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Salfit chamber of commerce says boycott is ‘National duty’
Published today 12:02 SALFIT (Ma’an) — The Salfit Chamber of Commerce called for the clearing of the Palestinian market of settlement produce “as a national duty,” a statement read Saturday. The statement was distributed to traders and industrial workshops, which read that “morality and national duty calls on us all to boycott settlement goods and […]
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150 Irish artists pledge to boycott Israel
Singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey has called on artists around the world to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. The Dubliner backed about 150 Irish creative and performing artists who have already signed a pledge to boycott Israel until it ends its blockade of Gaza. Dempsey said he believed the recent commando attack on the […]
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A Jewish peace group grapples with BDS
by Jeff Warner on August 13, 2010 How can BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) contribute to bringing a just peace and prosperity to the people of Israel-Palestine? That is the question LA Jews for Peace has been grappling with as the BDS idea evolves into an international movement. LA Jews want to be part of […]
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A letter from an Israeli fan to LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem are a great band. Their song All My Friends was selected as 2007’s song of the year on my favorite music show, Hakatze (broadcast on the Israeli military radio station, by the way…) It will be great to have artists such as LCD Soundsystem perform here after Israel’s policies of violent siege, land […]
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Urge TIAA/CREF to Divest
Thursday, August 12, 2010 If you are/were in education and have a TIAA/CREF retirement account, please call and ask them to stop investing in Israel. Making money from apartheid is inconsistent with the stated ideals and goals of this special investment company. Call: 1 800 719-1193. Press 0 to get a live person, confirm your […]
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Irish artists sign cultural boycott pledge – your turn now
I”ve just come back from. Temple Bar. Usually a reserve in central Dublin where we herd tourists, this lunchtime it was taken over by Irish artists who support Palestine. Meeting House Square, a cultural nexus in the city centre, was donated by the managers of Temple Bar Properties as the site where the Irish artists” […]
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Gaza Students Condemn Eilat Funjoya Student Festival
Besieged Gaza PSCABI 9th August 2010 A few days ago various Israeli media agencies announced the launching of the Funjoya Student Festival in Eilat. This festival will take place during 2-4 September. Tourism Ministry of Apartheid Israel has invested around one million dollars in this project. Students from Western Europe and the US are expected […]
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The Jewish Response
By Mark Baraverman – There were two groups of Jewish attendees at the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Minneapolis early this month. One was composed of several members of Jewish Voice for Peace, Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and me. ImageWe were there at the invitation of […]
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Vandals hit S.F. billboards with anti-Israel invective
August 4, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO (j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California) — An activist group claimed responsibility for plastering anti-Israel messages over legitimate advertisements on San Francisco billboards. The group, calling itself the California Department of Corrections, claimed in an Internet posting to have struck billboards last week in nine city locations. The […]
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Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?
7 August 2010 By Matthew Reisz Political interference could put freedom of speech in universities at stake, says Matthew Reisz When it comes to the Israeli academy, said David S. Katz, director of the Lessing Institute for European History at Tel Aviv University, “we are entering a McCarthyite phase – and I do not exaggerate”. […]
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