Tag: BDS

  • Interview: Boycotting Israel at the Arab American University in Jenin

    Aaron Lakoff is an independent journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is currently volunteering with the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He previous reports can be found on his blog Ashraf is from Tulkarem, Palestine. He graduated from the Arab American University in Jenin (www.aauj.edu) in the summer of 2007 with…

  • Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

    From Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate. According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate…

  • Adalah-NY: New Yorkers protest Leviev’s Israeli settlements, commemorating Palestinian “Land Day”

    New York, NY, March 29 – Forty New Yorkers commemorated the Palestinian national holiday Land Day Saturday with the eighth protest at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. The protest included songs, theater and testimonials from villages threatened by Leviev’s settlements. Land Day marks Palestinians’ ties to their land, in defiance…

  • Adalah-NY: 13 organizations demand Waldorf-Astoria cancel Friends of IDF fundraiser

    TO: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY (sent by fax) SUBJ: Cancel March 18 “Friends of IDF Fundraiser” over Israeli human rights violations DATE: March 11, 2008 As thirteen organizations working for human rights, social justice, and peace, we demand that The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan rescind its agreement to host the March 18 fundraiser…

  • Ma’ariv: Leviev’s Diamonds at the Oscars

    By Gal Karniel 2/24/08 | Ma’ariv on-line (Israel) (Translation by Adalah-NY) Human rights organizations around the world warn against wearing Angolan diamonds at the Oscar ceremony. Again Leviev is in the headlines. Leviev is loaning Oscar nominees jewelry for the award ceremony tonight organized by the U.S. film academy (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…