22 February 2011 | Adalah-NY February 22 – Seventy New Yorkers protested the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s (IPO) performance at Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening, using chants, songs and street theater to highlight the IPO’s role in whitewashing Israel’s apartheid policies against ...
Read More »Adalah-NY: Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction
Adalah-NY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 ...
Read More »A message of non-violent resistance from within Israeli prison
Majida Abu Rahmah | The Huffington Post 9 January 2010 On Tuesday, January 5, I attended the trial of my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah in an Israeli military detention camp. Ofer Military Base is a dark and dehumanizing place, but ...
Read More »Abdallah Abu Rahmah: No army, no prison and no wall can stop us
Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah January 6, 2010 To all our friends, I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and ...
Read More »New York carolers sing for boycott of Leviev while Israel jails protesters’ Palestinian allies
Adalah-NY 19 December 2009 For immediate release: New York, NY, December 19, 2009 – On a snowy Saturday afternoon, forty-five human rights carolers serenaded Madison Avenue shoppers with familiar holiday tunes outside the storefront of Israeli diamond and settlement mogul ...
Read More »A portrait of nonviolent resistance in one Palestinian village
Ellen Cantarow | Huffington Post 8 December 2009 At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction of “the wall,” begun in ...
Read More »Adalah-NY: At Leviev Store, Protesters Tell Business Leaders “No Business as Usual with Apartheid Israel”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.adalahny.org Media Contact: info@adalahny.org New York, NY, December 4, 2009 – 25 New York City human rights advocates caught the Israel Business Leaders Delegation to the United States by surprise this morning with a noisy protest outside ...
Read More »New York protest against detention without trial of Palestinian BDS activist
Adalah NY 17 October 2009 On Saturday forty New York human rights advocates rallied on a cold fall day at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist ...
Read More »Spain excludes settlement university from academic competition
Global BDS Movement 20 September 2009 The “University Center of Ariel in Samaria” (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, ...
Read More »Palestinian-led movement to boycott Israel is gaining support
Gal Beckerman | Forward 16 September 2009 Uzbekistan-born diamond mogul Lev Leviev announced late in August that his company, Africa-Israel, was drowning in debt of more than $5.5 billion that it could not repay. Over the next two days, shares ...
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