Indymedia UK, 9th of October 2006 As the Lebanese people are reeling from Israel’s illegal bombing campaign, and the people of the West Bank and Gaza are suffering a continuous onslaught by the Israeli military, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) ...
Read More »Six-hundred people attend landmark conference in Toronto
Coalition against Israeli Apartheid, October 9th Over 600 people attended the landmark conference, Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: The Struggle Continues, held from 6-8 October in Toronto, Canada. The conference represents a watershed moment in the Palestinian solidarity movement, with leading anti-apartheid ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Dates of Infamy”
from Haaretz, September 16th, by Gitit Ginat Imagine a person. He might be a man over 40 years old, married, with children. Or he might be a teenager, who until recently was in school. Now perch him on top of ...
Read More »Israeli Company Refuses to Prosecute British Protesters Over Fear of Examination of the Lawfulness of its Business in Court
Early Wednesday morning, Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco’s UK headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the occupied territories of Palestine. Protesters locked themselves inside ...
Read More »Israeli Company Blockaded in Britan For the Second Time in Bid to Gain Ruling on Illegality of Settlement Products
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Early Wednesday morning Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli company Carmel Agrexco’s British headquarters. This was part of a non-violent protest against recurrent breaches of human rights and international law in the Israeli occupied territories of Palestine. ...
Read More »Round-up of Recent Media on the Boycott of Israel from PACBI
A collection of recent press articles on the Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign from around the world. Compiled by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The links below are all to PACBI site, on ...
Read More »SABC: “Apartheid Israel worse than SA apartheid: Cosatu”
from the South African Broadcasting Corporation, July 10th The “apartheid Israel state” is worse than the apartheid that was conducted in South Africa, Willie Madisha, the Congress of SA Trade Unions president, said today. He said Palestinians were being attacked ...
Read More »CUPE President: “Slurs will not silence us”
by Sid Ryan, [Canadian] Globe & Mail, July 7th When our union recently passed a resolution critical of policies of the government of Israel, it was savagely attacked in several quarters and labelled by many as anti-Semitic. When the Toronto ...
Read More »Ynet: “Toronto church to boycott Israeli goods”
Toronto Star reports United Church of Canada’s Toronto branch to unveil boycott of Israeli products, companies doing business with its military to end what it calls ‘illegal occupation of Palestinian lands’; plan calls on Ottawa to require that products originating ...
Read More »THES: “Confront the colluders in Israel’s academy”
by Lisa Taraki, The [London] Times Higher Education Supplement, June 23, 2006. Reposted on the PACBI site. Although Menahem Milson’s career path and mine have been on a collision course, we have never met. In 1976, I joined Birzeit University ...
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