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BDS: Hitting Israel where it hurts – its economy.
Adbusters | 09 Nov 2009 The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was launched in July 2005 by the Palestinian BDS National Committee and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian organizations from the occupied Palestinian Territories, from Palestinian citizens of Israel and from the vast diaspora of Palestinian emigrants and refugees. The campaign calls upon […]
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Sussex University students vote to boycott Israeli goods
Press release, University of Sussex Students’ Union, 6 November 2009 The following press release was issued by the University of Sussex Students’ Union on 5 November 2009: Students at the University of Sussex, England have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision follows the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, which calls […]
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Open Letter to the Board of Governors of Trondheim University: Boycott the Israeli Academy Now!
Occupied Ramallah 3 November 2009 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) applauds faculty members at the University of Trondheim and University College of Sí¸r-Trí¸ndelag in Norway for their principled support for the cause of justice in Palestine by proposing a motion to boycott Israeli universities. This is a historic […]
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UPDATE: Settlement-builder Lev Leviev’s Company Africa-Israel in Dire Straits
Lev Leviev”s company Africa-Israel is unable to repay its loans and is foundering. An Africa-Israel subsidiary, Danya Cebus, has built homes in a number of settlements on Palestinian land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Reporting on Africa-Israel”s severe financial problems, the Associated Press noted that Leviev”s “construction activities in the West Bank have come under […]
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Egypt media group agrees on massive Israel boycott
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent The London-based Arabic-language daily A Sharq al Awsat reported Monday that the board of directors of the powerful Egyptian media group Al-Ahram had decided to boycott Israel and Israelis of all positions. The Al-Ahram group is considered the most powerful media body in Egypt. Al-Ahram publishes newspapers considered to be […]
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The cowardice, the vanity, the sin of boycotting Israel
By Bradley Burston Live in this tainted Holy Land long enough, and you come to learn that there are two kinds of political activists, much as there are two kinds of artists. The first kind, the kind who changes the world, points to something that has yet to have been seen, something that seriously needs […]
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Palestinian-Led Movement To Boycott Israel Is Gaining Support
“Our South Africa Moment Has Finally Arrived,” Says One Leader By Gal Beckerman Published September 16, 2009, issue of September 25, 2009. Uzbekistan-born diamond mogul Lev Leviev announced late in August that his company, Africa-Israel, was drowning in debt of more than $5.5 billion that it could not repay. Over the next two days, shares […]
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Boycott movement derails Jerusalem’s transit system
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 18 September 2009 An ill-fated light railway under construction in Jerusalem was originally heralded by Israeli officials as a way to cement the city’s “unification” four decades after the city’s Palestinian half was illegally annexed to Israel. But the only unity generated among Jewish and Palestinian residents after four years […]
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Brazilian Parliament Calls for the Freeze of the Israel – Mercosur Free Trade Agreement
This decision is an enormous blow for Israel”s economy and foreign relations The Brazilian Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Relations and National Defense has recommended that the parliament should not ratify the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Mercosur and the State of Israel until “Israel accepts the creation of the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders”. […]
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U.S. pension fund giant confirms divestment from Israel firm
By Ora Coren, TheMarker The U.S. pension fund giant, TIAA-CREF, confirmed in statements to the media on Friday that it divested from Africa Israel Investments, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, earlier this year. The statements came in response to a letter initiated by a pro-Palestinian group, Adalah-NY, and signed by TIAA-CREF clients. The fund’s […]
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