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Netanyahu in U.S.–Protest in Los Angeles
TUESDAY, JULY 6 End the Siege of Gaza! End Israeli Apartheid! Free Palestine! Justice for the Flotilla Victims! Tuesday, July 6, 5pm-7pm Westwood Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Click here to endorse the July 6 Palestine Protest. On July 6, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will be in Washington meeting with President Obama. The […]
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Fury as Methodists vote to boycott Israel
The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, led condemnation of the Methodist Church for its approval of a report on Israel which he warned would have widespread repercussions for interfaith relations. By Marcus Dysch and Simon Rocker, July 1, 2010 The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council said the Methodists” annual conference should “hang its […]
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Iran declares boycott on Coca Cola, Intel and ‘Zionists’
Ahmadinejad signs law forbidding Iranian broadcast authority from airing advertisements for ‘Zionist’ companies. Black list include American companies owned by Jews and firms that do business with Israel. Nestle, IBM, others in crosshairs Dudi Cohen Published: 06.30.10, 17:49 / Israel News Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed Wednesday a new amendment to a law in the […]
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Palestinian Queers for BDS Call upon all Queer groups, organizations and individuals around the world to Boycott the Apartheid State of Israel.
Palestinian Queers for BDS Call upon all Queer groups, organizations and individuals around the world to Boycott the Apartheid State of Israel By Palestinian Queers for BDS June 27th 2010 As Palestinian Queers, we see the Queer movements as political in their nature; and ones that analyze the intersections between different struggles, evaluate relations of […]
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Jesse Rosenfeld: The Palestinian struggle, BDS and Canadian aid
By rabbleTV | June 25, 2010 June 21, 2010 at the Beit Zatoun House, Toronto While the three-year-old siege of Gaza has been brought into dramatic focus of late, the 12-year embargo of Iraq that crippled the economy and wrought havoc on civil society continues in another form, post-invasion. At the same time, the ongoing […]
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Pinkwashing: Listen to Elle Flanders, Cecilie Surasky on WBAI, Healing the Gay-Jewish Divide
New York”s WBAI Gay Pride 2010 programming: Listen to Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Cecilie Surasky explain Pinkwashing and Brand Israel and Canadian filmmaker and activist Elle Flanders on efforts to censor “Israeli apartheid”. If you have been following the story, you know that Pride Toronto, the LGBTQI group that puts on Toronto”s annual […]
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Israel’s ‘unspoken alliance’
By Laila El-Haddad Sasha Polakow-Suransky, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs, poured through 7,000 pages of never-before-seen classified South African documents while researching his book, Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. In it, he relays the minutes and details of conversations between top level officials on both sides that shed light on the extent […]
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Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite
Campaign to clear supermarket shelves of West Bank settlement wares forces Israeli factories to cut production Harriet Sherwood in Ramallah guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 June 2010 11.08 BST Israeli factories based in settlements on the West Bank have been forced to cut back production as a growing Palestinian boycott movement begins to take effect. The boycott, […]
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To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
Terry Crawford-Browne, The Electronic Intifada, 30 June 2010 The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country’s apartheid system. The campaign culminated in President FW de Klerk’s announcement in February 1990, releasing Nelson […]
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Omar Barghouti discusses BDS
Sunday, June 27, 2010 Cofounder of the Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and leading light of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, Omar Barghouti discusses the burgeoning of support from civil society worldwide for BDS since the horrific slaughter visited on Gaza by Israel in winter 2008- 2009 and the […]
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