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Israel Launches New ‘Soft War’
By MEL FRYKBERG (Middle East Times) Published: March 11, 2009 JERUSALEM — Shortly after the guns fell silent over Gaza, during Operation Cast lead, Israel’s three-week bloody onslaught over the coastal territory which left over 1,400 Palestinians dead and over 5,000 wounded, most of them civilian, the Israeli Foreign Ministry stepped up its ‘soft war.’ […]
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Procuring Academics for Empire
‘Pentagon is engaged in military-academic empire building strategy.’ By James Petras The Pentagon”s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. US military support for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the US-sponsored Ethiopian occupation of Somali, the coup attempts […]
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UMass students for divestment
By Michael Fiorentino | April 2, 2009 AMHERST, Mass.–The Student Government Association at the University of Massachusetts Amherst passed a resolution March 25 calling for divestment from companies that profit from war and occupation. The resolution was drafted by members of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) and supported by various progressive student groups. It was […]
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Lebanese Campaign for the Boycott of Zionism
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UMass Divestment
On Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 the Student Government Association of the University of Massachusetts Amherst passed a resolution calling for divestment from companies that profit from war and occupation! This is a great step forward!! Please consider thanking senators in the UMass Senate for this victory and stance, in the face of intimidation and misinformation. […]
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Australian Academic Boycott of Israel: Global BDS Day 30 March 2009
Responding to the CALL of Palestinian civil society to join the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, we are an Australian campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel): In light of Israel’s persistent violations […]
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The intellectual boycott of Israel hits the United States
By BR-News on March 20, 2009 In late January, a group of American university professors launched the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, the first American effort of its kind. Part of the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, the boycott calls for its adherents to, among other […]
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In the Diaspora: Suspended agitation
By SAMUEL FREEDMAN Entering the fall semester of 2001, I expected that the dominant political cause on American college campuses was going to be divestment from Israel. Two weeks into the term, on September 11, the prediction became irrelevant. But the effort to financially attack Israel, to single it out as a pariah state, never […]
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Cesar Chavez Day and Global Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Action Day
From la Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian Connections Monday March 30 2009 12.00-3.30 pm Taper Hall of the Humanities (THH) 101 Free and open to the public During the Israeli offensive on Gaza, it was often asked, “What if a terrorist group were lobbing rockets into San Diego out of Tijuana?” The analogy was tendentious and […]
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MSA submits boycott call to ASI
Randi Johns Published: Thursday, March 19, 2009 Updated: Friday, March 20, 2009 Associated Students Inc. listened to the first reading, as well as passionate public comments, of a new resolution regarding the Gaza Strip at Wednesday”s ASI Senate meeting. The Muslim Student Association (MSA) brought to the senate a resolution calling for an end to […]
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