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More investors abandoning Lev Leviev and Africa-Israel
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 9 December 2009 Last month, the second-largest Dutch pension fund PFZW joined an already impressive group of investors that have divested from Africa-Israel. Africa-Israel is the target of an international boycott campaign by Palestine solidarity activists because of its involvement in the construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied […]
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Excuse me, Geek Squad? My Motorola phone seems to be supporting apartheid!
Not only is the international campaign for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to end Israeli occupation and apartheid growing, it’s also getting more creative! Our spoof of the new commercial for Motorola’s ‘Droid’ phone is making the internet rounds, as is this great video of US Campaign member group New York Campaign for the Boycott of […]
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Bill Fletcher, Jr. Addresses UN General Assembly on Israeli Apartheid
On November 30, 2009, in commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People addressed the UN General Assembly. Among the speakers who were invited to present was US Campaign Steering Committee member, trade union activist and anti-apartheid […]
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New Resources for Recruiting BDS Supporters
Below please find two new postcards you can download, print, and reproduce to hand out to people and help us recruit new endorsers of the boycott campaign. You can also find PDF versions of these files in the right-hand sidebar under “Boycott & Divestment Resources.” Download USACBI Postcard as PDF Download BDS Postcard as PDF
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The Interview Ha’aretz Doesn’t Want You To See
Rehaviya Berman conducted an interview with Ali Abunimah, for Ha”aretz, a few weeks ago. The Interview was never published. Berman decided to publish it on his blog [Hebrew] and I decided to translate it, for your reading pleasure: Exclusive: One On One with the Leader of the Electronic Intifada Rehaviya Berman Meet Ali Abunimah, the […]
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Israel supports cultural boycott
by Adam Horowitz on December 6, 2009 From Haaretz: The Gaza Strip”s first international documentary festival, which will end tomorrow, began nearly a month after the scheduled date because Israel”s blockade made it difficult for organizers to get the films that will be screened there. . . Palestinian director Riad Shahin, who is running the […]
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HRW: Detained BDS campaigner Mohammad Othman “˜is being punished for his peaceful advocacy’
From the Human Rights Watch statement “Israel: End Arbitrary Detention of Rights Activist”: Israeli authorities have detained Othman without charge for more than two months on what appear to be politically motivated grounds. On the basis of secret evidence that Othman and his lawyers were not allowed to see, a military court confirmed a military […]
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Will Harper criminalize criticism of Israel?
6 December 2009 | rabble.ca by Murray Dobbin Ever since the Israeli invasion of the Gaza strip last December the global debate surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has intensified with both sides upping the ante, and the stakes of the framing battle increasing almost daily. One of the most recent – but almost totally unreported – […]
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8 filmmakers refuse to participate in Paris Cinema program
Palestinian and Israeli FIlmmakers boycott Forum des Images in Paris. * Avi Moghrabi, Anne-Marie Jacir, Eyal Sivan, Shai Karmeli Pollack, Hany Abu Assad, Maryse Gargour, Najwa Barakat, and Tamar Berger Tel-Aviv sous les feux… de la rampe BDS France appelle au boycott du festival Du 4 novembre au 6 décembre, Paris célí¨bre le centenaire de […]
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