Tag: BDS

  • Haaretz: “Sweden Labels Golan Wines: Made in Occupied Syrian Land”

    By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz , 8th June 2006 Sweden has started to note that wines produced in the Golan Heights originate in “Israel, occupied Syrian land,” the Golan Heights Winery has informed the Israeli Embassy in Sweden. Winery sources told Haaretz that the step is unprecedented and worrisome. The embassy is investigating claims that the…

  • President of South African Trade Unions Congress: “Israel is an apartheid state”

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE President Willie Madisha, the head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) yesterday issued an open letter in support of the Canadian CUPE’s recent unanimous resolution to support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is a blow against those apologists of Israeli policy who try…

  • Ma’ariv: Not Everyone Gets a Birthright

    Original in Ma’ariv, 4th June 2006 – translation by Rann. Also included below is an article from Salon.com on the politics of the Birthright program A young American woman was denied enrty in the Zionist Birthright-Israel project, after she requested a tour of refugee camps and villages in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by Eli Bradnestein…

  • Toronto Sun: “Protesting against Israeli apartheid”

    By Sid Ryan, Toronto Sun. June 2, 2006 Last weekend, amid resolutions on health care, pensions, social services, education and matters of social justice, CUPE Ontario delegates attending our annual convention in Ottawa voted overwhelmingly to support a global campaign against Israel’s apartheid-like policies until that state recognizes “the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination.”…

  • Ha’aretz: “With a little help from the outside”

    By Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz. 4th June 2006 The laugh of fate: The state waging a broad international campaign for a boycott is simultaneously waging a parallel campaign, no less determined, against a boycott. A boycott that seriously harms the lives of millions of people is legitimate in its eyes because it is directed against those…