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Palestinian Civil Society Calls on Arab States to Boycott Veolia and Alstom
Jerusalem Press Conference: Time: Monday, 16 November 2009, 10:00 am Place: Mount Scopus Hotel in Jerusalem The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)* invites you to a press conference calling for on all Arab governments to exclude the French companies, Veolia and Alstom, from all public contracts, due to their complicity in the […]
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New Orleans Film Festival Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel
New Orleans Palestine solidarity activists founded one film festival in New Orleans, called PATOIS (patoisfilmfest.org). Our festival considers ourselves part of the International BDS movement, and our festival observes the international boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. Now we have convinced another local film festival, the New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, to also observe the […]
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The French Workers’ Union CNT Joins BDS Campaign
franí§ais ci-dessous 01/11/2009 – Through the intermediary of its international Secretary, the National Work Confederation (Confédération Nationale du Travail or CNT), a French anti-capitalist internationalist union involved in social class struggles, has joined the campaign labelled “Boycott, Disinvestmant and Sanction against the State of Israel”, an international campaign launched by more than 170 grassroot Palestinian […]
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Egyptian Journalists Syndicate investigates ‘normalizers’ with Israel
The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate’s investigation committee decided, at its meeting on Tuesday, to refer Dr. Hala Mustafa, the editor of the Democracy magazine (part of the Al Ahram institution), and Siraj Hussain, the deputy editor of October magazine, to the syndicate’s disciplinary body. The reason the committee stated, is that these two journalists “violated the […]
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Supporting the Cultural Boycott from Within
The Israeli group, BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within, have circulated a call to action, asking Israeli citizens to contact officials at the University of Trondheim, and express their support for a decision in favor of an institutional boycott against Israeli universities. The letter sent by the group itself follows. 8/11/09 Boycott the […]
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Delusional Self-Defense, Delusional Congressional Vote
By Jimmy Leas and Noura Erakat The 344-36 House vote last week condemning the Goldstone Report, which encourages Israel and Hamas to conduct “credible” independent investigations of war crimes committed in Gaza, may help Israeli leaders avoid prosecution in the short-term. However, the House vote and the negative US votes at the UN will have […]
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BDS: Hitting Israel where it hurts – its economy.
Adbusters | 09 Nov 2009 The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was launched in July 2005 by the Palestinian BDS National Committee and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian organizations from the occupied Palestinian Territories, from Palestinian citizens of Israel and from the vast diaspora of Palestinian emigrants and refugees. The campaign calls upon […]
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British activists kick off week-long boycott against Israeli settlement products
Saed Bannoura [IMEMC News] 9 November 2009 – As part of the international Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK has implemented a week-long boycott against several large supermarket chains in the UK that carry Israeli products. The week-long boycott is targeting the Waitrose and Morrisons supermarket chains, in an attempt to […]
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Palestinian Students Open Letter to the Board of Governors of Trondheim University
We are Arab students at the Israeli universities writing to you in support of the proposed academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We believe that the boycott is timely and hopefully will help in upholding moral values of fairness, justice and equality which have been sorely missed in our region. While the reason for the […]
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Action Alert: Tell the New York Mets to say no to Hebron’s racist, violent settlers
Click here to send a letter to the Mets. FROM: Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Brooklyn For Peace, Coalition of Women for Peace (Israel), CODEPINK Women for Peace, Gush Shalom (Israel), Jews Against the Occupation-NYC, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jews Say No!, Jewish Voice for Peace, […]
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