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Palestinian boycott calls won’t hinder Jerusalem light rail construction
By ABE SELIG Despite recent calls by Palestinian Authority officials to boycott two French companies working on Jerusalem’s much-anticipated light rail system, the local spokesman for one of those companies – Alstom – told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the light rail work was moving ahead as scheduled, and that political considerations would not […]
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Veolia and Alstom continue to abet Israel’s rights violations
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 24 November 2009 Despite mounting pressure to withdraw from the light rail project in Jerusalem designed to serve the needs of Israel’s illegal settlements, the French transportation giant Veolia is set to be highly involved in the project for the next five years. The company needs to support its new […]
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Motorola Droid Wins Most Ironic: New Droid commercial involves bombing farms, fishing boats
Well, the [tragic] irony has hit the fan. In a surreal move reminiscent of the Israeli cell phone company Cellcom’s ad depicting the apartheid wall, the latest commercial for Motorola’s new ‘Droid’ phone literally depicts a squadron of Stealth bombers delivering Droids like bombs onto unsuspecting farmers, motorists, and fishing boats. It’s been a few […]
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Yes! San Francisco Jewish Federation does drive more into arms of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
As we wrote earlier, the board of San Francisco”s Jewish Federation was set to vote on an odious McCarthyite resolution presented by a splinter group of right-wing Federation critics: The S.F. Jewish Federation will not support events or organizations that demonize or defame Israel. Nor will it support organizations that partner in their events with […]
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Palestinian students cross barriers to discuss boycott
Bianca Zammit, The Electronic Intifada, 23 November 2009 The right of Palestinian students to an education was the main theme of a video conference between students from the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank on 12 November 2009, sponsored by the al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Society and Bethlehem University. The conference was […]
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Ali Abunimah: Campus BDS Conference keynote speaker
Ali Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Campus BDS Conference at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
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French Union CNT Joins BDS Campaign
French Union CNT Joins BDS Campaign Confederation Nationale du Travail joins BDS campaign – press release November 2009 – Through the intermediary of its international Secretary, the National Work Confederation (Confederation Nationale du Travail or CNT), a French anti-capitalist internationalist union involved in social class struggles, has joined the campaign labeled “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
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Fear of a BDS planet
It’s getting hard to keep track of Israeli press mentions of the boycott, divestment & sanctions [BDS] movement against Israel. Their frequency & tenor bespeaks a growing alarm at the BDS threat, particularly among establishment journos. To whit: Sever Plocker, Chief Economics Editor and Commentator for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s largest daily, in an article noting […]
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The New York Mets and the business of terrorism
Aaron Levitt, The Electronic Intifada, 20 November 2009 When I first learned that the New York Mets were hosting a fundraiser for the nonprofit Hebron Fund at Citi Field in support of the Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, I honestly assumed it was a joke, albeit a poor one. When […]
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Coalition Details Hebron Fund’s Connections to Extremism Ahead of Citi Field Fundraiser
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, November 20, 2009 – One day before the Hebron Fund’s controversial fundraising dinner at the New York Mets’ Citi Field, a coalition of civil rights and peace organizations released new details about extremist statements by individuals associated with the Hebron Fund, and about its fundraising for illegal purposes. The […]
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