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Arch Enemy: Stand with Revolution not Apartheid
PACBI | November 30, 2011 It is with great disappointment that the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has learned of your scheduled performance in Israel set for January 24, 2012 [1]. Given that Israel is involved in grave violations of international law and human rights we urge you to […]
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218 sign call for a Swedish academic boycott of Israel
The following press release announcing a broad Swedish call for the Academic Boycott of Israel, was created by the KTH action group for boycott: Press release 2 October 2011 Swedish universities must not participate in research or any other type of cooperation with Israeli academic institutions. The Swedish government should act for the cessation of […]
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Action Alert: Tweet to Roxette: Don’t Entertain Apartheid!
Ask the Swedish pop duo Roxette to honor the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel by cancelling its October 22 concert in Tel Aviv! Join Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) organizers in Sweden and Palestine who have called on the band to refuse to entertain apartheid. Tweet your message to Roxette or post it […]
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Inauguration of H&M apartheid store
On 26 August 2010, H&M opened its fourth store in the apartheid state of Israel. To mark the occasion, BDS activists in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 8 September protested outside the local H&M flagship store. The protest theme was a satirical inauguration of the new apartheid store, with an inaugural speech, ribbon cutting ceremony, question competition, […]
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H&M will report price tag action to the police
Coup against H&M will be reported to the police 9 September 2010 [original report in Swedish] Criticized for establishment in Israel – Price tag calls for boycott HELSINGBORG. H&M is criticized for the decision to open stores in Israel and has been exposed to a coup on the clothing price tags, on which consumers are […]
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H&M Protests in Sweden on August 18th and 28th
On August 18th and 28th there were protests in Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden, against H&M”s continued establishment in Israel. Activists handed out flyers to customers and informed about H&M”s investment in an apartheid state – Kfar Saba is the fourth H&M store opened in Israel this year – and how it contradicts the global BDS […]
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IKEA’s answer to the 12 August open letter
Statement from IKEA on 23 August 2010 IKEA® is for the many, respecting individuals with different views and opinions. IKEA® stands neutral on political, religious or ethnical views. It is unthinkable for us to exclude any individual or group of individuals from being an IKEA® customer. We welcome all people to the IKEA® stores, independent […]
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IKEA, international law outweighs local laws and rules
Statement by the Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden Original statement in Swedish Open letter to IKEA: On 23 June, Swedish Radio revealed that IKEA Israel delivers goods to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. By delivering furniture to settlements, IKEA contributes to legitimising and upholding the settlements, which according to a unanimous international opinion […]
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Call for action: Protest on August 18th and 26th against H&M
H&M is doing it again! H&M”s establishment in Israel is continuing. A new men”s department is opening in H&M”s store in Haifa on the 18th of August and on the 26th of August they are opening their fourth store, this time in Kfar Saba. Despite worldwide criticism and Israel”s continued ignorance of international law. In […]
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(BDS) Yosef Daher, Jerusalem Inter-church Centre: “To resist the sin, to resist the occupation”
Yosef Daher: “We call our brothers and sisters abroad and the other chuches to go for boycott. Personally and individually, and then convencing the churches, and the churches to convence their governments..” Yosef Daher / Yusef Daher is the coordinator of the Jerusalem Inter-church Centre, a WCC project in Jerusalem Please note in the clip […]
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