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Norway fund expels Israel firm for barrier work
OSLO, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Norway’s $400 billion-plus wealth fund has excluded Israeli company Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA) for supplying surveillance equipment for the separation barrier in the West Bank, the government said on Thursday. “We do not wish to fund companies that so directly contribute to violations of international humanitarian law,” Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen […]
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Briefing: The investment of the Norwegian Pension Fund in Elbit Systems: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law violations in Palestine
This briefing was created for the Norwegian Pension Fund to demand divestment from Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is one of the largest Israel “security” and “defence” companies. It is key in manufacturing a variety of weapons used against both the Palestinian and Lebanese people as well as providing technology used to secure the Wall and […]
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Toronto film festival protested for Tel Aviv spotlight
Press Release, PACBI, 31 August 2009 The following press release was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel on 27 August 2009: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is gravely concerned that the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2009 has decided to spotlight […]
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Cosmetics Company Uses Kristin Davis and Then Kicks Her Out
By Brian Moylan, 2:18 PM on Thu Sep 3 2009 Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, hired Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis to help their image. Because she worked with the disputed company, she got the boot from human rights group Oxfam International. Now Ahava is giving her the heave-ho too! In August, Page Six reported […]
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Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
By Cecilie Surasky, AlterNet. Posted September 1, 2009. An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law. Few global-justice campaigns are more polarizing, even explosive, than the effort to use international boycotts, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its […]
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A modest proposal
By Rachel Giora Like the president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Prof. Rivka Carmi, I too believe the demand that Dr. Neve Gordon resign as head of the university’s Department of Politics and Government is a legitimate and even modest demand, given the financial damage the university will sustain if he fails to do […]
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TIFF focus on Tel Aviv draws Protest
International group of artists decries festival’s complicity with ‘Israeli propaganda machine’ Michael Posner Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 03, 2009 02:07PM EDT An international group of more than 50 prominent filmmakers, writers, artists and academics – including Ken Loach, David Byrne, Naomi Klein, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, Wallace Shawn and Danny Glover – has signed […]
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The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 An Open Letter to the Toronto International Film Festival: September 2, 2009 As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival”s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or […]
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Boycotts don’t equal censorship
Film-makers should support the growing international movement to boycott Israel – it’s wrong to cast our actions as censorship * Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien and Paul Laverty * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 September 2009 09.10 BST When we decided to pull our film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film festival following our discovery that […]
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Curators pull out of Tel Aviv art biennial over Gaza war protest
By Liora Kaplan Two international curators who were to participate in the planning of ArtTLV, an art biennial taking place in Israel in September, have pulled out of the project after their Israeli counterparts refused to publish articles condemning Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza and to arrange a symposium on art and war. The […]
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