Tag: BDS

  • Did Leviev’s empire succumb to boycott?

    Alternative Information Center (AIC) 2 September 2009 On 31 August 2009, Lev Leviev, the sixth richest Israeli according to Forbes Magazine, convened a press conference and announced that his company Africa Israel will be unable to meet its financial obligations and repay its debts on time. Leviev’s debt is estimated at nearly Euro 1.4 billion.…

  • Norway divests from Israel defense firm over ties to West Bank fence

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 3 September 2009 The Norwegian government has decided to pull all of its investments from Israeli arms firm Elbit as a result of it involvement in the construction of the West Bank separation fence, the Norwegian Finance Minister announced on Thursday. Kristin Halvorsen, speaking at a Oslo press conference, said that…

  • Naomi Klein shows you can boycott Israel without cutting off dialogue over Palestine

    Cecilie Surasky | AlterNet 1 September 2009 Few global-justice campaigns are more polarizing, even explosive, than the effort to use international boycotts, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its 42-year occupation of the Palestinian territories. Just ask Neve Gordon. Recently, Gordon, head of the political science department at Ben-Gurion University and a longtime…

  • Investment giant BlackRock divests from Leviev’s Africa-Israel due to Israeli settlements

    Adalah-NY 25 August 2009 In another stunning blow to Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev, the Israeli business magazine Globes Online has reported that BlackRock Inc., one of the world’s largest investment management firms, has divested from Leviev’s Africa-Israel Investments. The Globes article follows a similar report by the Norwegian news service Norwatch. The move comes after…

  • Derailing injustice: Palestinian civil resistance to the “Jerusalem Light Rail”

    Omar Barghoutti | Jerusalem Quarterly 25 August 2009 “I believe that this [Jerusalem Light Rail] should be done, and in any event, anything that can be done to strengthen Jerusalem, construct it, expand it and sustain it for eternity as the capital of the Jewish people and the united capital of the State of Israel,…