• Trader Joe’s: De-Shelve Israeli Products

    Posted on June 4, 2009

    June 6, 2009 Don Bane, Chairman and CEO Doug Rauch, President Charles J. Pilliter, SVP Operations Trader Joe”s Main Headquarters 800 S. Shamrock Ave. Monrovia, CA 91016 Dear Mr. Bane, Mr. Rauch and Mr. Pilliter, As people of conscience, we believe that business corporations need to uphold ethical standards that are consistent with the principles […]

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  • Don’t Buy Into Apartheid!

    Posted on June 4, 2009

    JOIN US AND TAKE ACTION!! We know stores in your area are carrying Israeli products. We are here to support you to ask these stores not to carry Israeli products. If they will not deshelve Israeli products, and voluntarily cleanse their shelves of products that support occupation and apartheid, we are here to provide resources […]

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  • Militarization of Tel Aviv University

    Posted on June 4, 2009

    Urgent Briefing Paper (to download pdf file click here: palsocontau_jan_2009_draft3) Tel Aviv University – A Leading Israeli Military Research Centre Prepared By SOAS Palestine Society, February 2009 In the rough and tumble reality of the Middle East, Tel Aviv University is at the front line of the critical work to maintain Israel”s military and technological […]

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  • Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters: Tear down the (West Bank) wall

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    Last update – 12:22 03/06/2009 By The Associated Press Pink Floyd’s former frontman Roger Waters said yesterday he’ll take to the stage the minute Israel tears down its West Bank separation wall, just as he did in Berlin two decades ago when another wall came down. Visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in the shadows of […]

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  • Company in Saudi rail project linked to Israel

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    By Abbas Al Lawati, Staff Reporter Published: May 30, 2009, 23:30 Dubai: A plan to link Makkah and Madinah by train has become the subject of controversy, as Palestinian officials try to persuade Saudi authorities to withdraw the rail contract from a company alleged to be complicit in Israel’s expansion in occupied East Jerusalem. Palestinian […]

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  • High Court accepts IDF criteria for Palestinian study in Israel

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    May 25, 2009 21:47 | Updated May 25, 2009 21:53 By DAN IZENBERG Despite strong objections from the Committee of University Heads, individual academics and the human rights organization Gisha, the High Court of Justice on Monday accepted the army’s non-security related criteria for granting Palestinian post-graduate students permits to enter Israel to study at […]

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  • The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa Closes Academic Track As Too Many Palestinian Students Registered

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    The Carmel Academic Center in Haifa shut down the concentration in accounting within its Department of Business Administration because a majority of the students applying were Palestinian citizens of Israel. This was revealed in a news item reported on Israeli news Channel 10 on 24 May (in Hebrew only). According to this report, just over […]

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  • British lecturers vote to boycott Israeli universities

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    British lecturers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli universities and colleges. At their annual conference, the lecturers said Israeli academics are complicit in their government’s oppression of Palestinians. However, as soon as the vote was carried it was declared null and void by the lecturers’ union because of legal threats. Roshan Muhammed Salih in Bournemouth […]

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  • Open Letter to Madonna: Boycott Israel

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    By Will Guest Post from Waleed. Madonna just confirmed her last 2009 tour date at Tel Aviv’s Yehoshua Gardens (HaYarkon Park) on September 1st. This is bound to be big news come tomorrow morning as this is going to put an end to all the rumors and speculations of her coming to the region. A […]

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  • “Boycotts work”: An interview with Omar Barghouti

    Posted on June 3, 2009

    Ali Mustafa, The Electronic Intifada, 1 June 2009 Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist and a leader of the Palestinian campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights. Barghouti discussed the growing worldwide campaign with The Electronic Intifada contributor Ali […]

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