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Urgent Action Alert – EU and Israel set to renew Action Plan – Action Needed
“No to the renewal of the EU-Israel Action Plan!” “Suspend the EU-Israel Trade Association Agreement!” “Call off Israel”s accession to OECD!” Occupied Palestine, 5 June 2010 – The European Union is set to renew this month the EU-Israel Action Plan as Israel”s occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip […]
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Israel plans to send bill to Palestinians over boycotts
By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem Friday, 11 June 2010 What do The Pixies, Elvis Costello, and Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, have in common? A cursory glance might suggest not much yet all have deeply irked Israel. When Mr Fayyad first embarked on a door-to-door campaign to persuade Palestinians to shun all […]
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Egyptian activists do flash mob on Starbucks
Their account: Yesterday, 18 Egyptian activists gathered along with 7 International activists to create a flashmob at Starsucks cafe. We gathered right beside Starbucks cafe, we went with the Keffiyes (Palestinian scarves), Turkish flags, and BDS stickers and posters. 3 activists went inside the cafe and kept distributing a statement of boycott which is advocating […]
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Evergreen State students overwhelmingly pass divestment votes
Press release, TESC Divest, 8 June 2010 The following release was issued on 2 June 2010 by TESC Divest: On 2 June 2010, students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, made history by passing two resolutions supporting human rights, upholding international law, and promoting a just peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict. 1. The […]
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Israel about to criminalize BDS
June 9th, 2010 | by Sydney Levy What is Israel”s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course! We just learned new bill has been introduced in the Israeli Knesset by 25 Knesset members, that would criminalize all BDS activities or even BDS advocacy inside or outside […]
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Boycott Apartheid, Don’t Play Israel Facebook Groups
Active Boycott Groups Diana Krall – please don’t break the Palestinian call to Boycott Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123536954352660&ref=ts Ozzy Osbourne : Please don’t play apartheid Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114491948592907&ref=ts BOB DYLAN BOYCOTT ISRAEL http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116628888365109&ref=ts Elvis Costello: Respect the Palestinian call to boycott Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117120338312055&ref=ts (Success – not playing) Joan Armatrading: Please Don’t Go to Israel! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116625421691276&ref=ts (Joan played and […]
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Artists’ Boycott Strikes a Dissonant Note Inside Israel
By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: June 9, 2010 JERUSALEM – The announcement by the Pixies, an American alternative rock band, that they would cancel their long-awaited concert in Israel this week amid international outrage over Israel”s deadly raid on a Turkish activists” ship bound for Gaza, had an impact far beyond the 15,000 disappointed fans. The […]
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Inaccurate Labelling Of Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetics
May 6, 2010 Neil Gunn Intervention from the European Court of Justice and UK parliamentary debate have highlighted the misuse of the “Made in Israel” label on some products. A recent demonstration, (8/3/10) against the Israeli food producer Agrexco, in the French Mediterranean port of Sete has once again raised the thorny subject of the […]
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Ann Arbor City Council is hit with Boycott-Israel Resolution:
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 At their June 7, 2010 public meeting… Ann Arbor City Council members refused to vote on this resolution to boycott all products from Israel. This was just 1 week after Israel shot its way onto a humanitarian aid ship, killing 9 passengers. The proposed boycott resolution is 8 words long: “Ann […]
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Boycott Placebo: Activists
Jun 8, 2010 BEIRUT – LEBANESE activists called on Tuesday for a boycott of British rock band Placebo on the eve of its Lebanon gig for performing in Israel in the wake of the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. ‘You are not welcome in Lebanon,’ Lebanese writer and editor Samah Idriss said at […]
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