Tag: BDS

  • Ynet: “Israeli professor: UK boycott justified”

    Yedioth Ahronoth, 31st May 2006. Professor Rachel Giora of the University of Tel Aviv backs boycott on her colleagues with different views; ‘I support every form of open criticism against the current policies of the Israeli government,’ she says In a special interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, Professor Rachel Giora of Tel Aviv University gives her…

  • The impact of the financial crisis on the Palestinian community

    by Qusay Hamed, Nablus, Palestine. 13th May 2006 The term “Financial crisis” is an old/new term in the Palestinian dictionary; this occupied territory – that has scanty resources – is economically bounded with Israel. Nowadays Palestine lives a dramatic financial crisis that is considered one of the worst in the nation’s history. Palestinians have been…

  • Guardian: “[British] Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics”

    by Benjamin Joffe-Walt. Tuesday May 30 2006. The Guardian Critics of state policies exempt from sanction Narrow vote welcomed by Palestinian groups Britain’s largest lecturers’ union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel’s “apartheid policies”. Delegates at the annual conference of…

  • Globe & Mail: “Canadian Union Supports Campaign Against Israel”

    from the Globe and Mail, 27th of May 2006 OTTAWA — [The CUPE,] Ontario’s largest public sector union has voted to support an international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees convention in voted overwhelmingly Saturday to support the campaign until Israel recognizes the Palestinian right…

  • AP: “Church of Scotland: label settlement products”

    AP article from Jerusalem Post, 24th May 2006. The Church of Scotland has called on European authorities and the World Council of Churches to clearly identify products from illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands, a church official said Wednesday. The decision by the church’s General Assembly, meeting in Edinburgh, came after delegates were informed that…