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No Business as Usual with Israel: PACBI Salutes Faithless
PACBI | 15 August 2010 Occupied Ramallah, 15 August 2010 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the British dance group Faithless for declining to play in Israel this summer. The cancellation of the group”s Israeli gig is the latest in a string of cancellations of performances in Israel […]
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Israel at center of boycott row once again at Melbourne Film Festival
Filmmakers pull movie at Melbourne International Festival over Israeli government funding for coach plane ticket. By Rik McKenzie The Melbourne International Film Festival is a marquee event on the cultural calendar of Australia, in what some would call the world’s most livable and multicultural city. Once again, it was struck by controversy with independent film […]
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Harvard University fund sells all Israel holdings
No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC. 15 August 10 17:15, Hillel Koren In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. […]
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TAKE ACTION: Sign Petition to Cancel Study Abroad in Israel
The Education Abroad Program (EAP) Equality Coalition, a group of concerned faculty and students at UC Davis, is today presenting a letter endorsed by 389 signatories to Vice Provost William Lacy requesting that the university discontinue its Summer Program in Israel, opened this year. The letter contains both individual signatures and endorsements from organizations such […]
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WELCOME TO THE ISRAEL DIVESTMENT CAMPAIGN (IDC)
The IDC is qualifying a ballot initiative in California, titled the Divestment of State Retirement Funds from Israel Act, to require California’s public retirement systems, the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), to sell stocks held in companies that support Israeli settlements or provide military equipment and services to […]
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Dempsey calls on artists to boycott Israel
Singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey today called on artists around the world to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. The Dubliner backed about 150 Irish creative and performing artists who have already signed a pledge to boycott Israel until it ends its blockade of Gaza. Dempsey said he believed the recent commando attack on the […]
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Salfit chamber of commerce says boycott is ‘National duty’
Published today 12:02 SALFIT (Ma’an) — The Salfit Chamber of Commerce called for the clearing of the Palestinian market of settlement produce “as a national duty,” a statement read Saturday. The statement was distributed to traders and industrial workshops, which read that “morality and national duty calls on us all to boycott settlement goods and […]
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150 Irish artists pledge to boycott Israel
Singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey has called on artists around the world to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. The Dubliner backed about 150 Irish creative and performing artists who have already signed a pledge to boycott Israel until it ends its blockade of Gaza. Dempsey said he believed the recent commando attack on the […]
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A Jewish peace group grapples with BDS
by Jeff Warner on August 13, 2010 How can BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) contribute to bringing a just peace and prosperity to the people of Israel-Palestine? That is the question LA Jews for Peace has been grappling with as the BDS idea evolves into an international movement. LA Jews want to be part of […]
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A letter from an Israeli fan to LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem are a great band. Their song All My Friends was selected as 2007’s song of the year on my favorite music show, Hakatze (broadcast on the Israeli military radio station, by the way…) It will be great to have artists such as LCD Soundsystem perform here after Israel’s policies of violent siege, land […]
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