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BDS growing in Germany
The Berlin BDS group (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) will demonstrate on July 9th in Berlin against Rheinmetall, a German firm which is in a joint venture with Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd (IAI) to provide Heron drones for use by the Bundeswehr (German military) in Afghanistan. German soldiers have been trained in Israel to use the drones. […]
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Toronto 5th anniversary event + unnanounced surprise (watchout for the video!)
GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA: EYEWITNESS REPORTS Featuring flotilla survivors Farooq Burney and Kevin Neish Submitted by jenny on June 30, 2010 – 3:06pm Start: Jul 8 2010 6:30 pm GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA: EYEWITNESS REPORTS Featuring flotilla survivors Farooq Burney and Kevin Neish P U B L I C F O R U M Thursday, July 8, […]
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IKEA furnishing the occupation
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 5 July 2010 Swedish Radio reported on 23 June that home furnishings retail giant IKEA in Israel discriminately ships to Israel’s illegal settlements but not Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank. Swedish Radio’s correspondent in Israel, Cecilia Udden, explained that she was moving to the Palestinian city of Ramallah […]
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Israel: A Failing Colonial Project
by M. Shahid Alam Increasingly, despite its early military and political successes, Israel cannot for long endure as a colonial project. It must choose between wars – and destruction – or transition to a state for all its peoples. In order to firmly secure its existence – as firmly as that is possible for any […]
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International Campaign to “Stop the JNF…Stop Greenwashing Apartheid”
Posted by RORCoalition on Mon, 07/05/2010 – 13:17 [??????? – Español – Franí§ais] Civil Society organizations have joined together to challenge the Jewish National Fund (JNF). Below is a call to join the campaign. For discussion and endorsement [For more, visit the StoptheJNF Campaign Website at: http://stopthejnf.bdsmovement.net] Stop the JNF…Stop Greenwashing Apartheid The Jewish National […]
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Ahava protest London
Demonstration today (03/07/2010) by Palestine solidarity campaigners outside the Israel Ahava shop in London’s Soho district; these protests are being held every two weeks and their success has generated a regular Zionist counter demo.
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Brand Israel: I Hear the Congo Has Some Lovely Views
Israel”s (fishy) acceptance into the OECD isn”t really a surprise, when you look into this Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: It defines itself as a forum of countries committed to democracy and the market economy… [Wikipedia] “Democracy” and “market economy” (aka “capitalism”) have long been Israel”s reiterated mantras, in an attempt to cosy up […]
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Gaza Freedom Graffiti in the Warsaw Ghetto
Monday 28th 2010 Yesterday, Israeli and Polish activists met in the ruins of Warsaw”s old Jewish Ghetto. The activists sprayed “Liberate All Ghettos” in Hebrew, followed by “Free Gaza and Palestine” in English on a wall of an original block in the ghetto. The block is across the street from the last fragment of the […]
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Swedish Dockworkers Block more than 500 Tons of goods to and from Israel
The Swedish Dockworkers” Union blockade of goods to and from Israel has ended. Altogether more than 500 tons of import and export goods were blocked. At 24:00 on Tuesday evening the 29th of June the Swedish Dockworkers” Union ended the week-long blockade against goods to and from Israel. The undramatic end of the action meant […]
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Swedish Civil Society Launch “IKEA, Don’t buy into occupation!” Campaign
Posted by RORCoalition on Fri, 07/02/2010 – 13:20 Click here to visit the Campaign page on facebook Open Letter from Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden Swedish Radio has revealed that IKEA delivers furniture to illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, despite the fact that these settlements are illegal according to international law. Thus IKEA […]
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