Tag: BDS

  • Al Arabiya: Hollywood stars shun pro-Israeli diamond store

    To view original article, published by Al Arabiya News Channel on the 1st January, click here (Arabic version here) Hollywood stars have called for their pictures to be removed from the website of a diamond company that is associated with settlement expansion in Israel and human rights violations in Africa. The diamond stores owned by…

  • BNC: “Stop the massacre in Gaza – Boycott Israel now!”

    Press release from the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Occupied Ramallah, Palestine – 27 December 2008: Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when…

  • LA Times Blogs: Dubai – Politics and AIDS at film festival

    By Raed Rafei in Beirut To view original blog, published by the Los Angeles Times on the 16th December, click here Movies aren’t the only point of attraction at this year’s Dubai Film Festival. In addition to being a venue for glamorous stars, the festival, which opened last week, has quickly become a platform for…

  • ISM London: Protest outside Leviev store on Old Bond Street, London

    To view the ISM London website click here On Saturday 13th December a number of ISM activists braved the rain and cold, took to the streets and voiced their opposition to Lev Leviev and his blood diamonds which finance the illegal Israeli settlement expansion into the Palestinian territories. Located on the upmarket Old Bond Street…

  • Gulf News: Call to boycott Israeli jeweller

    By Abbas Al Lawati To view original article, published by Gulf News on the 14th December, click here Dubai: Activists campaigning against Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev urged Dubai residents to boycott the jeweller during the screening of a documentary film on activist hip hop at the Dubai Film Festival on Friday. Forty T-shirts and…