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TAU lecturer to urge London audience to boycott Israel
BY JONNY PAUL 17/02/2010 04:08 Matar will be speaking at London University”s School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), a campus renowned for anti-Israel activity. LONDON – Tel Aviv University senior lecturer Dr. Anat Matar will be the guest speaker Wednesday at a London event called “Supporting the Boycott of Israel: Campaigning from Within.” Matar, […]
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Settlement products destroyed in Salfit
Salfit – Ma’an – Crews from the caretaker Ministry of the Economy, customs officers and the Palestinian Authority preventive security department seized and destroyed 20,000 shekels (5,355 US dollars) of settlement goods on Wednesday, officials said. The economy ministry said the goods included detergents and plastic containers produced in the illegal settlement of Qarne Shomron, […]
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Attention Geographers! We cannot be neutral on a moving train!
Open Letter to the International Geographical Union (IGU) Click this link and go to the bottom of the page to sign on to this petition! As geographers, faculty, students, and people of conscience, we are profoundly dismayed by IGU”s decision to hold its July 2010 regional conference in Tel Aviv, in violation of the widely […]
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Join the ResisDance! Tell the Israel Ballet they can’t tip-toe around apartheid
Don’t Let the Israel Ballet Tip-Toe Around Apartheid! WHAT: Protest of the Israel Ballet WHEN: Sunday, February 21st, 2010 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM WHERE: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College at 2900 Campus Road 2 and 5 trains to Brooklyn College / Flatbush Avenue station (A bit further away is the […]
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Israel’s new strategy: “sabotage” and “attack” the global justice movement
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2010 An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel’s influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an “existential threat” to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to “attack” and possibly engage in criminal “sabotage” […]
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Settlement goods banned in PA-controlled cities
Ramallah – Ma’an – The cabinet of the Ramallah-based Palestinian government voted on Monday to approve a law prohibiting the entrance of settlement goods into areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. During the weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah, ministers said they approved the legislation as settlements amount to “an attack on the Palestinian territories, and […]
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UA: An honorable history of divestment
By Gabriel Schivone Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 After an intensive anti-sweatshop campaign last spring led by students in the Sweatshop-Free Coalition and University Community for Human Rights, President Robert Shelton had the UA divest our financial holdings in the Russell Corporation due to the company”s singularly cruel labor abuses in its factories in Honduras. […]
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Human rights violations: UA group calls for President Shelton to sever UAPD-Motorola contract
By Jennifer Koehmstedt Published: Monday, February 15, 2010 UA administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university”s contract with the Motorola Corporation. Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations because of contracts they have with the Israeli government, which is militarily occupying Palestinian lands. In 1999, the University […]
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Divestment campaign gains traction at U of Arizona
by Philip Weiss on February 16, 2010 Divestment is biting at the University of Arizona. Several articles about the campaign in the student newspaper. Here”s the lead: UA administrators are resisting a recommendation by UA students to terminate the university”s contract with the Motorola Corporation. Students say the company is complicit in human rights violations […]
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Shine A Light for Palestinian Freedom
Elton John is scheduled to perform in Apartheid Israel on June 17th, 2010. This performance would undermine the international cultural boycott of Israel, which was initiated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), as a means of non-violent resistance to Apartheid and Colonialism. In addition to normalizing the oppression […]
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