• ULU: Why We Voted for Boycott

    Posted on May 22, 2011

    ULU: Why We Voted for Boycott, published by James Haywood at Just Another Activist The week just gone has been an excellent one for student activism for Palestine in the UK. The NUS executive council finally adopted a policy that clearly defended Palestinian human rights, and pledged to send NUS officers on future flotillas sailing […]

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  • Ali Abunimah: DePaul students vote by large margin to ban Sabra hummus

    Posted on May 21, 2011

    Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada discussed DePaul students’ recent vote to ban Sabra hummus: Students at DePaul University in Chicago voted by a large margin in a referendum asking if they support ending sales of Sabra brand hummus on their campus. Due to a technicality, however, the result will not be binding. A note […]

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  • Europe’s largest student union endorses BDS

    Posted on May 18, 2011

    The University of London Union (ULU)  has voted 10-1 to institute and campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in support of Palestine. The motion called for “thorough research into ULU investments and contracts” with companies guilty of “violating Palestinian human rights” as set out by the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC). Ashok Kumar, Senate member for […]

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  • AMARC: World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Joins BDS Movement

    Posted on January 22, 2011

    Recently, in La Plata, Argentina, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)  joined the BDS movement. See below for the AMARC statement and a solidarity statement from Tadamon! Montreal. AMARC 10 motion to support Palestinian civil society call for BDS (Spanish and French available here) –Whereas Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people comprises the […]

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  • Tourism Minister: U.K., Spain to boycott OECD tourism conference because it’s in Jerusalem

    Posted on October 9, 2010

    Palestinians pressure Europe to shun October conference on sustainable tourism, which normally takes place in Paris. By Irit Rosenblum Britain and Spain will not send delegates to the OECD’s biannual tourism conference on October 20-22, because it will be held in Jerusalem, Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beiteinu ) said yesterday. This is only the […]

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  • Spain, Britain to boycott Jerusalem tourism confab

    Posted on October 9, 2010

    October 6, 2010 MADRID, Spain (JTA) — Spain and Britain will boycott an international tourism conference being held in Jerusalem. The two countries will not send delegates to attend the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s biannual tourism conference to be held in Jerusalem Oct. 20-22. The OECD normally holds its gatherings on sustainable tourism […]

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  • PRESS RELEASE – SA UNIVERSITY: Conditional termination with Israeli institution

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    29 September 2010 This afternoon, after what was described as a “most tense” Senate meeting, UJ”s highest academic body voted to conditionally end its Apartheid-era relationship with Ben-Gurion University (BGU). A fact-finding investigation conducted by the University confirmed BGU”s links with the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) and complicity in the Israeli occupation. Against the backdrop […]

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  • Gaza Academics and Students: U. of Johannesburg’s Decision to Condition Ties with Ben Gurion University, a Step in the Right Direction

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    Besieged Gaza, University Teachers” Association Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel 30.September.2010 Gaza Academics and Students: U. of Johannesburg”s Decision to Condition Ties with Ben Gurion University, a Step in the Right Direction University Teachers” Association in Palestine and Palestinian Students” Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel welcome the decision taken […]

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  • South Africa Champions the Academic Boycott of Israel

    Posted on October 3, 2010

    PACBI | 30 September 2010 We can easily be enticed to read reconciliation and fairness as meaning parity between justice and injustice. Having achieved our own freedom, we can fall into the trap of washing our hands of difficulties that others face. Yet we would be less than human if we did so. It behooves […]

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  • BNC welcomes cancellation of visit by settlement mayors to Netherlands

    Posted on September 25, 2010

    Occupied Palestine, 23 September 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, warmly salutes the decision taken by the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), in consultation with the Dutch Foreign Ministry, to cancel a visit by Israeli […]

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