Tag: Boycott Campaign
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BDS at 7! – Celebrating, reflecting and further mainstreaming
9 July 2012 | Palestinian BDS National Committee, Occupied Palestine Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious…
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Stop the Jewish National Fund greenwashing ‘Green Sunday’ February 5, 2012
27 January 2012 | Stop the JNF Campaign The Jewish National Fund has designated Sunday 5th February as ‘Green Sunday’, when it encourages people to donate money to ‘plant trees in Israel’. The JNF claims to have environmental objectives. Don’t be taken in. The JNF’s tree planting is a cover for ethnic cleansing. The JNF…
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In Palestine, to exist is to resist
by Melinda Tuhus 24 January 2012 | In These Times Behind the headlines, Palestinians are using nonviolent direct action to protest the status quo. WEST BANK, PALESTINE – On November 15, Mazin Qumsiyeh and other Palestinian activists boarded public bus number 148, an Israelis-only bus that normally takes Jews from the Israeli West Bank settlement…
