Tag: BDS

  • ISM activists protest the OECD conference in Al Quds

    This weekend the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference was held in Jerusalem, despite pressure from human rights groups for it to be held elsewhere or not at all. After their insistence on holding the conference here, ignoring Israel’s blatant violations of international law and colluding with their aspirations to claim Jerusalem as…

  • Turkey will not attend OECD conference, minister says

    12 October 2010 |ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey will not send any delegation to a biannual tourism conference in Israel later this month, the country’s culture minister said Tuesday, marking the first boycott of Israel on a multilateral level since a deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship in May. Culture and Tourism Minister…

  • PROTEST CALL: oppose the OECD’s Tourism Conference in Jerusalem October 20-22nd

    The International Solidarity Movement is calling on activists to protest in Jerusalem in the third week of October against the annual tourism conference of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) which should not be held in the occupied capital of an apartheid state in violation of a plethora of international laws. >>>>> ISRAEL…

  • Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements

    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…

  • Adalah-NY: Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction

    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 and its construction subsidiary Danya Cebus due to their construction of Israeli settlements in the…