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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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MSCI Forces Israel Sale Harvard Campaign Failed to Bring About
By Sree Bhaktavatsalam, Christopher Condon and Gillian Wee – Sep 2, 2010 7:00 AM MSCI Inc. may have been more instrumental in changing investor behavior toward Israel than an eight-year-old divestment campaign by some Harvard and MIT academics. The index provider”s decision to move the country to a developed nations index prompted Harvard University, T. […]
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What the wall has done
Jamal Juma’, The Electronic Intifada, 31 August 2010 Israel began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed “Operation Defensive Shield.” In retrospect, the invasion appears to have been a prelude to the construction of the wall and no one recognized the significance of the […]
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Communist Party of Israel supports actors boycott
Published today (updated) 31/08/2010 19:43 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hundreds gathered Monday at the Habima National Theater in Tel Aviv to demonstrate support for its actors who are boycotting performances in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ariel. A Communist Party of Israel member, Knesset member Dov Henin, said at the rally that “the Israeli theater […]
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Israeli academics boycott West Bank settlements
31 August 2010 Last updated at 13:51 GMT New cultural centre in Ariel (30 August 2010) An arts centre in Ariel, one of the West Bank’s largest settlements, is to open in November More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In a […]
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Blue and White: Where Uri Avnery has it Wrong
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 06:49 Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Once again Uri Avnery is using his blog to criticize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Under the title “Red and Green,” Avnery comments on the long and interesting program recently broadcast on Israeli Channel 10 on the growing international isolation […]
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Boycott success in Glasgow to be rolled out across Scotland
Muslim shops ban Israeli produce in Palestine protest Boycott by Asian businesses in Glasgow’s south side Deborah Anderson Sunday Herald 29 Aug 2010 Rizwan Khan, who owns Rizwan stores on Allison Street, dumped a box of dates after being told of their origin and is supporting the boycott. He said: “I have been wary of […]
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Writers Oz, Yehoshua, Grossman back artists’ boycott of Ariel settlement
by Philip Weiss on August 30, 2010 Where are the liberal American Zionists on this one? What will J Street do? Important news: Ynet learned on Monday that prominent Israeli authors A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, David Grossman and Sami Michael are supporting a long line of actors, playwrights and artists who announced they would […]
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Israeli actors to boycott new West Bank theatre
60 actors, writers and directors argue that performing in occupied territories would legitimise illegal settlements * Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem * guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 August 2010 16.45 BST Dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and directors have signed a letter refusing to take part in productions by leading theatre companies at a new cultural centre in […]
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