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Portuguese activists fight state water company deal with Israel’s Mekorot
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 28 December 2009 In October, EPAL, Portugal’s state water company, announced a deal with Mekorot, Israel’s state water company. An intern who responded to the news by informing colleagues of Mekorot’s role in Israel’s discriminatory water policies and assistance in its violation of international law was immediately sacked. News of […]
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Open Letter to Metallica
AN OPEN LETTER TO METALLICA Halls of Justice Painted Green Money Talking Power Wolves Beset Your Door Hear Them Stalking Soon You’ll Please Their Appetite They Devour Hammer of Justice Crushes You Overpower… (“…And Justice for All”, Metallica) Dear Metallica, Now that the opportunity to truly promote justice for all is in your hands – […]
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Palestine/Israel: A Single State, with Liberty and Justice for All, Regardless of Religion
by Susan Abulhawa with Ramzy Baroud / December 26th, 2009 Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been a multi-religious and multi-cultural country. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. Other nations fought wars and waged epic struggles to […]
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‘Israel resembles a failed state’
By Ali Abunimah One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still. Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones – more than 1,400 people, almost 400 of them children – there has been little healing and virtually no […]
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BDS campaigns for boycott of Israeli goods in US
US campaigners are trying to persuade and urge investors, vendors, merchants and consumers to boycott Israeli products and services. Members of the national Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement say since Israel’s three-week long war on Gaza at the turn of the year, more Americans are skeptical about purchasing Israeli products. The BDS, launching a […]
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Veolia, Alstom in legal muddle
Firms face trial over west bank project * By Abbas Al Lawati, Staff Reporter * Published: December 25, 2009 * Gulf News Dubai: Two French transport giants Veolia and Alstom could face trial in France over their involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail project that aims to link the eastern and western parts of Occupied […]
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Why it’s right to boycott Israel
Louise O’Shea The horrific war carried out by Israel against the people of Gaza last January marked a turning point in world opinion with regard to the Zionist state. The devastation led even some of its apologists to question the motives and nature of the Israeli state, and strengthened the resolve of many sympathisers with […]
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Boycott & Divestment Efforts Proliferate on Campus: The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
The U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) is an academic boycott campaign started in 2009 by 13 professors in California. USACBI describes itself as responding to the call of the international Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and is mimicking that group’s efforts to support […]
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An Outrageous and Pathetic Weapon Against BDS: Stop Instrumentalizing Anti-Semitism!
Every time the State of Israel is confronted with substantial international criticism for its political behavior and its violations of basic international standards, it counter-attacks by using the infamous tool of accusations of anti-Semitism. One remembers the campaign on anti-Semitism launched by Ariel Sharon and his friends throughout the world, Jews and non-Jews, after the […]
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Press Release: on USACBI’s One Year Anniversary
December 23, 2009 Contacts: Jess Ghannam, jess.ghannam[at]ucsf.edu, Sherna Berger Gluck, shernagluck[at]gmail.com; David Lloyd, colles2012[at]sbcglobal.net For Immediate Release December 27, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel”s 22-day assault on the captive population of Gaza, which killed 1400 people, one third of them children, and injured more than 5300. During […]
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