Boycott Israeli Goods National Day of Action [UK] As the British Government continues to boycott Palestinians by refusing to recognise their democratically elected government, by joining the EU in a blockade of aid and by entertaining Israeli leader Ehud Olmert ...
Read More »Chicago Tribune: “Palestinian issue dominates Caterpillar meeting”
By James P. Miller, Tribune staff reporter, Published June 15, 2006 Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Jim Owens told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting Wednesday that because the heavy-equipment giant has “strong economic winds at our back,” prospects ...
Read More »Al Jazeera: “Israel introduces new travel restrictions”
by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank for Al Jazeera.net, Sunday 11 June 2006 Palestinian families have accused Israel of taking draconian measures, further restricting their freedom of movement. According to Palestinian human rights organisations, the new restrictions involve barring ...
Read More »Support CUPE’s Call to Boycott Israeli Apartheid
Action Alert from the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) In late May, the 200,000 member strong Ontario chapter of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) approved Resolution 50 supporting a growing global campaign initiated on July 9, 2005 by ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Sweden Labels Golan Wines: Made in Occupied Syrian Land”
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz , 8th June 2006 Sweden has started to note that wines produced in the Golan Heights originate in “Israel, occupied Syrian land,” the Golan Heights Winery has informed the Israeli Embassy in Sweden. Winery sources told ...
Read More »President of South African Trade Unions Congress: “Israel is an apartheid state”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE President Willie Madisha, the head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) yesterday issued an open letter in support of the Canadian CUPE’s recent unanimous resolution to support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and ...
Read More »Ma’ariv: Not Everyone Gets a Birthright
Original in Ma’ariv, 4th June 2006 – translation by Rann. Also included below is an article from Salon.com on the politics of the Birthright program A young American woman was denied enrty in the Zionist Birthright-Israel project, after she requested ...
Read More »Toronto Sun: “Protesting against Israeli apartheid”
By Sid Ryan, Toronto Sun. June 2, 2006 Last weekend, amid resolutions on health care, pensions, social services, education and matters of social justice, CUPE Ontario delegates attending our annual convention in Ottawa voted overwhelmingly to support a global campaign ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: “With a little help from the outside”
By Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz. 4th June 2006 The laugh of fate: The state waging a broad international campaign for a boycott is simultaneously waging a parallel campaign, no less determined, against a boycott. A boycott that seriously harms the lives ...
Read More »Ynet: “Israeli professor: UK boycott justified”
Yedioth Ahronoth, 31st May 2006. Professor Rachel Giora of the University of Tel Aviv backs boycott on her colleagues with different views; ‘I support every form of open criticism against the current policies of the Israeli government,’ she says In ...
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