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Canadian filmmaker John Greyson Boycotts Tel Aviv Int’l LGBT Film Festival
March 7, 2009 TLVFEST / Yair Hochner Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, 2 Sprinzak St, 64738, Tel Aviv, Israel yairho@bezeqint.net Dear Yair: After much wrestling with these difficult issues, I”ve come to a decision: I can”t show Fig Trees in your festival, and I can”t go forward with my proposed film shoot in Israel. This choice has been […]
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Israel’s War Crimes
Published on Thursday, March 12, 2009 by Le Monde Diplomatique (France) Israel blamed its earlier wars on the threat to its security, even that against Lebanon in 1982. However, its assault on Gaza was not justified and there are international calls for an investigation. But is there the political will to make Israel account for […]
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No Dancing Around The Issues
by Eric Herschthal Staff Writer Ticket holders for Batsheva Dance Company”s show in Brooklyn last Thursday got another dance for free. More than twenty protestors staged an Arabic folk dance called dabke, chanted anti-Israel slogans, and held up signs with phrases like “Batsheva, Proud Ambassador of War Crimes” as part of a new focus to […]
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Campaign to boycott Israeli products takes its message to Qalqiliya
Qalqiliya – Ma”an – The Palestinian Popular Committee for boycotting Israeli products visited the West Bank city of Qalqiliya to promote its renewed campaign. The campaign recently redoubled its efforts in the northern West Bank, in hopes of convincing 50 localities to participate in the boycott. The strategy of the boycott is to deprive the […]
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Taking it to the supermarkets: EuroPalestine’s boycott action
Viva la France … EuroPalestine activists take it to the supermarket aisles. The solidarity whistling of this boycott army will put a smile on your face. Never mind not understanding French. The actions are loud and clear. avec la participation de plusieurs associations de la Campagne Boycott Israel Réalisation : l”équipe vidéo “PALESTINE VIVRA” [vodpod […]
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An Interview with Haider Eid
March 13 / 15, 2009 Massacre in Slow Motion By ERIC RUDER More than a month after Israel’s assault on Gaza ended, life for Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians continues to be a daily struggle. Israel maintains a suffocating siege that blocks the flow of basic staples, plunging the vast majority of residents into abject poverty. […]
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Teach in Gaza 2009: The latest chapter in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Presented by the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid-Southern California Public Teach-in Sunday, March 15 3 pm – 5 pm Culver City Veterans” Memorial Center 4117 Overland Avenue, at southwest corner of Culver and Overland Abundant parking, enter from Culver Boulevard map Guest Speaker: Mohammed Abed, Assistant Professor, CSULA. His recent research has focused on ethical […]
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Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
March 13, 2009 By Dr. Haidar Eid One of the most important outcomes of the Gaza massacre (2009) has been the unprecedented tremendous outpouring of popular support for the Palestinian cause; something the signatories of the Oslo accords (1993) must have not been happy with. The return of the pre-Oslo slogans of liberation, as opposed […]
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Students say: No business with apartheid Israel
A divestment teach-in at Temple University on March 5 put technology to use for Palestine as students here spoke directly with students from the Hampshire College divestment movement in Massachusetts through the power of Skype, an Internet telephone program. Temple Students for Justice in Palestine hosted the teach-in as part of Boycott Israeli Apartheid week. […]
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USC students protest for Palestine
By John Osmand | March 13, 2009 LOS ANGELES–Students held a memorial on March 4 for Palestinians killed in Gaza and elsewhere, and delivered a letter to the president of the University of Southern California (USC), demanding academic freedom for Palestinians, scholarships for 10 Palestinian students and educational supplies to be delivered to universities in […]
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