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The last refuge
By Gideon Levy The timing of the mini-maelstrom over an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times by Neve Gordon, who teaches politics and government at Be’er Sheva’s Ben-Gurion University, calling for a boycott of Israel, was somewhat grotesque. Hardly have the throats dried of those calling for his dismissal, for his citizenship to be […]
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Curators pull out of Tel Aviv art biennial over Gaza war protest
By Liora Kaplan Two international curators who were to participate in the planning of ArtTLV, an art biennial taking place in Israel in September, have pulled out of the project after their Israeli counterparts refused to publish articles condemning Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and to arrange a symposium on art and war. The […]
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TIFF Celebrating Israeli colonialism, ethnic cleansing and apartheid! City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv at the Toronto International Film Festival
Occupied Ramallah, 27 August 2009 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is gravely concerned that the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 (TIFF) has decided to spotlight Tel Aviv for its inaugural City-to-City program. We encourage filmmakers and audiences to boycott the Spotlight as it extends a gesture of “goodwill” […]
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Hysteria follows LA Times op-ed
What happens when an Israeli professor speaks his mind about the Israeli occupation? Let”s find out. Take a look at Ben Gurion University Prof. Neve Gordon, who by the way, is a member of the Committee to Support Ezra Nawi. He published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, titled Boycott Israel: An Israeli comes […]
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Second Opinion: The crops stolen from Palestine
Joanna Blythman, The Grocer 15/08/2009 Produce grown by Israel on illegally occupied territory should be shunned, says Joanna Blythman Herbs, citrus, Medjoul dates, cherry tomatoes … lawyers from Defra, the FSA and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are currently drafting regulations on the labelling of foods such as these from ‘Israel’. Most of it comes […]
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Settlement builder Leviev dealt divestment blow
Press release, Adalah-NY, 25 August 2009 In another stunning blow to Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev, the Israeli business magazine Globes Online has reported that BlackRock Inc., one of the world’s largest investment management firms, has divested from Leviev’s Africa-Israel Investments. The Globes article follows a similar report by the Norwegian news service Norwatch. The move […]
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Derailing Injustice: Palestinian Civil Resistance to the “Jerusalem LightRail”
by Omar Barghouti Jerusalem Quarterly – Issue 38, Summer 2009 “I believe that this [Jerusalem Light Rail] should be done, and in any event, anything that can be done to strengthen Jerusalem, construct it, expand it and sustain it for eternity as the capital of the Jewish people and the united capital of the State […]
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Decolonizing Israel
By SOUSAN HAMMAD “An underdeveloped people must prove, by its fighting power, its ability to set itself up as a nation, and by the purity of every one of its acts, that it is, even to the smallest detail, the most lucid, the most self-controlled people.” –Frantz Fanon, “A Dying Colonialism” There is an echoing […]
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Queers Respond to Tel-Aviv Homophobic Violence, Call for BDS against Israel
If your own suffering does not serve to unite you with the suffering of others, if your own imprisonment does not join you with others in prison, if you in your smallness remain alone, then your pain will have been for naught. On the evening of August 1st in Tel Aviv, someone entered a youth […]
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Boycott “Israel”: Ann Arbor takes it to City Hall!
Just to show that people can (and should) get these issues having to do with public money and policy in the discussion at the decisional level, we have the video of the short talk given at the Ann Arbor (Michigan) City Council Meeting. It should serve as an example of ways to act and influence […]
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