Tag Archives: BDS

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...