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Call for Action by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
1 June 2010 Palestinian civil society calls for intensifying boycott and sanctions as Israel massacres humanitarian relief workers and international solidarity activists Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) strongly condemns last night”s fatal attack by the Israeli navy on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid […]
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COSATU condemns Israeli state piracy
Cosatu 31 May 2010 Union federation outraged at murder of at least twenty people The Congress of South African Trade Unions is outraged at the murder by Israeli commandos’ of at least twenty people – and injuries to a further 60 – as a result of their armed attack on a convoy of ships carrying […]
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Women of Colour call on Joan Armatrading not to play Apartheid Israel
Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike Crossroads Women’s Centre 230A Kentish Town Road London NW5 2AB Tel: 44 (0)20 7482 2496 womenofcolour[at]allwomencount.net www.globalwomenstrike.net We call on Joan Armatrading, as a woman of colour who wrote a tribute to and performed for Nelson Mandela, and whose website says, “South Africa has always been close […]
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South African civil society outraged at Israeli massacre
Issued by the Coalition for a Free Palestine 31 May 2010 The undermentioned civil society organisations, including the Palestine solidarity movement in South Africa, the South African Council of Churches, and the Muslim Judicial Council, are outraged by the massacre committed by Israeli forces this morning, in flagrant violation of international maritime law. At 04:30 […]
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Israel reveals its true face: The murder of these peace activists will count. Sanctions must surely be the price
o Ahdaf Soueif o guardian.co.uk, Monday 31 May 2010 23.00 BST This will count. A flotilla of relief boats attacked in international waters. Armed commandos boarding a vessel carrying supplies for a besieged civilian population. More than 10 peace activists reported killed. This has to be made to count. The dead have joined Rachel Corrie, […]
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Pakistanis for Palestine condemns Israel’s attack on the International Freedom Flotilla
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 31-May-2010 Press Statement Pakistanis for Palestine condemns the naked aggression of the Israeli Defence Forces against the international “Freedom Flotilla”, the convoy of ships attempting to carry humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip that has been unilaterally blockaded by Israel since June 2007. The ships were in international waters, about 150 […]
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Palestinians boycott settlers
A comprehensive, cross-factional boycott of Jewish settlement products and produce has been launched across the West Bank, writes Khaled Amayreh There are as many as half a million Jewish settlers enjoying constant army protection in the West Bank. The vast majority of these are indoctrinated in an extreme right-wing ideology that views non-Jews living in […]
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Opération Boycott, Dijon 29/05/2010
Dijon 29/05/2010 rue de la liberté opération “Boycott”
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BDS at UC Berkeley: The Campaign, The Vote, and The Veto by Youmna Derby and Dina Omar*
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation […]
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USACBI DEMONSTRATES AGAINST RECOGNITION of SETTLER COLONIAL UNIVERSITY by ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
USACBI campaign members were joined by 15 members of Anti-Racist Network, USC SJP, Women in Black, the National Lawyers Guild and assorted individuals to protest recognition of settler colonial Ariel University by ISIS (International Society for Iranian Studies). Despite an ongoing campaign, including a Joint Letter by 120 academics, ISIS refused to drop the Ariel […]
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