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Boycotts are bustin’ out all over
Friday, May 21, 2010 Have you heard the boycott news? Singer/songwriter/rock-n-roller Elvis Costello has not only canceled two gigs in Israel, but he’s come out with a powerful public statement of his support for boycott: “One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or […]
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JUNE 2: NO DANCING ON GAZA’S GRAVES!
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm Location: Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave. Reject business as usual with Israel and protest Israel’s participating in the Chicago Sister City International’s Consular Corps Ball! WHEN: Wednesday, 2 June 2010, 5:30pm WHERE: Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave. Join the Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago’s protest of […]
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Elvis Is King
For this in its entirety, and more specifically for this: [T]here are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent. […]
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Following Boycott Calls, Elvis Costello Cancels Israel Concerts
The rock musician Elvis Costello has canceled a pair of upcoming concerts in Israel in response to boycott calls from Palestinian solidarity activists. In a statement, Costello said, “I must believe that the audience…would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or […]
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OECD rewards Israel’s occupation
Despite Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development recently agreed to let it join, writes Brian Napoletano. May 20, 2010 THE GOVERNMENTS of the 31 member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) all agreed on May 10 that Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, […]
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Boycott volunteers say army searching for them
Published today (updated) 20/05/2010 18:44 Bethlehem – Ma’an – Volunteers with the Palestinian Authority’s House to House settlement goods boycott campaign said Israeli forces entered the Husan village, west of Bethlehem, searching for them. Volunteer Ahmad Jaz’ul told Ma’an that four Israeli military jeeps “raided the village at 1pm in the afternoon, searching for the […]
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PA hands out blacklisted settlement goods list
Published Tuesday 18/05/2010 (updated) 20/05/2010 08:58 Bethlehem/Jenin – Ma’an – Residents received hand-delivered lists of blacklisted settlement products on Tuesday as the Palestinian Authority kicked off its door-to-door anti-settlement produce campaign throughout the West Bank, comprising the first of several pamphlets to be distributed as part of the House to House program. The list, part […]
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PA upgrades boycott of settlement products despite Israeli warnings
Palestinian Authority upgrading its campaign against Jewish-made goods from the West Bank and Golan Heights. By Avi Issacharoff and Chaim Levinson The Palestinian Authority has upgraded its campaign against products made in Israeli settlements, notwithstanding warnings from Israel. On Tuesday, some 3,000 Palestinian volunteers, conscripted by the government of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad through […]
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Belgian-French bank cornered over Israeli settlement financing
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2010 BRUSSELS (IPS) – New evidence has been uncovered to show that Dexia, a major Belgian-French bank, is still financing Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) despite official assurances that such loans have ceased. Jean-Luc Dehaene, a former Belgian prime minister and now Dexia’s chairman, announced […]
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ISRAEL: Elvis Costello cancels Tel Aviv concerts as ‘matter of conscience’
May 19, 2010 | 10:20 am Elvis Costello What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding? Nothing for Israeli fans of Elvis Costello who will not see the legend perform in Tel Aviv this summer after he canceled all scheduled shows there, citing concerns over the treatment of Palestinians. “There are occasions when merely having […]
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