Tag: Boycott Campaign

  • Why boycott Israel?

    13 August 2011 | Al Jazeera English, Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement. Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Mark…

  • For human rights advocates, boycotting Israel is a no-brainer

    29 July 2011 | The Daily Star, Nadia Hijab Making the Palestinian case has never been a problem. It is a powerful story grounded in universal principles of human rights and in international law. The question has always been how to shift the balance between one of the strongest military powers in the world and…

  • Before and after September: The struggle for Palestinian rights must intensify

    1 June 2011 | Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) warmly salutes the Nakba commemoration mass Palestinian marches on 15 May which rekindled a unique spirit of resistance, real hope and heroic initiative in the struggle for the…

  • Bill to punish anti-Israel boycotters passes first Knesset hurdle

    09 March 2011 | Haaretz According to proposal, Israelis would face harsh punitive measures for such actions; controversial bill also calls for imposing sanctions on foreign nationals and groups and on states that give boycotts force of law. The Knesset plenum on Monday approved in its first reading a “boycott law,” which would levy harsh…

  • PROTEST CALL: oppose the OECD’s Tourism Conference in Jerusalem October 20-22nd

    The International Solidarity Movement is calling on activists to protest in Jerusalem in the third week of October against the annual tourism conference of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) which should not be held in the occupied capital of an apartheid state in violation of a plethora of international laws. >>>>> ISRAEL…