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Campaign Launched to Clear Azzeh Refugee Camp (Bethlehem) of Israeli Products
1 March 2010 – Today marks the first day of Israeli Apartheid Week in cities around the world. The week of activities, which was started by a group of activists in Toronto, Canada in 2005, has grown to become one of the main highlights of global activism in support of the rights of Palestinians, and […]
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Campaign Launched to Clear Bethlehem University of Israeli Products
4 March 2010 – Dozens of students at Bethlehem University spread out through their campus today asking other students to sign a petition that calls on the university administration to ban Israeli products from their campus. The petition states that “Israeli products are found in all parts of the university campus, and include cafeteria food, […]
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Full-Circle of The Waiting Game: Total Boycott Against Total Occupation
Antoine Raffoul “¢ Mar 8th, 2010 We are inspired now to put a halt to the arguments that call for a selective boycott of Israel, and to those voices which warn us Palestinians (and many internationalists, for that matter) who criticise Israel for fear of being labelled ‘anti-semites’ (although we are Semites). We challenge politicians […]
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H&M Don’t Buy into Occupation
This campaign builds on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) call made by the Palestinian civil society in 2005 and the international BDS movement that followed. Inspired by the non-violent struggle against the Israeli occupation and oppression of Palestine, we acted when we heard that H&M were about to open seven stores in Israel. To […]
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Join the Second Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2010
BNC Call for Action The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The BNC calls on people of conscience and […]
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H&M’s new collection: military uniforms?
Today, H&M is opening its first store in Israel and all over the world people are protesting. H&M”s establishment will legitimize Israel”s unlawful occupation of Palestine. Shop at H&M if you want the longest occupation in modern time to last even longer! H&M, who claim to follow UN guidelines, should take note of the UN”s […]
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Adding H&M to the Boycott List
Welcome! H&M in Israel Dear all, As you might have heard H&M is opening its first out of six planned stores in Israel on the 11th March, and they are proudly doing so. The text below is a quick translation from Swedish (pardon the bad translation). H&M is a Swedish company therefore the BDS affiliated […]
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Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
rabble.ca by Judy Rebick | March 2, 2010 Before Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) even began members of the Ontario Legislature and the Canadian Parliament are falling all over each other to denounce it. I can”t remember another time when elected legislators formally denounced a student activity like this. Perhaps during the 1950″s when McCarthyism was […]
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IN PICTURES / Are boycotts and sanctions really effective?
When it comes to the Middle East and other areas of the world, a certain word seems to have taken over the current affairs agenda: sanctions. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using every possible platform to call for painful sanctions against Iran, Israel’s ambassadors are busy contending with a movement that is calling for […]
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