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Elton John: Don’t Entertain Apartheid AGAIN!
PACBI, Occupied Ramallah, 13 February 2010 Dear Elton John, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was genuinely troubled to learn that that you are scheduled to perform in Israel in June, in violation of the widely-endorsed Palestinian Guidelines for the International Cultural Boycott of Israel [1]. We call upon […]
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US Store discontinues Ahava dead sea products after boycott call
Friday February 12, 2010 04:42 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Report post The “Stolen Beauty” campaign has declared a small victory, after Costco stores agreed to stop carrying Dead Sea Salt from the Ahava corporation. AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories is an Israeli cosmetics company whose manufacturing plant is in an illegal settlement on Palestinian […]
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Protestors hit Beirut Starbucks
Customers flee as demonstrators express displeasure with coffee chain’s pro-Israel CEO Associated Press Protesters from a leftist group shouted anti-Israel slogans outside of a Starbucks coffee shop Wednesday during a protest in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Demonstrators tried to block the entrance to the shop, thereby causing customers inside to flee. The protesters said they targeted […]
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Have a Heart: Boycott AHAVA
This Valentine”s Day, have a heart and join our Stolen Beauty campaign to boycott Ahava cosmetics by contacting Ricky”s NYC, a family-owned chain store here in New York City, to tell them, “Stop carrying AHAVA cosmetics! AHAVA means love in Hebrew, but there is nothing loving about the company”s practices.” Even though you may not […]
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BOYCOTT! supports Bergen University’s decision to allow an open debate on the possibility of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions
A letter to Professor Sigmund Grí¸nmo, rector of Bergen University January 31, 2010 Dear Professor Grí¸nmo, We are a group of Palestinians and Jews, citizens and residents of Israel, who are struggling to end the Israeli occupation and oppression of the Palestinians. We are writing to you in order to support your courageous decision to […]
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Fueling Israeli Apartheid: Corporate Profits and Accountability
The Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid presents Fueling Israeli Apartheid: Corporate Profits and Accountability a conversation with Dalit Baum of WhoProfits.org Tuesday, February 16 “¢ 7pm El Centro Del Pueblo Auditorium 474 Valencia at 16th St., San Francisco Donations requested at the door Israeli and international corporations are directly involved in apartheid and […]
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Boycott “Ariel” and the Rest! All Israeli Academic Institutions are Complicit in Occupation and Apartheid
In response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to upgrade the status of the so-called Ariel University Center of Samaria (AUCS) to a full university, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) reiterates its call for a boycott of AUCS and all other Israeli academic institutions due to […]
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Supporting SAIA, Students Against Israeli Apartheid at Carleton University
February 7th, 2010 Dear Friends at SAIA, Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Carleton, We are a group of Palestinians and Jews, citizens and residents of Israel, who are struggling to end Israeli apartheid and the decades-long occupation and oppression of the Palestinians. We are writing to express our unequivocal support of SAIA’s admirable divestment campaign […]
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British academics urge Elton John to cancel Israel concert
A group of British academics have called on singer Elton John to cancel his scheduled performance in Israel this June. “Political or not political, when you stand up on that stage in Tel Aviv, you line yourself up with a racist state,” the British Committee for Universities of Palestine wrote in an open letter to […]
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In favor of academic boycott
Recognition of Ariel college as a university a purely political move Ariel Rubinstein About two years ago, Yigal Cohen-Orgad, chancellor of the college in Ariel, asked me to come and visit. Cohen-Orgad feels, correctly, that we have similar views – for example, against the trend of private colleges. Colleagues spoke in praise of Cohen-Orgad”s performance […]
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