Tag Archives: BDS

by Qusay Hamed, Nablus, Palestine. 13th May 2006 The term “Financial crisis” is an old/new term in the Palestinian dictionary; this occupied territory – that has scanty resources – is economically bounded with Israel. Nowadays Palestine lives a dramatic financial ...

by Benjamin Joffe-Walt. Tuesday May 30 2006. The Guardian Critics of state policies exempt from sanction Narrow vote welcomed by Palestinian groups Britain’s largest lecturers’ union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who ...

from the Globe and Mail, 27th of May 2006 OTTAWA — [The CUPE,] Ontario’s largest public sector union has voted to support an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees ...

AP article from Jerusalem Post, 24th May 2006. The Church of Scotland has called on European authorities and the World Council of Churches to clearly identify products from illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, a church official said Wednesday. The ...

From SchNEWS number 544 The remnants of Palestinian civil society, brutalized by the occupation and ongoing encirclement by the apartheid wall, is now reeling under the shock of the sudden removal of all US and EU aid. Their crime? To ...

By Tamara Traubmann, Ha’aretz, 19th May 2005 A British professor has refused a request to write an article for an academic journal funded by Israeli universities, saying that he was taking part in a boycott of Israel. “Alas, I am ...

by Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain. The Guardian, Friday May 19, 2006. The Palestine crisis is now more dramatic even than apartheid, but it is the victims who are punished. Western leaders are frustrating democratic elections in Palestine by withholding ...

Jim Carrey, who is currently visiting Israel, along with Ewan McGregor, Will Smith, and Sharon Stone, recent vistors, probably doesn’t know: At the Shifa Hospital in Gaza, dozens of kidney patients have seen their dialysis sessions cut because of dwindling ...

Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, April 22nd, 2006 Palestine activists have launched a move to get Apartheid Israel suspended from the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) in protest against the ongoing subjugation of the Palestinian people and ...

By Ha’aretz Service Sweden called off its participation in international air force exercises to take place in Italy next month because of the involvement of the Israel Air Forces in the drills. Sweden was supposed to send nine aircraft to ...