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Edinburgh International Film Festival admits It was a mistake to take Israeli Embassy Money
Protest Cancelled: Israeli money returned Ginnie Atkinson, Managing Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has confirmed that EIFF will not be taking Israeli Embassy money to help fund the 2009 film festival. Atkinson was unwilling to admit EIFF was influenced by Scottish PSC, or by the protest emails the EIFF has received since […]
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Who Profits Newsletter – Focus on Norwegian Pension Fund Investments
Who Profits from the Occupation May Newsletter: International Investment in the Occupation A Case Study: The Norwegian Government’s Pension Fund The economic interests in the Israeli occupation of Palestine are not exclusive to Israeli corporations. In a global economy, international corporations and investors are heavily involved in the manifold economy of the occupation. In our […]
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PACBI: Open Letter to Leonard Cohen
Healing Israeli Apartheid, not its Victims? PACBI — Ramallah, Occupied Palestine, 16 May 2009 Last month, prominent academics from the British Committee for Universities of Palestine, BRICUP [1], urged you not to perform in Israel, arguing: “If you had just emerged from three weeks of unfettered bombing from land, sea and air, with no place […]
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Quetzal boycotts Fiesta Shalom
A few weeks ago, the band Quetzal was asked to play at Fiesta Shalom, an event aimed at building relations between the Jewish and Chicano community. The band, which has long worked in community building exercises and projects, saw the invitation as a great opportunity – but when it came time to sign the contract, […]
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Norwegian MP: If investment in occupation acceptable, we must revise ethics guidelines
Bethlehem – Ma”an Exclusive – A Norwegian ethics committee is due to travel to Israel and the West Bank in two weeks to assess the investment of the world”s largest government pension fund, The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, in Africa Israel Investments. In advance of that visit, a delegation of seven members of the Norwegian […]
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Jewish Chronicle on PSC meeting with Tescos
Tesco denies labels shift but “will meet” Palestine group Tesco executives have agreed to meet members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to discuss labelling on produce from West Bank settlements, despite insisting that there will be no change in their policy. The long-challenged voluntary labelling guidelines, whereby supermarkets are encouraged by the government to state […]
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University occupations over Gaza
Mona Baker At the end of December 2008 a wave of protest occupations swept across UK university campuses in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The “occupation movement” started on 13 January 2009, when students at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London occupied the Brunei Gallery and issued a list of […]
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Israeli orgs call on Norway to divest from occupation
Press release, Various undersigned, 14 May 2009 In an unprecedented way, a wide array of Israeli civil society and grassroots organizations has sent a letter to the Norwegian Pension Fund, addressed to its Council on Ethics, urging it to support their efforts for a just peace and equality in Israel/Palestine by divesting from all companies […]
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Arabs renew calls for Israel boycott
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– The 82nd conference for the Arab liaison officers of economic boycott of Israel opened in Damascus on Tuesday with the participation of 14 Arab countries amidst renewed calls for activating those offices. The general commissioner of the main office for the boycott of Israel, Mohammed Al-Tayeb, said in a press statement that holding […]
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Chicano Music Group Boycotts Israel Consulate Concert
By Will Quetzal, an East Los Angeles-based group, turned down an invitation to perform at a May 17 concert (“Fiesta Shalom” – seriously) designed to improve Latino-Jewish relations because it was sponsored by the Israeli consulate. The band issued the following statement. To Whom It May Concern: Quetzal will not be performing at the Fiesta […]
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