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Montrealers throw Hallowe’en party at the Bay to launch boycott of Israeli Ahava Dead Sea products
Montreal, October 31 – On the scariest day of the year, members of Middle East solidarity groups Tadamon, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and the Québec BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Committee will be demanding that the Bay take its creepiest product, Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics, off its shelves. Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories (www.ahava.co.il) […]
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Israeli banks entrenched in settlement building
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 27 October 2009 Several Western pension funds and financial managers hold shares in two Israeli banks: Bank Hapoalim and Bank Leumi. Both banks operate in and offer loans to finance illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories. Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, was established in 1921 by […]
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Bahrain Politicians Spar Over Israel Boycott
October 25th, 2009 The Media Line Staff The Bahraini parliament is at loggerheads with the government because of a bill which proposes heavy prison sentences for people who conduct any kind of dealings with Israel. The bill, set to be discussed on Tuesday, bans “any form of cooperation with the Israeli entity,” and advises that […]
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Conference Declaration: United in Struggle against Israeli Colonialism, Occupation and Racism
United in Struggle against Israeli Colonialism, Occupation and Racism 24-25 October, 2009 Bethlehem, Palestine Seminar Declaration Towards the unity of all forces in struggle for boycott, divestment and sanctions for Palestine Between the 24th and the 25th of October, 2009, the Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI), together with the Alternative Information Center […]
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Open Letter to the International Geographical Union: Enforcing Geographies of Justice
PACBI | 29 October 2009 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is deeply disturbed by the decision of the International Geographical Union (IGU) to hold its regional conference in Israel next July. We urge the IGU to relocate this conference to another venue in the region, and appeal to […]
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Norway university to vote next month on boycott of Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board votes in favor of the move at a meeting on the subject next month. Three days prior to the November 12 vote by […]
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Studies in Racism
Sara Leibovitz-Dar | Maariv | 21 October 2009 “When Israel sends a sophisticated satellite into space, the Arabs come up with a new kind of hummus,” Dr. Dan Schueftan told students during his course on Israel”s security perspective in the diplomacy and security program for senior managers at Tel Aviv University. An essay that was […]
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College and University Workers United
Why Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions pamphlet. Click here to download: Why Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions pamphlet
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AIC Releases Report on Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions
The Alternative Information Centre (AIC) has released a groundbreaking report on the role of Israeli academic institutions in supporting and maintaining Israeli Apartheid. The idea of an academic boycott of Israel first emerged in 2002 as part of the growing boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, itself a part of the struggle against the Israeli […]
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CODEPINK JOINs THE FIRST GLOBAL BDS MARATHON
Codepink protest AHAVA, which is made in Occupied Palestinian Territory and sold as made in Israel. See the ongoing campaign: http://www.stolenbeauty.org/article.php?list=type&type=415 as part the first global BDS Marathon, October 16/17 2009 http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2085.shtml Israeli arrests of Palestinian human rights activists aim at stopping grassroots activism and the global call for Israeli accountability in front of international […]
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