS court victory in London: 'Ahava four' found not guilty of trespass in Israeli store

11 August 2010 | ISM London

Four campaigners against Israeli apartheid were acquitted yesterday (August 10th) of all charges related to two direct action protests against the Israeli cosmetics retailer Ahava in Covent Garden, London. The campaigners locked themselves onto concrete-filled oil drums inside the shop, closing it down for two days in September and December of 2009.

The campaigners insist that they are legally justified in their actions as the shop’s activities are unlawful. All cosmetics on sale in the shop originate from Mitzpe Shalem, an illegal … Continue reading

Updated on August 11, 2010
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To Know is Not Enough: How Hampshire became the First to Divest

Posted on: August 10, 2010 |

Hampshire College is often credited with being the first US college to divest for the occupation, and this video attempts to understand the group and the campaign that made it happen. The video is constructed from interviews with over a dozen student activists from Hampshire College’s Students for Justice in Palestine.

“To Know is Not Enough” is a video by Will Delphia, a film and social science student at Hampshire College.

Hampshire College is a small liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts. Hampshire was started in the early 1970s to be a new sort of experiment in non-traditional education emphasizing … Continue reading

Updated on August 10, 2010
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Desmond Tutu backs U.S food co-op boycott of Israeli products

Posted on: July 30, 2010 |
Desmond Tutu backs U.S food co-op boycott of Israeli products

30 July 2010 | Ha’aretz

South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie’s hometown of Olympia, Washington

South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that he supports the Olympia Food Co-op’s boycott of Israeli products…. Continue reading

Updated on July 30, 2010
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Food co-op in Rachel Corrie’s hometown boycotts Israeli goods

Posted on: July 20, 2010 |

Natasha Mozgovaya | Ha’aretz

20 July 2010

Americans are far more supportive of Israel than Europeans, and most initiatives to boycott Israeli goods or to divest funds from companies working with Israel are unsuccessful in the United States.

But such projects have recently become more widespread, especially among students – although most divestment decisions by student bodies are not implemented on the colleges’ management levels.

Last week, the board of directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Washington state decided that no more Israeli products will be sold at its two grocery stores in the city.

“We met last Thursday for the board members … Continue reading

Updated on July 22, 2010
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Activists disrupt Caterpillar shareholder meeting

Posted on: June 11, 2010 |

Kristin Szremski | The Electronic Intifada

11 June 2010

While pro-Palestinian activists and supporters of Israel lined opposite sides of South LaSalle Street outside the Northern Trust Building in Chicago on 9 June, James Owens, the outgoing CEO and Chairman of Caterpillar Inc., told a room full of shareholders the company was not responsible for the way Israel uses the bulldozers the company manufactures in the United States.

Owens made his remarks at the end of the annual shareholders meeting, which had been disrupted 14 times by individual protestors who stood up one by one and loudly proclaimed that the Israeli … Continue reading

Updated on June 11, 2010
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Towards Ending our Ongoing Nakba: Statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)

Posted on: May 20, 2010 |

International Solidarity Movement

20 May 2010

17 May 2010 — For sixty-two years, Palestinians have been denied their dignity and fundamental human rights. The creation and “international” acceptance of Israel in 1948 marked the culmination of a new kind of politics in the region that continues to have devastating consequences. The acceptance of an ethnic Jewish state over the ruins of Palestinian society in a historically pluralistic region meant that indigenous Palestinians were automatically considered superfluous in the land they had inhabited for many generations. Emboldened by external support, Israel carried out its well planned campaign of mass scale ethnic cleansing, dispossessing … Continue reading

Updated on May 20, 2010
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Join the Global Intifada

Posted on: May 20, 2010 |
Join the Global Intifada

International Solidarity Movement

20 May 2010

Global Intifada 2010: Popular Struggle. Steadfastness. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.

Popular resistance to Israel’s apartheid is growing globally! In Palestine, non-violent resistance to land confiscation and settlement expansion is gathering momentum.

Weekly non-violent demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza have tripled since January, and continue to increase in size and number. The tents are standing strong in Jerusalem’s threatened communities of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, and resistance to settler attacks and land grabs in the Jordan … Continue reading

Updated on May 27, 2010
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