Tag: BDS

  • Ha’aretz: “Sweden boycotts air force drills due to Israel’s participation”

    By Ha’aretz Service Sweden called off its participation in international air force exercises to take place in Italy next month because of the involvement of the Israel Air Forces in the drills. Sweden was supposed to send nine aircraft to Italy for Volcanex 2006. “Israel is not currently acting in the name of peace, and…

  • Sir Gerald Kaufman MP: Israel “would be a rogue government” if Refuses to Prosecute Killer Soldiers

    We Cannot Allow These Murders to Go Unpunished We can demand these homicidal Israeli soldiers be prosecuted for war crimes by Sir Gerald Kaufman MP http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0412-26.htm In a marvellous book of essays, “The Slopes of Lebanon,” the great Israeli novelist Amos Oz advanced an audacious thesis. He contended that the slaughter of six million Jews…

  • British Politician Calls for Sanctions Against Israel

    Sir Gerald Kaufman, a leading British Member of Parliment has called for sanctions against Israel, and accused elements in the IDF as being ‘out of control.’ He was speaking on the influential BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ program. Kaufman has made similar charges before, and has been labelled ‘a self-hating Jew’ by the Board of Deputies…

  • MP’s call for sanctions against Israel over shootings

    From The Telegraph Economic sanctions against Israel should be considered if the country refuses to put its soldiers before the courts in the UK over the death of two British peace activists, an MP has said. Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour MP for Manchester Gorton, claimed there was an element in the Israeli military which was…

  • South African Unions Rally for Palestine

    Printed in Morning Star Monday, March 13 by Richard Bagley Top South African Trade Unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday. Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at TUC Congress House, the COSATU president declared that South Africa’s apartheid policies had been ‘a…