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Interview with UC Berkeley Divestment Organizers
We will also speak with two University of California, Berkeley students involved in the movement to get UC to divest from U.S. companies which profit from Israeli war crimes. Economics PHD candidate Emiliano Huett-Vaugn, who co-authored a Divestment Bill, which passed last week by the Student Senate.
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Israeli West Bank food company fakes address for EU markets
By Akiva Eldar Shamir Salads, an Israeli company located in the West Bank, is marketing its products in Europe using a false address west of the Green Line, violating an agreement between Israel and the European Union. Jewish activists last week gave the left-wing Gush Shalom movement a label from a Shamir Salads hummus tin […]
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Israel’s inclusion in economic organization a threat to democracy
Shir Hever, The Electronic Intifada, 25 March 2010 Membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes 30 of the world’s most developed countries, does not provide money or any special economic benefits. Yet it is easy to see why the Israeli government attributes great importance to Israel becoming one of its […]
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It is shameful that artists, for monetary gain, give legitimacy to a settler enterprize
Assaf Amdursky, Ivri Lider, Barry Sakharov, Shalom Hanoch, Arkadi Duchin and “The Friends of Natasha” are due to perform at the Mitzpe Shalem Settlement near the factory of the “Ahava” Company. It is shameful that artists, for monetary gain, give legitimacy to a settler enterprize. For monetary gain, well-known artists have agreed to participate in […]
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Basta: After veto of Berkeley divestment, the movement grows
The following is a communique from Berkeley SJP regarding ASUC President Will Smelko”s decision to veto last week”s successful divestment bill. March 25, 2010 Last night, UC Berkeley ASUC president Will Smelko vetoed “A Bill in Support of UC Divestment from War Crimes,” a bill which called on the ASUC and the UC to divest […]
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Will Smelko’s veto on SB118 – where do we go from here
Last night, UC Berkeley ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed ‘A Bill in Support of UC Divestment From War Crimes,’ a bill which called on the ASUC and the UC to divest funds from companies enabling war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, among other places, and which was passed by the student senate in a […]
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In the Final Analysis
By Sana A recent “policy paper,” written by McGill History professor Gil Troy and AICE”s Mitchell Bard, has been aggressively circulating around the internet. Supposedly to be presented at a meeting of Jewish scholars and activists in Israel, it condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a “full-blown political, economic, cultural, ideological struggle […]
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Send a letter to H&M!
Let H&M know what you think! Customers are in a powerful position to influence the decision of H&M to establish in Israel. By sending H&M a letter in an email or printed version you can make a difference for the Palestinian people! For a letter in English, click here For a letter in Swedish, click […]
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