• Organize for boycott Israel day of action

    Appeal, Secretariat of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, 19 February 2009 In December 2008, Israel decided to mark the 60th anniversary of its existence the same way it had established itself — perpetrating massacres against the Palestinian people. In 23 days, Israel killed more than 1,300 and injured at least 5,000 Palestinians […]

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  • Global boycott movement marks its successes

    Jeff Handmaker, The Electronic Intifada, 20 February 2009 Responding to the many calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, solidarity movements around the world have marked many successes. It is important for human rights advocates to build on this momentum and seize the opportunity to do what is within their power to try […]

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  • Victory for student movement: Strathclyde University to end complicity with Gaza conflict

    A vibrant and wonderful student movement has flowered a the Strathclyde University which has scored two major victories for peace and justice within this month. We at PULSE salute all the students, in particular Strathclyde Stop the War, Action Palestine, and the Strathclyde University Muslim Students Association (SUMSA) for their indispensable work. In today”s excellent […]

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  • Take Back NYU’s demands

    At the heart of the occupation is a list of 13 demands that Take Back NYU has outlined on their website. (The number 13 is in reference to the 1,300 killed in Gaza, according to CAS senior Bamu Quadir.) While several members of the occupation have said their list of demands is negotiable, the following […]

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  • Hampshire students defend their victory

    Gary Lapon reports that pro-Israel apologists are putting pressure on Hampshire College to back away from its historic divestment decision. February 20, 2009 UNDER PRESSURE from pro-Israel apologists led by Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, administrators at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., issued a “statement of clarification” about the recent decision to divest from six […]

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  • Official Statement from Take Back NYU!

    Feb 21st, 2009 by Take Back NYU! Take Back the Balcony!, Thursday night, Bob Burdalski From 10 pm on February 18th 2009 to 2 pm on February 20th, students of Take Back NYU! occupied the Kimmel Center for University Life in a historic effort to bring pressure on NYU for its administrative and ethical failings […]

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  • California State University, Long Beach Student Resolution

    A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF: A Call for the Immediate End to the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and a Boycott of goods and services that maintain business relations with Israel. Whereas from December 27, 2008 to January 22, 2009 attacks launched by the Israeli government on Gaza have resulted in over 1,300 deaths and 5,300 […]

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  • Apartheid Week Trailer

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  • Significance of Dockworkers’ Refusal to Offload Israeli Cargo

    Report by Azad Essa Published here: 15/02/09 11 February, 2009 countercurrents.org When COSATU and its affiliate SATAWU made it clear that their dockworkers would not be offloading the Johanna Russ, in palpable solidarity with the Palestinian people last week, a largely irrelevant port in the Southern tip of Africa called Durban was making history across […]

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  • Support this worldwide Divestment and Boycott Campaign Against Israel and Apartheid” appeals Palestinian Labor Leader in SF Speech

    Monday, 16 February 2009 “We actually don’t have any other way to exercise international pressure except calling our friends and supporters in the trade unions around the globe to call for this Boycott and Divestment.” stated Manawel Issa Abdellal, member of the Executive Committee of the 250 thousand member Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions […]

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