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‘Santana canceled concert because of anti-Israel pressure’
Sources in Israeli production team claim guitarist received messages that ‘it’s better’ not to perform in Israel Raz Shechnik Guitarist Carlos Santana reportedly received messages that “it’s better” that he not perform in Israel, according to what a senior official in the Israeli music production market involved in producing Santana’s show told Yedioth Ahronoth on […]
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BRICUP tells Elton John ‘Don’t Play Israel’
BRICUP has sent an open letter to Elton John asking him to cancel his planned concert in Israel in June. We’ve said to him: “Okay, you turn up in Ramat Gan, and it gets to that “Candle in the Wind” moment, and thousands of lighters flicker – but there won”t be any Palestinians from the […]
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Join the Second Global BDS Day of Action 30 March 2010
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 their organizations around the […]
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Jordan’s anti-normalization body calls for annulling peace treaty with Israel
A top anti-normalization Jordanian committee, grouping opposition parties and professional associations, called on the Jordanian government on Sunday to scrap the peace treaty with Israel, Xinhua reported. “We urge the Jordanian government and other Arab states that signed peace treaties with the Zionist enemy (Israel) to abolish these treaties as they are considered a declaration […]
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COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini Addresses Gaza Reportback: Isolate Apartheid Israel!
January 28, 2010 (Lenasia, South Africa) – Soweto yesterday, Gaza today. . . The forces of apartheid demonstrate limitless capacity for barbarism! Almost a year ago, Gaza was run down by the occupying forces of Israel in a barbaric show of might and in pursuit of their colonial expansionist ambitions. Schools, clinics, UN buildings, social […]
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Settlement goods – House of Commons debate, 27 January 2010
A debate in the House of Commons on EU-Israel trade on 27 January 2010 contains a detailed analysis by Phyllis Starkey of how EU-Israel regulations on trade in settlement goods are evaded, and a government response. The account below has been marginally edited to take out page breaks, interruptions and the like – see the […]
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A British MP Makes a Case Against AHAVA
Excerpt from speech by Dr. Phillis Starkey, Minister of Parliament, made on 1/27/10 regarding labeling of Israeli settlement products. This section focuses on AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories. Full transcript of the day”s debates in Parliament available here. The text below comes from a marginally edited version posted by the U.K. site Jews for Justice in […]
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Growing Labor Support for Palestine Faces Stiff Opposition in the U.S.
Paul Abowd | January 22, 2010 Union members who want to organize U.S. labor support for war-torn Palestine often compare their cause to the battle against apartheid in the 1980s. They point to striking similarities between Israel”s occupation of Palestine and the former South African system: In Israel, Arab citizens face legalized segregation in housing […]
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Jerusalem’s first light rail is test case in Palestinian boycott campaign
By Karin Laub (CP) – 1 day ago JERUSALEM – Jerusalem’s first light rail starts test runs this spring, with its sleek silver cars gliding across the city and promising to relieve the perpetual congestion. But Palestinians see no reason to celebrate. They hope to derail the $1 billion tram because they fear it will […]
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BDS and The Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange (BIRAX)
On 17 January 2010, UK Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis announced that the British government would be contributing an additional £29,000 (174,000 NIS) to the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange partnership scheme. Launched by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and then Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on 20 July 2008 at a meeting of the Knesset, […]
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