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Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universities
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 11 January 2010 In 2009, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, became the first American higher educational institution to successfully pressure its Board of Trustees to divest from Israel-tied mutual funds. The victory came three decades after the college similarly disinvested from funds linked to apartheid South Africa. Across North America, […]
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Press Statement By The South African Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU
STATEMENT BY SA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AND COSATU 7 January, 2010 PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED JOINTLY BY THE South African Palestine Solidarity Movement and COSATU We salute the gallant and heroic actions of over 1,400 people from around the world – especially the South African delegation – who went to Cairo to embark on the historic […]
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Moderate Jordan Picking Up Israeli Boycott
January 3, 2010 Jordan, which has signed a peace agreement with Israel, maintaining relatively open borders with Israel [albeit with restrictions] is showing its true colors, working to increase the scope of its anti-Israel boycott, seeking to halt Israeli produce from the Hashemite Kingdom. In line with the strict state policy, the Jordanian minister of […]
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Turkish demonstrators call for boycott and international isolation of Israel
A Turkish coalition protested in Istanbul on December 27, 2009, marking the anniversary of the occupation assault on Gaza, calling for the isolation and boycott of Israel. Over 500 attended the rally, supported by a wide array of leftist and labor forces, calling for a full military, commercial, economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. […]
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Scottish Government plan for ‘trade mission’ to Israel will shame Scotland!
[The visit is due to take place NEXT WEEK: 10-15 January 2010] This week Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told UN Radio: “Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what […]
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BDS campaign claims new victory against Dexia Israel
Bethlehem -Ma’an – Organizers of the Israel Colonizes – Dexia Finances campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions from Israel celebrated the recent announcement that Dexia banking group that no more loans would be approved for settlement projects. The announcement appeared in the 3 January edition of the Jerusalem Post, and according to the campaign, Dexia […]
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“No army, no prison and no wall can stop us”
Abdallah Abu Rahmah, The Electronic Intifada, 7 January 2010 Abdallah Abu Rahmah being arrested by Israeli soldiers at demonstration in Bilin in 2005. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) To all our friends, I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation?s holding cell I meet the New Year […]
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Calling Bono
Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist … in Graves and Prisons By ALISON WEIR Dear Bono, In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I”ll place my hopes on the possibility – however remote at the moment – that…people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the […]
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Winning the war for local produce in the West Bank
Rachel Shabi RAMALLAH // The cries of Hussam, the market-vendor, to buy his juicy winter “strawberries, strawberries” ring clear across the bustling street market in Ramallah. But this 25-year-old stall-keeper takes no pride in his trade. “They are from Israel,” he said, casting a gloomy eye over the gleaming pile of fruit. “Of course I […]
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