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Fayyad hands out settlement boycott leaflets
PA to continue boycott until ‘our homes are empty of settlement goods,’ Palestinian PM says Ali Waked and Reuters Published: 05.27.10, 18:39 / Israel News The Palestinians will continue to adhere to the anti-settlement boycott until their homes “will be empty of settlement goods,” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Thursday. The PM passed out […]
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Palestinian Boycott National Committee Statement on Repression in Canada
Boycott National Committee (BNC) Secretariat | 26 May 2010 Palestinian civil society condemns repression in Canada against Palestine solidarity campaigns and humanitarian efforts Occupied Palestine, May 26 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), strongly condemns the actions taken by Canadian state bodies, university administrations and pressure groups to defund, repress […]
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Poster Protest in Umeí¥
On May 22nd in Umeí¥/Sweden, on the annual cultural festival “Culture Night”, activists put speech bubbles on H&M bikini posters to inform about the H&M investment in Israel and to encourage a boycott of H&M and Israeli products. The message to consumers is that H&M is now selling bikinis, oppression, occupation, apartheid, and white phosphorus […]
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Palestinian Civil Society welcomes decision taken by Italian supermarket chains to suspend sale of Israeli settlement produce
Occupied Palestine, 26 May 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) warmly welcomes the decision taken by two of Italy”s largest supermarket chains to suspend sales of products from Israel’s colonial settlements, illegally built in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Nordiconad announced that they will no longer stock produce from Agrexco, […]
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PROTEST ISIS RECOGNITION OF “ARIEL UNIVERSITY”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Sherna Berger Gluck, 310-455-1028, c: 310-383-0010, sbgluck[at]csulb.edu; David Klein, 818-709-1530, c: 818-723-3362, david.klein[at]csun.edu Afshin Matin-Asgari – available for interviews on-site on Friday: +1.323-633-4829 What: Informational Picket at the conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies in protest against a speaker from an illegal Israeli settlement Where: Double Tree Hotel 1707 […]
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Protesters Condemn Israeli “Ambassador of Apartheid” Michael Oren
Activists Protest Brandeis Commencement, Jerusalem Day Event at BPL By: Boston BDS Activists Press Contact: Heike Schotten, bdsbostonma[at]gmail.com Waltham, MA, May 25, 2010 – Boston area activists voiced their opposition to Brandeis University”s honoring of Israeli-U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren as this year”s commencement speaker. Standing in solidarity with the more than 150 Brandeis students who […]
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Boycott gives Israel a taste of its own medicine
The Palestinian boycott of Jewish settlement goods outrages Israel but is nothing compared with Israel’s undeclared embargo o Rachel Shabi o guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 May 2010 10.00 BST Things are heating up with the Palestinian boycott of Jewish settlement products. The Palestinian Authority has recently passed a law prohibiting the sale of such goods, with […]
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The PA’s disingenuous boycott campaign
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 25 May 2010 In recent weeks, the US- and Israeli-backed Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has made a show of calling on Palestinians to boycott goods manufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Despite the rhetoric of defiance and resistance, and exaggerated screams of anguish from Israeli settler groups, the […]
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Note to Elvis Costello’s Wife Diana Krall: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel!
Diana Krall, wife of Elvis Costello who recently chose to abide by the cultural boycott and not play in apartheid Israel, is scheduled to perform there later this summer. Krall would do well to heed her husband’s moral decision not to support an apartheid regime by performing there.
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Is Bob Dylan Embracing a Silent Boycott of Apartheid Israel?
In January Ynet reported Bob Dylan’s May 27th concert date in the apartheid state. Now his website shows no sign of any stop in apartheid Israel.
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