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Palestinian students cross barriers to discuss boycott
Bianca Zammit, The Electronic Intifada, 23 November 2009 The right of Palestinian students to an education was the main theme of a video conference between students from the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank on 12 November 2009, sponsored by the al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Society and Bethlehem University. The conference was […]
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Ali Abunimah: Campus BDS Conference keynote speaker
Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Campus BDS Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
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French Union CNT Joins BDS Campaign
French Union CNT Joins BDS Campaign Confederation Nationale du Travail joins BDS campaign – press release November 2009 – Through the intermediary of its international Secretary, the National Work Confederation (Confederation Nationale du Travail or CNT), a French anti-capitalist internationalist union involved in social class struggles, has joined the campaign labeled “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
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Fear of a BDS planet
It’s getting hard to keep track of Israeli press mentions of the boycott, divestment & sanctions [BDS] movement against Israel. Their frequency & tenor bespeaks a growing alarm at the BDS threat, particularly among establishment journos. To whit: Sever Plocker, Chief Economics Editor and Commentator for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest daily, in an article noting […]
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The New York Mets and the business of terrorism
Aaron Levitt, The Electronic Intifada, 20 November 2009 When I first learned that the New York Mets were hosting a fundraiser for the nonprofit Hebron Fund at Citi Field in support of the Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, I honestly assumed it was a joke, albeit a poor one. When […]
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Coalition Details Hebron Fund’s Connections to Extremism Ahead of Citi Field Fundraiser
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, November 20, 2009 – One day before the Hebron Fund’s controversial fundraising dinner at the New York Mets’ Citi Field, a coalition of civil rights and peace organizations released new details about extremist statements by individuals associated with the Hebron Fund, and about its fundraising for illegal purposes. The […]
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J Street seeks to undermine BDS
by Adam Horowitz on November 20, 2009 We”ve been following J Street”s attempts to counteract the growing BDS movement. First there was its aborted release of a public letter criticizing the Toronto Declaration. Then there was the workshop at its student conference called “Reckoning with the Radical Left on Campus: Alternatives to Boycotts and Divestments.” […]
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Beyond Compare (South Africa and Israel)
Julie Peteet, an editor of this magazine, is professor of anthropology at the University of Louisville. “Rolling into Gaza I had a feeling of homecoming,” writes the novelist Alice Walker. “There is a flavor to the ghetto. To the bantustan. To the “rez.” To the “colored section.”” In a poetic vein, Walker captures the confinement […]
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Normalization Politics on the Nile
Ursula Lindsey is a Cairo-based writer and reporter. On September 23, Farouq Husni lost a close vote for the post of head of the UN cultural and educational body, UNESCO, to the Bulgarian Irina Bokova. Husni, the sitting minister of culture in Egypt, had become the “controversial” contender for the position, his candidacy marred by […]
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Sounds and struggle: Solidarity through music
Tyler Nadeau, The Electronic Intifada, 18 November 2009 On Wednesday, 11 November, more than 200 persons packed into La Sala Rossa, a slightly operatic Montreal venue. Three sets of musicians fascinated listeners with a dance of ouds followed by a soft and multi-dimensional interplay of harp, cello, pedal steel, percussion and flute. The experience was […]
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