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Israeli Jews and the one-state solution
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 November 2009 Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won’t bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end. — Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009. One of the most commonly voiced objections to a one-state solution for Palestine/Israel […]
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Norwegian minister: Academic boycott of Israel would be illegal
Last update – 03:29 10/11/2009 By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The University of Trondheim would be in violation of legal principles if its board members vote on Thursday to boycott Israel, Norway’s minister for higher education, Tora Aasland warned on Monday in a television broadcast. If the vote is passes, it would make the Trondheim-based […]
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Detentions Leave Palestinian Students in Limbo
November 8, 2009 By Matthew Kalman Birzeit, West Bank Ashraf Abuiram should have graduated from college long ago, but his life took an unexpected turn. In late 2005, when he was a second-year student pursuing a degree in sociology at Birzeit University, 20 jeeps carrying 100 Israeli soldiers showed up at his home in the […]
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Israel targeting the boycott movement
Mya Guarnieri, The Electronic Intifada, 9 November 2009 For nearly six weeks now Mohammed Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist and an outspoken advocate of the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has been held in an Israeli military prison without charges. On 22 September 2009 Othman, 34, was detained at the Allenby Crossing as […]
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Carmel Agrexco Blockaded on third consecutive day
Yesterday Israeli settlement produce importer Carmel Agrexco was blockaded for a third consecutive day. About twenty people joined a protest at Carmel, based in Hayes, West London. Protesters re-arranged some light plastic barriers that were helpfully left outside Carmel to block both gates, and also stood in front of the gates, blocking them for over […]
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Endorses the Palestinian call for BDS
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence endorses the Palestinian Call for BDS–Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions for Palestine
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Palestinian group staging supermarket boycott
November 8, 2009 LONDON (JTA) — A pro-Palestinian group is staging a weeklong protest at two British supermarket chains to force them to stop selling Israeli products. Palestine Solidarity Campaign is calling this week for a boycott of the Morrison and Waitrose chains as part of a long-term campaign for an economic and cultural boycott […]
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Sussex University students vote to boycott Israeli goods
Press release, University of Sussex Students’ Union, 6 November 2009 The following press release was issued by the University of Sussex Students’ Union on 5 November 2009: Students at the University of Sussex, England have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision follows the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, which calls […]
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A Plea to Norway’s University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel
To: University of Trondheim, Norway “Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims.” –Famed British Historian Professor Arnold Toynbee “In the name […]
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NY Mets, Cancel Hebron Fund’s Dinner at Citi Field
TO: Mr. Fred Wilpon, Chairman of the Board of the New York Mets CC: Mr. Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball Ms. Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State Mr. George Mitchell, United States Special Envoy for the Middle East Ms. Rachel Robinson, Chairman of the Jackie Robinson Foundation SUBJECT: Cancel Hebron Fund”s Fundraising […]
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