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Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 22 September 2010 On 23 September, Denmark’s Social Democrat party will have a decisive influence on a Copenhagen city council vote on whether the municipality should divest $2.3 million from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The divestment measure was already voted on […]
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OLMV – Jess Ghannam & Nada Elia talk BDS with hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman
One Land, Many voices – Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Jess Ghannam join hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman for an extended discussion of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions Movement. One Land, Many Voices, March 26th, 2010, 9:00AM-10:00AM: KBOO Community Radio Click here to listen to the show: > > >One Land, Many Voices – September 24, 2010 […]
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Letter from Gaza Academics and Students: Eight American Universities Normalize Occupation, Colonization and Apartheid!
Besieged Gaza, 24.September.2010 At a time when the Israeli ongoing crimes against us the Palestinians are at their most visible, their most documented and their most condemned by civil society around the world, we were shocked to learn of the plans by the Universities of Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, Washington, Miami and New Jersey […]
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SOUTH AFRICAN ACADEMICS CALL FOR UJ TO TERMINATE RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAELI INSTITUTION
PETITION to sever links with Ben Gurion University www.ujpetition.com This petition was first disseminated on the 05th of September, within two days it was signed by over 100 South African academics from more than 12 SA universities. To date it has more than 200 signatories from 22 academic institutions. Supported by: Professors Kader Asmal, Allan […]
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New pressure on UJ to sever Israel ties
DAVID MACFARLANE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Sep 24 2010 06:00 Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana and author Breyten Breytenbach have added their voices to calls for the University of Johannesburg to sever academic ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The cooperation between the two universities dates from the 1980s, when […]
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BDS Campaign – Boycott Israel Movement Grows
By Eric Walberg 9-21-10 The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign moves ahead in Washington, California, British Columbia, Harvard and Brown Universities, and the Netherlands, notes Eric Walberg In July, in Rachel Corrie’s hometown of Olympia, Washington state, the popular Food Co-op announced that no Israeli products would be sold at its two grocery stores. Archbishop […]
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Celebrities cultural boycotting Israel
The issue of Israeli settlements has captured attention far beyond the arena of international politics. Several celebrities have now thrown their weight behind what is being termed a “cultural boycott” against further building on Palestinian land. But with Israel’s construction freeze due to expire at the end of the month, there are doubts that these […]
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Boycott Israel and make a difference
Dutch rejection of colony “mayors’ is part of a worldwide refusal to tolerate Tel Aviv The Dutch government should be strongly congratulated on standing up for international law, and stopping five “mayors’ of illegal Israeli colonies on the West Bank from joining other Israeli mayors in taking part in a professional study tour in the […]
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US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel – Bulletin No. 1
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