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Unease over Jordan-Israel trade
Suha Philip Ma”ayeh, Foreign Correspondent * Last Updated: September 19. 2010 10:49PM UAE / September 19. 2010 6:49PM GMT ZARQA, JORDAN // Israel”s announcement last week that it planned to export 50,000 used cars to Jordan and Iraq created unease among Jordanian second-hand car dealers while advocates against normalising relations with Israel stepped up calls […]
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LEGAL ACTION AGAINST AGREXCO
AGAINST THE CRIME OF COLONISATION (Created by law n°2010-930 of August 9 2010) FRENCH ORGANISATIONS BRING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE ISRAELI COMPANY CARMEL-AGREXCO PRESS CONFERENCE Wednesday September 15th at the headquarters of the Confédération Paysanne 104 rue Robespierre – 93170 Bagnolet (FRANCE), M° Gallieni The Confédération Paysanne, UJFP (Union of French Jews for Peace), The […]
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Press Release: USACBI Announces Over 500 Academics Have Endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) http://usacbi.wordpress.com/ Over 500 academics have endorsed USACBI! “We have to be careful not to over-exaggerate on this, but we also have to be careful not to ignore it,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University and co-founder of the International […]
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Open Letter to Filmmaker Stephen Frears
DON”T NORMALIZE APARTHEID, WITHDRAW FROM HAIFA 2010 September 18th, 2010 Dear Stephen Frears: As fellow artists who have been critical of the state of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinian people, we were surprised to learn that your film “Tamara Drew” is scheduled to open the Haifa International Film Festival of 2010 (HIFF). While unable to […]
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Open Letter to Joanna Newsom
Sep. 18, 2010 Dear Joanna Newsom, We are members of Boycott! – a group of Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who support the Palestinian call to boycott Israel as means of bringing to an end the murderous, systematic oppression of an entire population, which occurs daily in our name. The news of your scheduled performance […]
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Stephen Frears and the Haifa Film Festival
To: Mr. Stepehen Frears (Copies: Israeli and International Media) Dear Stephen Frears, We are a group of Israeli citizens and British citizens. We write this letter to you just a few days before your film, Tamara Drewe, will open the 26th Haifa International Film Festival, which will take place from September 23 – 30, 2010. […]
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Why we are boycotting the Batsheva Dance Company
by Adam Horowitz on September 17, 2010 The following is an open letter to the Batsheva Dance Company from two groups organizing a boycott of its upcoming shows in New York City: Dear Batsheva Dance Company, We are a group of New York-based human rights activists and artists calling for a boycott of your performances […]
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Boycott!’s letter to Pete Seeger
30 August 2010 Dear Pete Seeger, We are members of an Israeli group called “Boycott! supporting the Palestinian call for boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) from within”. We are appealing to you because of commitment you have demonstrated during many years to social justice. We have recently heard that you plan to participate this November […]
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Dear John Lee Hooker, Jr.
It has come to our attention that you are scheduled to perform in the city of Tel Aviv. As a group of Israeli citizens who object the long and brutal oppression that our state inflicts on the Palestinian people that are held under its sway, we urge you to cancel this show. Indeed, we hope […]
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Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op debates Palestine politics
No matzo, no peace By Lien Hoang This article was published on 09.16.10. Matzo and bath salts are stirring up controversy over at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, where a fraction of its 12,000 owner-members is moving to boycott products that come from Israel. The boycott is being pushed by the Sacramento Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions […]
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