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Boycott Israel? Amitav Ghosh & the Dan David Prize
Boycott Israel? Amitav Ghosh & the Dan David Prize Dear Amitav Ghosh, We wish to express our deep disappointment in your decision to accept the Dan David prize, administered by Tel Aviv University and to be awarded by the President of Israel. As a writer whose work has dwelled consistently on histories of colonialism and […]
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Speakers question U.S. role in Middle East conflict
By Lark Turner Published: Friday, May 7, 2010 Speakers from pro-Palestine groups discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Norris University Center on Thursday night at an event titled “Stories from Palestine: Life Under Israeli Occupation.” The event, held by Students for Justice in Palestine at Northwestern, brought about 15 students to the Lake Room to discuss […]
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Solidarity is a weapon against Israeli propaganda
May 6, 2010 Posted by yaman Perhaps the most important success of the divestment movement at Berkeley has been overlooked. Yes, it is true that a super majority of the student senate supported divestment from Israeli war crimes and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. It is true that the vote was reversed only […]
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Talks Fail to Bring About Compromise – UCSD Guardian
By Angela Chen The A.S. Campus Affairs Committee voted 7-8 last night to indefinitely table a controversial resolution calling for the UC system to divest from General Electric and United Technologies – companies the document claims are profiting from alleged Israeli human-rights violations in the Palestinian territories. Because the resolution was tabled during the committee […]
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UCSD Israel divestment measure tabled
Washington – Student Senators at the University of California, San Diego indefinitely tabled a measure to divest funds from two US companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, activists said. This came at a meeting on Wednesday night, a second attempt to pass a divestment measure after senators failed to agree on the language […]
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Anti-Israel divestment motion coming to University of California, Riverside
May 5, 12:45 PMLA Middle Eastern Policy Examiner Paul Kujawsky The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is an international, multi-faceted effort to delegitimize Israel. Despite the occasional disingenuous disclaimer, and although cloaked in the language of human rights and peace, the BDSers deny the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and […]
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Israel’s Consul General Admits “Occupation” in his ASUC Senate Testimony – April 14, 2010
@ 40 sec: “We seek to end the occupation; that is our position as a government,” while pounding on the lectern @ 1:05 sec: “We want to end the occupation; this is the position of the government of Israel”
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A “˜historic opportunity at hand’ tonight as UC San Diego votes on divestment
by Adam Horowitz on May 5, 2010 Anfal Awwad, Benjamin Balthaser, Oliver Burchill, Amal Dalmar and Aaron Dimsdale write in the UCSD newspaper The Guardian about the UCSD divestment resolution that will be voted on tonight: We have a historic opportunity to stop our university from contributing to the violation of human rights. This is […]
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Church leaders condemn Israel and Christian Zionism
Dr. Hanan Chehata Easter was the perfect opportunity for Christians to reconsider their position on the Palestine/Israel conflict and many did. In South Africa, more than sixty church leaders and theologians showed their support for Palestine and expressed their condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies by supporting the 2009 Kairos Palestine document. This was a paper […]
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