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In Queens, singing protesters urge Motorola boycott due to complicity in Israeli rights abuses
Astoria, NY, July 11 – Twenty New York human rights advocates captivated Astoria, Queens shoppers today with songs and street theater calling for a boycott of communications giant Motorola until it stops selling products that aid Israel”s army and settlement movement. Today”s protest outside a Sprint store selling Motorola cellphones on Steinway Street was the […]
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Brazilian soccer teams won’t play in Israel
Brasilia wants to hold friendly game between Sao Paulo’s Corinthians, Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo in Ramallah, with no plans to hold similar game in Israel. Decision said to cause diplomatic tensions between countries Diplomatic tensions have sparked recently between Israel and Brazil over none other than a soccer match, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday. The Brazilian […]
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HeidelbergCement tries to sell West Bank mines as legal, boycott pressures grow
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 13 July 2009 HeidelbergCement, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of building materials, has become the target of legal action in Israel because of its activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The company’s subsidiary, Hanson Israel, manufactures ready-made cement, aggregates and asphalt for Israel’s construction industry and operates a […]
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“Summer In The Streets” For Palestine Kicks Off With Theater, Song And Dance At Greeley Square
Media Contact: info[at]boycottisraelnyc.org For Immediate Release New York, NY, June 28 – Twenty New York activists performed near a street fair at Greeley Square in Manhattan on Saturday, calling for a boycott of communications giant Motorola until it stops providing technology to the Israeli army and settlement movement. It was the third action organized by […]
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“For Once, the Yes Men Say No”
by Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno July 1, 2009. Dear Friends at the Jerusalem Film Festival, We regret to say that we have taken the hard decision to withdraw our film, “The Yes Men Fix the World,” from the Jerusalem Film Festival in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (http://www.bdsmovement.net/). This decision does […]
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CSQ Passes a Resolution in Support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
SPHR and Tadamon! Congratulate the CSQ for Passing a Resolution in Support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Apartheid state of Israel. On June 28th, the Centrale des Syndicats du Québec (CSQ), which encompasses 11 federations that represent 230 unions with over 160,000 members, adopted a resolution in support of the BDS […]
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Israeli academic charged with war crimes to lecture on int’l law at Harvard
Alleged war criminal, Israeli Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who was recently appointed by Tel Aviv University as a lecturer in the faculty of law, is invited to a Harvard University seminar as an expert on international law. For those who do not recall, Sharvit-Baruch headed the international law division of the Israeli army during its criminal […]
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Argentinian singer urged to cancel performance at Israeli festival
Open letter, PACBI, 11 July 2009 The following open letter was sent to Argentinian musician Leon Gieco by the The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 9 July 2009: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is writing to express its grave concern about […]
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Leonard Cohen is not Playing in Ramallah!
PACBI Press Release Occupied Ramallah, 12 July 2009 PACBI has been heartened by the untiring efforts of BDS activists in the US and UK in organizing demonstrations and pickets at Leonard Cohen”s performances in advance of his planned concert in Tel Aviv later this summer. The call, “don”t Play Israel!” has been heard loud and […]
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Transcript of Naomi Klein Lecture in Ramallah
Below is a transcript of Naomi Klein’s speech at the BNC-organized event in Ramallah on 27 June 2009. The speech was transcribed and edited by Toufic Haddad for The Faster Times [Naomi Klein, June 27, Ramallah:] “This is I think the most emotional event I have ever done. I give speeches once in a while, […]
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