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Report: Jane Fonda joins boycott of Toronto film festival over homage to Israel
Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and Eve Ensler have joined the growing list of artists who are boycotting the Toronto film festival over a program honoring Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary, gossip blogger Perez Hilton reported on Friday. The three have added their names to a letter aimed at festival officials claiming that Tel Aviv was built […]
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Neve Gordon’s divisive Op-Ed
Ben-Gurion University’s president responds to one of her professor’s call for a boycott of Israel. By Rivka Carmi September 1, 2009 As president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, I have always remained open and impartial to the wide diversity of opinions within our academic faculty and their right to free speech, no matter how […]
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Call for Action: Tell IGLTA that Apartheid Israel is not for LGBT Leisure Tourism!
September 8th 2009 ISSUED BY: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Toronto Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Queer BDS activists from Israel On October 10-16, 2009, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) is planning to hold a tourism conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, aimed at boosting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) […]
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A big thank you
Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 4 September 2009 Israel’s wall as seen from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. (Fadi Arouri/MaanImages) 3 September 2009 Today was a unique day in the history of media coverage and discussion in Israel. All the electronic agencies, radio and television alike, discussed the occupation and the oppression of the […]
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On Rationalizing Israel’s Dispossession of the Palestinians
by Jeff Blankfort / September 5th, 2009 Hello Uri, I have just read your response to critics of your opposition to boycotting Israel and, having long ago realized the limits of your activism and worldview, it held no surprises. You have quite clearly invested too much time and energy over the years in rationalizing Israel”s […]
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APPEAL TO CATALONIAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS: Do not invite Israeli cultural ambassadors to the Catalonian Diada!
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) [1] salutes Catalonian citizens, Government and Parliament on the eve of Diada, the September 11th Catalonian National day. While you remember the bravery of the citizens of Catalonia and Aragon in resisting the absolutist Bourbon monarchy and commemorate the 1714 siege of Barcelona, […]
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BlackRock does not wish to explain
The British fiduciary BlackRock refutes information from Norwatch that they divested from a West Bank firm after pressure from Norwegian investors. But the company does not wish to precise exactly what they think is wrong in the coverage. Norwatch wrote last week that the British fiduciary BlackRock had sold its investments which were placed in […]
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Toronto film festival hit by cultural boycott over Tel Aviv strand
Ken Loach, David Byrne and Jane Fonda among those condemning festival directors’ choice of Tel Aviv for inaugural City-to-City Spotlight event * Ben Walters * guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 September 2009 15.40 BST The Toronto international film festival (TIFF) is under fire for selecting Tel Aviv as the subject of its inaugural City-to-City Spotlight strand. Ken […]
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Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
September 1, 2009 Gross Violations of Human Rights By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Netanyahu called for “crippling sanctions” against Iran. The kind of blockade that Netanyahu wants qualifies as an act of […]
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Economic retaliationӬ against Tel Aviv
This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel”s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal proceedings, so there are calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel tocomply with international law by Willy Jackson, Le Monde diplomatique. The boycott, divestment and sanctions […]
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