• UMass Boston Faculty Call on TIAA-CREF to Divest from Israeli Occupation

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    September 20, 2010 – Faculty and staff at the University of Massachusetts Boston asked the non-profit investment firm TIAA-CREF to divest its holdings from companies that do business with the Israeli Occupation at the company CEO”s public address on campus last Monday. Faculty presented TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson with a letter requesting that the firm […]

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  • Campagne BDS í  la braderie de Lille

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    Trí¨s forte affluence ce week-end au stand EuroPalestine de la braderie de Lille, oí¹ des centaines de personnes ont signé la pétition de soutien aux militants de Mulhouse appelés í  comparaí®tre en procí¨s lundi prochain, et tenu í  acheter les míªmes T.Shirts que ceux qu”ils portent. La preuve que les méthodes d”intimidation ont l”effet inverse […]

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  • Sephora! Pas de beauté sans liberté

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    Nous sommes réunis en solidarité avec les 5 militants du collectif Boycott de Mulhouse qui doivent comparaitre en justice lundi prochain et avec notre amie Sakina Arnaud de Bordeaux dont la comparution en appel aura lieu le 24 septembre. Cette judiciarisation de nos actions de solidarité internationale vise í  nous intimider et í  nous épuiser […]

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  • Israeli Beauty Products Company Ahava Complicit in the Sins of Occupation

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    By Alex Kane, AlterNet Posted on September 18, 2010, Printed on September 20, 2010 Walk into any Ricky’s store, a beauty shop chain in New York, and you will find a shelf filled with Ahava products. For $28, you can buy mineral toning cleanser; for $22, Dead Sea liquid salt; and for $9, purifying mud […]

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  • CARE Board Member Takes Leave of Absence over Employer’s Support for Israeli Settlements

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    For Immediate Release September 7, New York, NY – A member of the board of directors of the leading international humanitarian aid organization CARE USA has taken a voluntary leave of absence from CARE”s board due to the involvement of his employer, Africa Israel, in Israeli settlement activities. The move last week came after a […]

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  • Netherlands cancels tour by Israeli mayors over settlers’ presence

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    Dutch Foreign Ministry cancels tour because participant list includes settlement representatives. By Jonathan Lis The Netherlands on Sunday cancelled a tour of the country by a forum of Israeli mayors because their group included representatives of West Bank settlements. The professional delegation, funded by the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish-American charity, was supposed to fly […]

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  • Unease over Jordan-Israel trade

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    Suha Philip Ma”ayeh, Foreign Correspondent * Last Updated: September 19. 2010 10:49PM UAE / September 19. 2010 6:49PM GMT ZARQA, JORDAN // Israel”s announcement last week that it planned to export 50,000 used cars to Jordan and Iraq created unease among Jordanian second-hand car dealers while advocates against normalising relations with Israel stepped up calls […]

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  • LEGAL ACTION AGAINST AGREXCO

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    AGAINST THE CRIME OF COLONISATION (Created by law n°2010-930 of August 9 2010) FRENCH ORGANISATIONS BRING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE ISRAELI COMPANY CARMEL-AGREXCO PRESS CONFERENCE Wednesday September 15th at the headquarters of the Confédération Paysanne 104 rue Robespierre – 93170 Bagnolet (FRANCE), M° Gallieni The Confédération Paysanne, UJFP (Union of French Jews for Peace), The […]

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  • Press Release: USACBI Announces Over 500 Academics Have Endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) http://usacbi.wordpress.com/ Over 500 academics have endorsed USACBI! “We have to be careful not to over-exaggerate on this, but we also have to be careful not to ignore it,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University and co-founder of the International […]

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  • Open Letter to Filmmaker Stephen Frears

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    DON”T NORMALIZE APARTHEID, WITHDRAW FROM HAIFA 2010 September 18th, 2010 Dear Stephen Frears: As fellow artists who have been critical of the state of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinian people, we were surprised to learn that your film “Tamara Drew” is scheduled to open the Haifa International Film Festival of 2010 (HIFF). While unable to […]

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