• IKEA’s answer to the 12 August open letter

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    Statement from IKEA on 23 August 2010 IKEA® is for the many, respecting individuals with different views and opinions. IKEA® stands neutral on political, religious or ethnical views. It is unthinkable for us to exclude any individual or group of individuals from being an IKEA® customer. We welcome all people to the IKEA® stores, independent […]

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  • Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Israeli companies

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Israeli companies Occupied Palestine Aug 23rd 2010 – The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) has divested from two Israeli companies, Africa Israel Investments and Danya Cebus, over their involvement in construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank . A government statement quoted the Norwegian Minister of Finance […]

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  • The BDS Movement: Now with Plasma TV’s.

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    August 24 2010 by Jesse Bacon Sue Fisckoff writes in the JTA about the off season preparations of Team Israel, aka Hillel, the Jewish student organization. The article highlights the very real panic the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement has caused and its automatic equation with anti-Semitism in the minds of some. Amanda Boris is nervous […]

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  • ‘McCarthyism’ Rises in Israel

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move is under way by right-wing parties in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to limit the freedom […]

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  • Activists tell shipping firm Zim — Israeli ships not welcome in Vancouver

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    By Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition | August 24, 2010 Vancouver – Port truck traffic slowed to a crawl along the Deltaport causeway as a group of about 50 protesters approached drivers with leaflets containing information about the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. They also offered the drivers coffee and muffins in a gesture of solidarity. […]

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  • Global boycott movement claims victories, arrests

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    Report, The Electronic Intifada, 24 August 2010 This week, the Norwegian government announced that it has divested from two major Israeli companies involved in settlement construction and land theft in the occupied West Bank. Both companies, Africa Israel Investments and its subsidiary, Danya Cebus, are owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, and have been at […]

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  • Church boycott calls ring louder

    Posted on August 28, 2010

    Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 25 August 2010 The world’s churches have long been one of the battlegrounds of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. With the strengthening of the BDS movement, a number of churches across the globe have seen the boycott of Israeli and Israeli settlement goods hotting up, and recent weeks […]

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  • Europe’s economic boycott of Israel expanding

    Posted on August 27, 2010

    Recent months see sharp rise in number of European companies withdrawing investment from Israeli firms for political reasons. ‘The damage is huge,’ says glass factory owner from Ariel Daniel Bettini The decision by Norway’s oil fund to withdraw its investment from Africa-Israel and Danya Cebus citing their involvement in settlement construction is the latest step […]

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  • An Assault on Israeli Academic Freedom–and Liberal Values

    Posted on August 27, 2010

    August 26, 2010 By Neve Gordon On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli […]

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  • An artist’s pledge to boycott

    Posted on August 27, 2010

    Opinion/Editorial Dave Lordan, The Electronic Intifada, 27 August 2010 The boycott movement threatens the visage of respectability and normality which the leaders of apartheid Israel so desperately crave. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign […]

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