Tag: BDS

  • Norway examines the ethics of its Israel investments

    Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 28 July 2009 Norway is reexamining its investments in several Israeli companies, in particular Elbit Systems. Two representatives of the Council on Ethics of the Norwegian finance ministry visited Israel at the beginning of June, in the wake of growing criticism of Israel in Norway in the months following last winter’s…

  • New Yorkers call for boycott of Motorola over dealings with IDF

    Grace Wermenbol | Ha’aretz 23 July 2009 Protesters in the New York borough of Queens held a rally last week to call for a boycott of Motorola over the firm’s business dealings with the Israel Defense Forces. At the demonstration, which was organized by the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, protestors waved…

  • Bil’in vs. Green Park

    Corporate Watch 24 July 2009 The Green Park construction company is engaged in building illegal settlements in the West Bank, notably, the settlements of Mattiyahu East and Modi’in Illit, which have been built on land annexed from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, by the Israeli apartheid wall. The village of Bil’in has been struggling against…

  • Stolen Beauty: the struggle for a just peace in the Middle East coming to a store near you

    Code Pink 21 July 2009 As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International to Physicians for Human Rights/Israel issued reports condemning Israel’s attack and alleging that the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces…

  • EU eyes exports from Israeli settlements

    Ralf Beste and Christoph Schult | BusinessWeek 14 July 2009 The Israeli settlement known as Maale Adumim sits fortress-like atop a red stone plateau. In the Bible, the road to the plateau was known as the “steep red road.” As the largest Israeli settlement in the Palestinian-administered areas of the West Bank, Maale Adumim is…