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Universities across the globe mark Israeli Apartheid Week
By Danna Harman, Haaretz Correspondent in Europe LONDON – A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as “Israeli Apartheid Week” – and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia […]
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Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week
Ilaria Giglioli, The Electronic Intifada, 1 March 2010 In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was […]
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BDS Bus Ad Sightings
Hewlett Packard, 7/11 and Kimberly Clark/Unicef/Pampers also profit from Israeli Apartheid and this February, Bay Area artists culture jammed about those ties. The group used the whoprofits database to fact check their information and created faux ads that were installed in San Francisco and the East Bay. Hewlett Packard, 7/11 and Kimberly Clark/Unicef/Pampers also profit […]
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Omar Barghouti : Co-founder of the Global BDS Movement & PACBI
Palestinian academic, commentator, human rights activist and co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) along with the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), Omar Barghouti discusses the formation of BDS, the profiteering and aiding and abetting of unethical multinational companies such as CRH (a.k.a, Cement Roadstone […]
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Where’s BDS? Israeli firms to secure World Cup
by Bruce Wolman on February 25, 2010 For readers active in the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Movement, here is an obvious target that has been overlooked. According to today”s Jerusalem Post, “Over 30 Israeli companies are set to help South Africa secure this summer”s Soccer World Cup, via hi-tech security products ranging from rocket-proof […]
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Jewish Daily Forward and Chicago Public Radio cover BDS
Thursday, February 25, 2010 Two pieces on BDS in the mainstream press this week caught our attention. Israeli academic and author Neve Gordon spoke to Chicago Public Radio about his support of BDS, making the argument that by opposing Israel’s policy of expansionism and occupation, BDS is in fact a movement to “save Israel from […]
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People Are Talking About BDS
by Emily W. Schaeffer on February 25, 2010 The following post first appeared on the new website Israel: The Only Democracy in the Middle East? People are talking about Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). People should be talking about BDS. If you”re not talking about BDS in the context of Israel/Palestine, you should be thinking […]
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Call for Action: Join the National Day Against Agrexco on March 6th 2010!
Posted by BNC Palestine on Sat, 02/27/2010 – 00:36 (French call attached in PDF) The BDS National Committee (BNC) strongly endorses the National Day Against Agrexco/Carmel on March 6th 2010, launched by the large French Anti-Agrexco Coalition and salutes the Coalition for its principled position and deeply appreciated solidarity.[1] Carmel Agrexco (in short, Agrexco) is […]
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An Afternoon at the (Israel) Ballet
From a protest for the boycott of the Israel Ballet. For more info see www.adalahny.org
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Palestinian Authority steps up boycott of goods made in Israeli settlements in West Bank
The Palestinian Authority is intensifying its bid to boycott goods made in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, even as the EU Thursday said such products could not qualify as duty free imports. The effort takes a different approach to the struggle against Israeli occupation. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, throws a package into a […]
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