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US-MIDEAST: Baseball Team Urged to Cut Ties with Israeli Group
By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (IPS) – A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the “violent and racist” Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets’ stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21. The Hebron […]
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The Jerusalem Light Railway Project: Effects and Legal Implications
Construction on the Jerusalem Light Railway (JLR) began in 2006 with the pretext of, “bringing immediate relief to traffic congestion” and “revitalizing the center of Jerusalem”. The project, slated for completion in 2010, is a public-private initiative that purports not to carry any political objectives or intention but instead serves to improve the public transportation […]
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Palestinians to Arab states: You can stop Jerusalem light rail
By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent The chairman of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office, Dr. Rafiq Husseini, on Monday urges all Arab countries to cancel their business ties with two French companies – Veolia and Alstom – involved in the construction of a Jerusalem-based light railway which passes through the West Bank. Husseini spoke in a […]
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Register Today for the Hampshire Campus BDS Conference
This fall from November 20th through the 22nd, students, faculty, and staff from around the country who are engaged in Palestine solidarity activism will converge for a conference on campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). This conference has three key goals: 1) To co-educate and share resources amongst campus organizers on the process of initiating […]
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Boycott Israeli Goods Sheffield
Sheffield PSC second visit to Waitrose to demonstrate opposition to their policy of selling Israeli goods produced on stolen Palestinian land. Build the boycott!
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Interview with single-state and BDS activist Dr. Haidar Eid
Dialogue : Could you speak to us about the origins and the objectives of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions ? Haidar Eid : The BDS call originated in 2004 when the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel was launched. In 2005, the BNC, or BDS National Committee, was launched combining more than […]
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Will the Jewish Federation of San Francisco drive more people into the arms of BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanction)?
Judith Butler, Ronnie Gilbert and Aurora Levins Morales respond Posted on November 16 2009 by Cecilie Surasky under BDS , Censorship. Here is an embarrassingly McCarthyite response to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival”s decision to a) screen the film Rachel by Jewish-Israeli filmmaker Simone Bitton, b) invite Cindy Corrie to speak and c) ask […]
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WEDNESDAY: Tell the Mets to Knock Racism Out of the Park!
Wednesday protest Tell the Mets & Major League Baseball Not to Support Violent, Racist Israeli Settlers Cancel the Hebron Fund”s dinner at Citi Field WHEN: Wednesday Nov 18, 12:30 – 1:30 PM WHERE: The office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball 245 Park Avenue (between 46th and 47th Streets, two blocks north of Grand […]
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VIDEO: Mandela’s cellmate says Israeli apartheid worse than South Africa
Achmad Cassiem is a veteran of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He joined the armed struggle for justice at age 15, and at the age of 17 he became one of the youngest people to be imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, where he served a total of 11 years. He is […]
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No Motion in Norway’s Academic Ocean: they didn’t even flip through the boycott motion text
By Mary Rizzo “¢ Nov 15th, 2009 Last week might have been a week when history was made. There would have been a precedent set that would from that point onwards made a change in very many ways, one comparable to fulfilling the request the ANC made in South Africa. At first, the ANC request […]
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