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H&M’s new collection: military uniforms?
Today, H&M is opening its first store in Israel and all over the world people are protesting. H&M”s establishment will legitimize Israel”s unlawful occupation of Palestine. Shop at H&M if you want the longest occupation in modern time to last even longer! H&M, who claim to follow UN guidelines, should take note of the UN”s […]
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Adding H&M to the Boycott List
Welcome! H&M in Israel Dear all, As you might have heard H&M is opening its first out of six planned stores in Israel on the 11th March, and they are proudly doing so. The text below is a quick translation from Swedish (pardon the bad translation). H&M is a Swedish company therefore the BDS affiliated […]
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Targeting Israeli Apartheid
by Stephen Lendman / March 6th, 2010 Reports like the Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council”s (HSRC) May 2009 one titled, “Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid” highlight what many others understand, including former UN Special Human Rights Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, John Dugard, stating in January 2007: “Israel is clearly in military occupation of the […]
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Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
rabble.ca by Judy Rebick | March 2, 2010 Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can”t remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950″s when McCarthyism was […]
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IN PICTURES / Are boycotts and sanctions really effective?
When it comes to the Middle East and other areas of the world, a certain word seems to have taken over the current affairs agenda: sanctions. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using every possible platform to call for painful sanctions against Iran, Israel’s ambassadors are busy contending with a movement that is calling for […]
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Israeli Apartheid Week: Beirut
by Daniel Drennan Two months ago a few students got together at the American University of Beirut and started planning a week of conferences, workshops, and actions based on the model offered by Israeli Apartheid Week which started six years ago in Toronto. A list of speakers was drawn up, and with nothing much to […]
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COSATU supports the International week against apartheid Israel
In Palestine there lives a peace-loving people like all of us, who look forward to enjoying a life of decency and dignity. These people once had a place they called their own; the land, the peace, the environment, the natural resources and all that they possessed then. It was so until the arrival of the […]
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Italian Professors Call for Academic Boycott of Israel
A group of Italian professors recently published a letter calling for the academic boycott of Israel “against university and cultural discrimination of Palestinians.” The document–called “Right to study and academic freedom in Palestine”–expressly quotes the AIC bulletin Academic Boycott of Israel and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in the Occupation of Palestinian Territories. The […]
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Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel?: A Debate on BDS
In 2005, a coalition of Palestinian civil society groups called for people all over the world to engage in a non-violent campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel until it complies with international law. The call was inspired by the international boycott and divestment initiatives applied to South Africa in the struggle to abolish […]
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Moment of truth: time to boycott Israel’s entire range of injustice
Rifat Kassis, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2010 Words always matter, and names always have a life of their own. But perhaps Palestine and Israel form a context in which words become positions more dramatically than in many others. The authors of the “Moment of Truth” Kairos document, which is the Christian Palestinians’ statement to […]
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