• Australian boycott action against apartheid Israel

    Posted on March 23, 2009

    The campaign has been launched by The Coalition of Palestine Support Groups in Melbourne, Australia. Also attached is a roster for supporters who wish to volunteer their help in distributing “Dump Connex” leaflets. The first mass distribution will take place this Wednesday 25 March 2009, 7.00-9.00 am in Flinders Street under the clocks. The public […]

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  • Apartheid: From South Africa to Israel

    Posted on March 23, 2009

    Ronnie Kasrils, member of the African National Congress, said that Israel’s apartheid is far worse than the South African apartheid. In his recent talk, in Vancouver, BC, he explains why this is so.

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  • On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Eliminating Racial Discrimination Against Palestinians Means Joining the Movement Against Israel’s Apartheid

    Posted on March 22, 2009

    [BADIL, Occupied Bethlehem] March 21 was selected as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination because it is the day in 1960 when police forces killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against the apartheid “pass law” system in Sharpeville, South Africa. Today an equal if not more extensive pass law system dominates […]

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  • Fraudulent Aldi are selling Israeli grapefruit labeled: “Produce of Cyprus”

    Posted on March 22, 2009

    Monday March 16, 2009 15:16 by DunloT – Free Palestine Campaign Cypriot Embassy orders Aldi to remove all references to Cyprus on the produce they misleadingly sell For the past number of weeks, disreputable Aldi have been fraudently selling Israeli ruby red grapefruit labeled; Produce of Cyprus and this offence is being currently investigated by […]

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  • Cesar Chavez Day and Global Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Action Day

    Posted on March 22, 2009

    From la Frontera to Gaza: Chicano-Palestinian Connections Monday March 30 2009 12.00-3.30 pm Taper Hall of the Humanities (THH) 101 Free and open to the public During the Israeli offensive on Gaza, it was often asked, “What if a terrorist group were lobbing rockets into San Diego out of Tijuana?” The analogy was tendentious and […]

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  • GOODBYE MOTO! GOODBYE APARTHEID!

    Posted on March 22, 2009

    Join the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI) as we launch our city-wide boycott of Motorola! Monday, March 30 7:45-9:30 am Motorola”s NYC Headquarters 335 Adams St., Brooklyn (A,C,F to Jay St./Borough Hall, 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall, M,R to Court St./Borough Hall or to Lawrence St./Metro Tech) Why Boycott? In the wake […]

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  • Report: UK economic links with Israeli settlements

    Posted on March 21, 2009

    Report, Profundo, 18 March 2009 The following is the edited summary of the research paper, “UK economic links with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.” The paper was prepared for the Sir Joseph Hotung Programme for Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London […]

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  • Ann Arbor call for BDS at People’s Food Coop

    Posted on March 20, 2009

    Public Commentary Henry Herskovitz: Herskovitz noted that the day marked the sixth anniversary of the death in Rafah of Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, who on March 16, 2003 was crushed by bulldozer (manufactured in the U.S.) driven by a soldier-driver with the Israeli military. Herskovitz described her death as a “murder.” He said that […]

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  • MSA submits boycott call to ASI

    Posted on March 20, 2009

    Randi Johns Published: Thursday, March 19, 2009 Updated: Friday, March 20, 2009 Associated Students Inc. listened to the first reading, as well as passionate public comments, of a new resolution regarding the Gaza Strip at Wednesday”s ASI Senate meeting. The Muslim Student Association (MSA) brought to the senate a resolution calling for an end to […]

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  • Responding to the call to protest apartheid

    Posted on March 20, 2009

    Comment: Mike Marqusee An action by South African dockworkers is one of the most important in the growing international solidarity movement against Israeli apartheid, writes Mike Marqusee. March 17, 2009 SOMETHING SPECIAL took place in Durban last month when dockworkers, members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), refused to unload a […]

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