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Italian Professors Call for Academic Boycott of Israel
A group of Italian professors recently published a letter calling for the academic boycott of Israel “against university and cultural discrimination of Palestinians.” The document–called “Right to study and academic freedom in Palestine”–expressly quotes the AIC bulletin Academic Boycott of Israel and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in the Occupation of Palestinian Territories. The […]
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Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel?: A Debate on BDS
In 2005, a coalition of Palestinian civil society groups called for people all over the world to engage in a non-violent campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel until it complies with international law. The call was inspired by the international boycott and divestment initiatives applied to South Africa in the struggle to abolish […]
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Moment of truth: time to boycott Israel’s entire range of injustice
Rifat Kassis, The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2010 Words always matter, and names always have a life of their own. But perhaps Palestine and Israel form a context in which words become positions more dramatically than in many others. The authors of the “Moment of Truth” Kairos document, which is the Christian Palestinians’ statement to […]
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Boycott, Divest From, and Sanction Israel?: A Debate on BDS With Omar Barghouti and Rabbi Arthur Waskow
In 2005, a coalition of Palestinian civil society groups called for people all over the world to engage in a non-violent campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel until it complies with international law. The call was inspired by the international boycott and divestment initiatives applied to South Africa in the struggle to abolish […]
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PROJECT: Boycott, Divest, Sanction Published as a supplement to al-Akhbar newspaper, Thursday, February 25, 2010
Objective: Jamaa al-Yad is a cultural association the aim of which is the research, implementation, dissemination, and reestablishment of various cultural manifestations including but not limited to craft, design, and art, by focusing on the local, vernacular, indigenous, and popular, using methodologies and means that ideologically reflect models of collaboration, co-operation, and communality, in the […]
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The Israeli Occupation as an Apartheid System
During the sixth International Israeli apartheid week, the Alternative Information Center is hosting events and lectures. On 2 March, Hazem Jamjoum of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights discussed about Israeli apartheid system in the AICafé. On this occasion we interviewed him. Why can the Israeli occupation be considered an apartheid […]
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Inside Story – Israeli apartheid week
A controversial campaign in the Western world links Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the treatment of blacks in apartheid South Africa, called the Israeli apartheid week. Inside Story asks: Is criticism of specific Israeli policies raising doubts about Israel’s right to exist? And is Israel now on the PR offensive to fight back?
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A Community Debate: Achieving a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
Is the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Campaign a help or hindrance? Zeev Maoz & Omar Barghouti Sunday, March 7, 2010, 7pm Doors open at 6:30pm Veterans Memorial 203 E. 14th St, Davis $5 suggested donation Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher, commentator and human rights activist and is a founding member of the […]
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Palestinian Boycott Leader Challenges SF Jewish Federation
by Omar Barghouti, a leader of the international movement to boycott Israel Open Letter to Rabbi Doug Kahn Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council It has recently come to my attention that pending the advice of a working group of which you were a member, the Jewish Community Federation has chosen to itself […]
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Size doesn’t matter …but apartheid does
March 2, 2010 Link newspaper Concordia University, by Aaron Lakoff The sixth annual Israeli Apartheid Week is back again in Montreal, and will be featuring events on three campuses in the city from March 4 to 11. Every year for the last six years, many cities (43 cities participated last year) around the world join […]
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