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French Appeals Court Confirms Jurisdiction over Alstom Case
[La version franí§aise suit] AFPS, 22 December 2009 — The Court of Appeal of Versailles confirms the jurisdiction of the Tribunal of Nanterre regarding the legal claim brought by AFPS against Véolia transport, Alstom and Alstom transport regarding the construction and operation of a light railway in East Jerusalem. Following the admissibility ruling handed down […]
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Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign
Click here to download ABIGAIL B. BAKAN and YASMEEN ABU-LABAN’s article in Race & Class.
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Dexia Bank Refuses Grant For Jewish Settlements
The Belgian-French Group, Dexia, refused to finance grants meant for the construction of property in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision came after a Palestinian and a Belgium groups filed a petition against financing settlement constructions. Moayyad Affana, coordinator of the twin-project of the Intellectuals Forum in the northern West Bank city […]
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2009 BDS Highlights
PACBI Newsletter #1 The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth of the global BDS movement. The massive lethal Israeli war of aggression on the Gaza Strip in late December 2008 and January 2009 galvanized many organized groups and individuals around the world to call for BDS actions as a means […]
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Pressure
The Belgian French bank group Dexia, which specializes in financing municipalities and other local authorities, is refusing to work with Judea and Samaria local councils, Israel Radio reported Wednesday morning. Sources in the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip told Israel Radio that in several cases, applicants were informed that […]
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Palestine/Israel: A Single State, with Liberty and Justice for All, Regardless of Religion
by Susan Abulhawa with Ramzy Baroud / December 26th, 2009 Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been a multi-religious and multi-cultural country. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. Other nations fought wars and waged epic struggles to […]
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Veolia, Alstom in legal muddle
Firms face trial over west bank project * By Abbas Al Lawati, Staff Reporter * Published: December 25, 2009 * Gulf News Dubai: Two French transport giants Veolia and Alstom could face trial in France over their involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail project that aims to link the eastern and western parts of Occupied […]
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Boycott & Divestment Efforts Proliferate on Campus: The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) is an academic boycott campaign started in 2009 by 13 professors in California. USACBI describes itself as responding to the call of the international Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and is mimicking that group’s efforts to support […]
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Jerusalem Diary: Choir caught in disharmony
By Tim Franks BBC News, Jerusalem CHOIR FEELING FLAT OVER BOYCOTT ROW It should be a time of unalloyed joy for Tim Brown. The director of one of Britain’s most well-regarded choirs is beginning a six-concert tour of Israel this week. The choir of Clare College, Cambridge, will be singing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the […]
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Carolers Sing for Boycott of Leviev while Israel Jails Palestinian Allies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, December 19, 2009 – On a snowy Saturday afternoon, forty-five human rights carolers serenaded Madison Avenue shoppers with familiar holiday tunes outside the storefront of Israeli diamond and settlement mogul Lev Leviev, but their lyrics called for the boycott of Leviev”s companies. The New York protest took place against […]
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