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BNC Statement in Support of Israeli Apartheid Week
Monday, 01 March 2010 22:29 Occupied Palestine, 1 March 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) salutes the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), which will take place in over 40 cities this year. For the first time, IAW will see activities in Gaza City, where Palestinians continue to resist Israel”s […]
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Israel and Apartheid: Is It a Fair Comparison?
by Edward C. Corrigan / March 1st, 2010 There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-7 2010).1 A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament which was unanimously supported (only 30 MPPs voted) and declared the comparison of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinians to apartheid as “odious.” To […]
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Sixth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week
New York City will be participating in this year’s 6th annual International Israeli Apartheid Week. It will be the 4th year of events here in NYC. For additions/changes to the schedule, please check the NYC section of the international website for updates. http://newyork.apartheidweek.org/ The New York organizing coalition can be e-mailed at: ApartheidWeekNYC[at]gmail.com Please note […]
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Land Day to be marked with Global BDS Day of Action
Statement, Palestinian BDS National Committee, 1 March 2010 The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The BNC calls on […]
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Boycott committee rejects French PM’s smearing of movement
Statement, Palestinian BDS National Committee, 1 March 2010 The following press released was issued by the Palestinian BDS National Committee on 25 February 2010: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) is deeply disturbed by the inaccurate and inflammatory insinuations made by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon during his speech at the annual dinner […]
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An Open Letter to the Pixies
March 1, 2010 Dear Pixies, We are a group of Israeli human rights activists. We heard through the media that you are planning a concert in Israel in June. As much as some of us are huge fans and would love to hear your show, we won’t cross the international picket line that is growing […]
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Universities across the globe mark Israeli Apartheid Week
By Danna Harman, Haaretz Correspondent in Europe LONDON – A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as “Israeli Apartheid Week” – and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia […]
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Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week
Ilaria Giglioli, The Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2010 In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was […]
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BDS Bus Ad Sightings
Hewlett Packard, 7/11 and Kimberly Clark/Unicef/Pampers also profit from Israeli Apartheid and this February, Bay Area artists culture jammed about those ties. The group used the whoprofits database to fact check their information and created faux ads that were installed in San Francisco and the East Bay. Hewlett Packard, 7/11 and Kimberly Clark/Unicef/Pampers also profit […]
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Omar Barghouti : Co-founder of the Global BDS Movement & PACBI
Palestinian academic, commentator, human rights activist and co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) along with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), Omar Barghouti discusses the formation of BDS, the profiteering and aiding and abetting of unethical multinational companies such as CRH (a.k.a, Cement Roadstone […]
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