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10 Good Things About 2009 (& BDS is #4 on the list!)
By Medea Benjamin My almost annual list of ten good things about the waning year has never before posed such a tremendous challenge. In the face of this challenge, I decided to try a minimalist thought experiment, blocking out the many baneful events that colored 2009, and instead seeking out the small, yet powerfully bright […]
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This is what accountability looks like.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 What does accountability for human rights abuses and violations of international law look like? Maybe like this: Following a letter from Oxfam to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown which “raised humanitarian concerns about the impact of the occupied Israeli territories on the Palestinian people,” the UK is requiring retailers to clearly […]
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Israeli government convenes working group to battle BDS
by Ben White on December 16, 2009 This week, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is sponsoring a conference aimed at “combating antisemitism” in Jerusalem. It”s interesting to see a conference apparently about tackling racism being co-chaired by Avigdor Lieberman. The other co-chair is a Likud MK who lives in a settlement in the Occupied […]
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Victory – Credo Mobile Hangs Up On Moto!
Last week we found out that Credo Mobile, a telephone service provider that claims to be guided by progressive values, stopped offering Motorola phones to their customers after complaints from our supporters. This is a major victory in our campaign to boycott Motorola for profiting from Israeli occupation and apartheid against Palestinians! Please take a […]
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El Al Flights to Johanesburg may come to an end
Dec 16, 2009 2:23 | Updated Dec 16, 2009 4:30 By HERB KEINON El Al may cancel its three weekly flights to Johannesburg by mid-January if a dispute with the South African government over the status of the Israeli security detail in the airport there is not solved by then. Foreign Ministry officials said that […]
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On the approaching anniversary of Gaza massacre, help us recruit more endorsers to our BDS campaign
14th December 2009 Dear Friends, First, welcome to our new US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel endorsers. You have helped us pass the 400 mark of US academic endorsers. With well known author Barbara Ehrenreich adding her name to our list of authors, artists, musicians, and others, we now also have 110 […]
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Where will boycott show up next?
Friday, December 11, 2009 Stories about boycotts of goods produced in Israeli settlements have been popping up all over the place recently. Here’s just a few examples. Yesterday, we let you know about an article on Ahava at CNNMoney. CNN refused to say whether there is an official boycott of Ahava in the United States–something […]
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UK calls for clearer Israeli labels
Britain has advised UK supermarkets selling goods from the West Bank to state explicitly on the labels whether the content has come from Israeli settlement or Palestinian-owned farms. The recommendation, issued by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), is not a legal requirement but Israeli officials and settler leaders have reacted […]
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Boycott Israel update
Boycotting Israeli goods should become easier in the UK following an order that goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank be labelled as such. Here’s the Guardian: Britain has acted to increase pressure on Israel over its West Bank settlements by advising UK supermarkets on how to distinguish between foods from the settlements […]
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UK issues new guidance on labelling of food from illegal West Bank settlements
Stickers could read ‘Israeli settlement produce’ , but move is not a boycott, says Foreign Office * Ian Black, Middle East editor, and Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 December 2009 19.39 GMT Britain has acted to increase pressure on Israel over its West Bank settlements by advising UK supermarkets on how to […]
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