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Ahava Occupied for a Second Time in Support with Palestine: global action in Washington, London and Amsterdam
Washington, London and Amsterdam Washington, D.C. CODEPINK Women for Peace September 19 protest action against Ahava VIDEO FROM September 19 AHAVA action in D.C. London, England Ahava Occupied for a Second Time in Support with Palestine http://jfjfp.com/?p=5546 Excerpt: At 11 a.m. on the 19th September two members of the International Solidarity Movement entered Ahava in […]
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Spain boycotts Ariel college for being on occupied territory
Spanish government, sponsor of Solar Decathalon, disqualifies architecture department of Ariel University Center of Samaria from finals. ‘10,000 students hurt by fight that is against international law,’ claims college Yaheli Moran Zelikovich. Ynet news. The Spanish Housing Ministry disqualified Ariel University Center of Samaria from competing in the finals of the international competition between university […]
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Announcing the 2009 Campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College
National Campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Conference endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel What & Where: 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 […]
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Hollywood fights back against anti-Israeli sentiment
Ad denounces boycott demands made at Toronto International Film Festival. By TINA DAUNT September 19, 2009 Left, right or center, there’s two things nearly everybody in Hollywood agrees on: There’s no disease that can’t be cured by raising enough money and the state of Israel deserves unabashed support. These days, sympathy for Israel puts the […]
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US Campaign’s longstanding endorsement of the boycott call
David Wildman and Amie Fishman, The Electronic Intifada, 21 September 2009 Thanks to Nada Elia for her article “A Turning Point in the US Solidarity Movement” (16 September 2009) and for her important role in cogently laying out the rationale for engaging in cultural and academic boycotts of Israeli institutions during the 8th Annual National […]
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Palestinian-Led Movement To Boycott Israel Is Gaining Support
“Our South Africa Moment Has Finally Arrived,” Says One Leader By Gal Beckerman Published September 16, 2009, issue of September 25, 2009. Uzbekistan-born diamond mogul Lev Leviev announced late in August that his company, Africa-Israel, was drowning in debt of more than $5.5 billion that it could not repay. Over the next two days, shares […]
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Spain excludes settlement university from academic competition
Jerusalem/Barcelona – The”University Center of Ariel in Samaria” has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain.With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments to boycott institutions and corporations involved with Israeli settlements and the Wall. . . “Ariel University Centre of Samaria” was one out of 21 […]
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Boycott movement derails Jerusalem’s transit system
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 18 September 2009 An ill-fated light railway under construction in Jerusalem was originally heralded by Israeli officials as a way to cement the city’s “unification” four decades after the city’s Palestinian half was illegally annexed to Israel. But the only unity generated among Jewish and Palestinian residents after four years […]
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British Unions Representing 6.5 Million Workers Endorse Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions on Israel
September 17, 2009 Toufic Haddad British trade unions representing 6.5 million workers have overwhelmingly passed a resolution voting to commit its members to participate in and build a campaign involving boycott, disinvestment and sanctions against Israel. The motion was passed at the 2009 annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) held in Liverpool after being submitted by […]
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A turning point for the US solidarity movement
Nada Elia, The Electronic Intifada, 16 September 2009 This weekend at the eighth annual US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation national organizers’ conference held in Chicago, delegates from the approximately 300 member groups that make up the US Campaign voted in favor of an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The vote came on […]
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