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Open Letter to Akiva Tor from an Educated Palestinian American – Dina Omar
Published as a response to Akiva Tor”s article in ZEEK, May 20, 2010 Dear Consul General Tor: Your response to Moshe Yaroni”s essay about the Berkeley divestment discussion is manipulative and threatening. It repeats many distortions that have been thoroughly refuted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UC Berkeley. Worst of all, however, […]
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Music stars’ boycott rocks Israel
Vita Bekker, Foreign Correspondent * Last Updated: May 21. 2010 10:53PM UAE / May 21. 2010 6:53PM GMT TEL AVIV // Israel”s occupation of the Palestinian territories is again drawing international condemnation – this time from the music industry. In what activists for Palestinian rights say is a major boost to their goal of spurring […]
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COOP AND NORDICONAD SUPERMARKET CHAINS SUSPEND SALES OF PRODUCTS FROM THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
An important success for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid May 22, 2010 – Following lobbying efforts by the Italian Coalition Against Carmel-Agrexco, two major Italian supermarket chains, COOP and Nordiconad, announced the suspension of sales of products from Agrexco, the principal exporter of produce from Israel and the illegal Israeli […]
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Varsity row over Israel links
LIONEL FAULL – May 21 2010 12:00 The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is considering cutting academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in protest against Ben Gurion’s alleged association with Palestinian human rights abuses. An “extraordinary” meeting of the university’s senate debated the matter on Monday. The university’s current partnership with Ben Gurion dates from […]
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Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, May 20, 2010 (IPS) – Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank. “This is economic terrorism,” complained the Yesha Council (YC), an umbrella organisation of municipal […]
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Boycotts are bustin’ out all over
Friday, May 21, 2010 Have you heard the boycott news? Singer/songwriter/rock-n-roller Elvis Costello has not only canceled two gigs in Israel, but he’s come out with a powerful public statement of his support for boycott: “One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or […]
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JUNE 2: NO DANCING ON GAZA’S GRAVES!
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm Location: Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave. Reject business as usual with Israel and protest Israel’s participating in the Chicago Sister City International’s Consular Corps Ball! WHEN: Wednesday, 2 June 2010, 5:30pm WHERE: Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave. Join the Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago’s protest of […]
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Elvis Is King
For this in its entirety, and more specifically for this: [T]here are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung and it may be assumed that one has no mind for the suffering of the innocent. […]
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Following Boycott Calls, Elvis Costello Cancels Israel Concerts
The rock musician Elvis Costello has canceled a pair of upcoming concerts in Israel in response to boycott calls from Palestinian solidarity activists. In a statement, Costello said, “I must believe that the audience…would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or […]
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OECD rewards Israel’s occupation
Despite Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development recently agreed to let it join, writes Brian Napoletano. May 20, 2010 THE GOVERNMENTS of the 31 member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) all agreed on May 10 that Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, […]
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