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A glimmer of hope
Ziyaad Lunat and Max Ajl, The Electronic Intifada, 12 November 2009 The Obama Administration proved twice recently that it intends to continue to consider Israel above the law. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton caused consternation amongst the US’s allies in the Palestinian Authority and across the region by declaring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention […]
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British Jews use “˜buycott’ to combat Palestinian boycott threat
November 13, 2009 (JTA) — British Jews organized a “buycott” of Israeli products to combat a Palestinian boycott campaign against two major supermarket chains. The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Fair Play Campaign Group urged shoppers to buy as many Israeli products as possible this week in response to the Palestine Solidarity […]
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Jerusalem’s Train to Nowhere
The construction project that is just another dead end for Israelis and Palestinians. BY RACHEL SHABI | NOVEMBER 12, 2009 Query Jerusalem residents about their new railway and the most common response is: Don’t ask. Then locals will proceed to tell you all about it anyway: a long litany of complaints over the snarled-up roads, […]
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Palestinian Civil Society Calls on Arab States to Boycott Veolia and Alstom
Jerusalem Press Conference: Time: Monday, 16 November 2009, 10:00 am Place: Mount Scopus Hotel in Jerusalem The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)* invites you to a press conference calling for on all Arab governments to exclude the French companies, Veolia and Alstom, from all public contracts, due to their complicity in the […]
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New Orleans Film Festival Joins the Cultural Boycott of Israel
New Orleans Palestine solidarity activists founded one film festival in New Orleans, called PATOIS (patoisfilmfest.org). Our festival considers ourselves part of the International BDS movement, and our festival observes the international boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. Now we have convinced another local film festival, the New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, to also observe the […]
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The French Workers’ Union CNT Joins BDS Campaign
franí§ais ci-dessous 01/11/2009 – Through the intermediary of its international Secretary, the National Work Confederation (Confédération Nationale du Travail or CNT), a French anti-capitalist internationalist union involved in social class struggles, has joined the campaign labelled “Boycott, Disinvestmant and Sanction against the State of Israel”, an international campaign launched by more than 170 grassroot Palestinian […]
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Egyptian Journalists Syndicate investigates ‘normalizers’ with Israel
The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate’s investigation committee decided, at its meeting on Tuesday, to refer Dr. Hala Mustafa, the editor of the Democracy magazine (part of the Al Ahram institution), and Siraj Hussain, the deputy editor of October magazine, to the syndicate’s disciplinary body. The reason the committee stated, is that these two journalists “violated the […]
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Supporting the Cultural Boycott from Within
The Israeli group, BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within, have circulated a call to action, asking Israeli citizens to contact officials at the University of Trondheim, and express their support for a decision in favor of an institutional boycott against Israeli universities. The letter sent by the group itself follows. 8/11/09 Boycott the […]
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Delusional Self-Defense, Delusional Congressional Vote
By Jimmy Leas and Noura Erakat The 344-36 House vote last week condemning the Goldstone Report, which encourages Israel and Hamas to conduct “credible” independent investigations of war crimes committed in Gaza, may help Israeli leaders avoid prosecution in the short-term. However, the House vote and the negative US votes at the UN will have […]
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BDS: Hitting Israel where it hurts – its economy.
Adbusters | 09 Nov 2009 The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was launched in July 2005 by the Palestinian BDS National Committee and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian organizations from the occupied Palestinian Territories, from Palestinian citizens of Israel and from the vast diaspora of Palestinian emigrants and refugees. The campaign calls upon […]
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