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PRIORITY CALL FOR PHYSICIANS WORLDWIDE TO SIGN OPEN LETTER TO WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION RE THEIR NEW PRESIDENT YORAM BLACHAR
Dear colleagues, We need your support for a potentially influential open letter of protest regarding the inauguration last November of Dr Yoram Blachar, longstanding President of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), as President of the World Medical Association (WMA). The WMA is the official body tasked with overseeing the ethical behaviour of doctors worldwide. For […]
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Hundreds of Catalan Organizations and Academics Call for Boycott of Israel
Posted by OPGAI on Mon, 02/02/2009 – 09:23 (Read the Statement in Catalan) — The Israeli occupation army is committing a new massacre in Gaza. At the moment the result of this new act of barbarism has produced five hundred Palestinian deaths, a lot of them unarmed civil population. This last bloodbath, although being the […]
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No Dancing on Gaza’s Graves – Boycott and Protest Batsheva Dance Company
WRITTEN BY Michelle J. Kinnucan An Israeli apartheid dance troupe started its North America tour in Houston on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Between then and March 1, 2009 it will go to fourteen more American and Canadian cities. That troupe, the Batsheva Dance Company, is currently scheduled to perform in Purchase, NY on January 30-31 […]
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UC San Diego Department of Ethnic Studies Statement
Commentaries We welcome all thoughtful, informed and reasoned comments to our departmental statements. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Regents of the University of California or the University of California, San Diego. Please post your comments on our blog: http://ethnicstudiesucsd.wordpress.com/ UCSD Ethnic Studies Department Statement on the Racial Violence […]
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NEW NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF AMERICAN JEWS ISSUES
February 1, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STATEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL’S WAR ON PALESTINE American Jews for a Just Peace, a new alliance of progressive and predominantly Jewish activists working in the United States working to ensure equal rights, safety, and dignity for all the people of historic Palestine, today issued the following statement: Israel’s recent War […]
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Pro-Palestinian groups call boycott on Israel
BELEM, Brazil (AFP) – Pro-Palestinian groups meeting at the World Social Forum that ended Sunday launched a call for a worldwide boycott of Israel and a day of action on March 30. “This is not intended to be an anti-Semitic action. It’s a call against the apartheid that Israel is practising,” said one of the […]
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Letter from the President of Islamic University of Gaza
Islamic University – Gaza ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Press Release “Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?” Imagine: your university is bombarded with tons of explosives!! On Saturday December 27th, 2008, the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) was ready to start the final exams of the fall semester for more than 20,000 students. […]
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Islamic University of Gaza was bombed
A video made this week by university students at the Islamic University of Gaza, which was bombed with American-made missiles and bombs.
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Jerusalem’s Al-Quds University to cut ties with Israeli academia
Date: 01 / 02 / 2009 Time: 19:18 | Ma’an News Al-Quds University will cease all forms of academic cooperation with Israeli academic institutions soon, the school”s board determined on Sunday. “In cooperation with all sides and under an accepted timetable,” the university will phase out programs and cooperation, the university board said in a […]
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Georgetown Faculty Statement
15 January 2009 We, the undersigned “Faculty for Gaza,” voice our outrage at the scale and nature of Israel”s military aggression since 27 December 2008 against the Palestinians in Gaza, and at Israel”s gross disregard for the dual principles of proportionality and distinction that are central to International Humanitarian Law. We decry Israel”s massacre of […]
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