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French academics join the call for boycott
Friends, Attached are French and English versions of a text signed by French academics who declare they wouldn’t collaborate with Israeli institutions participating in the occupation and demand the adoption of a policy of sanctions against Israel. Please send around, Thanks, Israel’s impunity must end Reports have made it clear that Israel’s actions in Gaza […]
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US activists urge boycott of Israeli companies
International outrage at the war on Gaza has triggered calls to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. Just this week, student activists at a small US college said they persuaded their university to divest from corporations that support Israeli occupation. A movement like the one that ended South African apartheid may be tough to build in […]
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Protestors: Batsheva ‘dancing on Gazans’ graves’
People arriving at Israeli dancers’ performance in Chicago greeted by dozens of people wearing bandages smeared with fake blood to represent Palestinian casualties in Gaza Ynetnews People arriving at a performance by Israeli dancers’ in Chicago on Sunday were greeted by dozens of people protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza, the Chicago Progressive Examiner reported Thursday. […]
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Students angered by Gaza revive sit-ins
* Alexandra Topping * The Guardian, Saturday 14 February 2009 A new wave of student activism sparked by events in Gaza has seen dozens of university buildings occupied in Britain, with some of the UK’s top educational establishments agreeing to set up scholarships for Palestinians or disinvest in arms companies linked to Israel. Though the […]
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Educators of Conscience Call for an Academic Boycott of Israel
February 13, 2009 · No Comments by J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. On Monday, February 2, 2009, scholar Benny Morris gave a lecture, “The First Arab-Israeli War,” at Wesleyan University, which was sponsored by the Jewish and Israeli Studies Certificate Program. As a New Historian who supports Zionist ideology, Morris is one of Israel”s most distinguished […]
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Call from the Boycott National Committee for a Day of Action
Made at the World Social Forum During the World Social Forum, which once again brought together over 100,000 activists from around the world, a Global Day of Action in Solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched. The Day of Action is to be held on March […]
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Divesting from Israel’s “Weapon of Mass Destruction”
by Stuart Littlewood / February 13th, 2009 God whispered in the Church of England”s ear and it dumped its shares in Caterpillar. This House of God had about £2.5m invested in a company that manufactures one of Israel”s weapons of mass misery and destruction. After saying for years that they couldn”t see anything unethical about […]
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A Campus Sit-in against Israeli Occupation
by Ron Jacobs / February 13th, 2009 On Friday, February 6, the University of Rochester-SDS (UR-SDS) organized an occupation of Goergen Hall at the University of Rochester for peace and solidarity with the Palestinians. The action was partially inspired by the wave of occupations across the UK in support of Palestine the past few weeks. […]
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Hampshire Is First to Divest
by Gary Lapon / February 13th, 2009 The Hampshire College Board of Trustees voted to transfer assets from a fund that invests in corporations that contribute to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, making Hampshire the first institution of higher education in the U.S. to divest. A range of organizations came out in Amherst, Mass., on […]
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US college cuts ties with Israeli occupation-affiliated businesses
Bethlehem – Ma”an – Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts has become the first of any college or university in the US to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The landmark move is a direct result of a two-year intensive campaign by the campus group, Students for […]
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