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London hall cancels Independence Day show over Gaza op
Reputable theater in UK refuses to host Israeli show celebrating nation’s 61st birthday due to pressure by rights groups following Israeli offensive in Strip London’s Bloomsbury Theatre decided Tuesday to cancel a planned Independence Day show organized by the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland. The Bloomsbury was set to host a show celebrating Israel’s […]
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Outrage over Israeli It Ain’t Half Hot Mum-style show
Critics condemn London show featuring Israeli Defence Force dance troupe as ‘ghoulish and retrograde’ * Haroon Siddique * guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 April 2009 09.40 BST An Israeli Defence Force song-and-dance troupe is to perform in London at a show to commemorate the founding of Israel, provoking anger among groups that campaign for the rights of […]
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French Court to Hear Israeli Tram Case
By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS PARIS — Palestinian lobby groups that contest Israel’s authority over East Jerusalem have found they might be helped via an unexpected route: a French court. The court decided to take up the case against French companies contracted by Israel to build a tram line that runs deep into East Jerusalem from West […]
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Boycott campaign urges Iran to cut ties with settlement-linked companies
Date: 21 / 04 / 2009 Time: 14:07 Bethlehem – Ma”an – Palestinian civil society groups called on Tehran to cut ties with two French companies profiting from work in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took center stage as a critic of Israel at […]
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BDS: Thinking Outside the PLO Box
‘The tragedy of Gaza was not enough to wake the PLO up from its slumber.’ By Samah Sabawi Three months ago, the world stood still for one rare moment of absolute clarity as it grasped the implication of Israel’s imprisonment of a civilian population and its use of aid and medicine as a political bargaining […]
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A slander on our movement
Lichi D’Amelio responds to the charge, sadly made in a left-wing newspaper, that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic. April 8, 2009 “PART OF the deepening pattern of Jew-baiting and anti-Semitism in the middle-class left worldwide.” You might think that such an ugly and provocative statement had to come from […]
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International Appeal in Solidarity with Arab Railway Workers in Israel
The Appeal Support Arab railway workers in Israel in their struggle to keep their jobs! Call on Israel Railways to revise its new policy requiring army service as an employment condition! This policy is clearly discriminatory: it disqualifies Arab workers because Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel are exempt from service in the Israeli army. The […]
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Archbishop Tutu has right to speak at graduation
Although MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon has closed the door on discussions about recalling Archbishop Desmond Tutu for this spring”s commencement address, many people have expressed concern about the South African activist. The problems put forth by Tutu”s detractors, however, are not sufficient enough to warrant his removal as commencement speaker. The Anti-Defamation League, […]
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URGENT: Protest ROM decision to display stolen antiquities
The Dead Sea scrolls, confiscated from East Jerusalem during Israel’s 1967 military invasion and occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, are coming to Toronto. The move is part of Israel consul general Amir Gissin’s official “Brand Israel” campaign that attempts to ‘rebrand’ apartheid Israel beyond its systematic repression of the Palestinian people. Since 1967, hundreds […]
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