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Open letter to the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Please consider signing this letter below and sending your reply back to Michael or John by Sunday November 1st at the latest, and circulating of you can. Further to my message yesterday, I am copying below a letter to all members of Clare College Choir which has been drafted by the UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign […]
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Sweden: Israeli wine made in occupied territory
State alcohol retail monopoly labels Golan Heights wines as produced in ‘Syrian occupied territory,’ due to customer complaints. Winery CEO enraged, says: ‘We’re not selling politics’ Itamar Eichner Sweden’s state alcohol retail monopoly has recently decided to market wines produced in the Israel Golan Heights as made in “Syrian occupied territory.” The shelves carrying the […]
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SUSSEX STUDENTS VOTE TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL
Date 30/10/09 Sussex Students” Union first in UK to boycott Israeli goods FOLLOWING a landmark referendum, students at Sussex University have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision will become part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which calls upon Israel to respect international law and end the occupation of Palestine. The referendum […]
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Ma’an Development Center Launches Booklet on Palestinian BDS Campaign
The Ma’an Development Center has launched a report on the Palestinian BDS campaign under the title Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Lesson learned in effective solidarity CONTENTS WHY BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS? THE LESSONS OF BOYCOTT 1. Boycott takes time 1.2 The challenge of normalization 2. Boycott as a grassroots movement 3. Clear goals based on justice […]
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Montrealers throw Hallowe’en party at the Bay to launch boycott of Israeli Ahava Dead Sea products
Montreal, October 31 – On the scariest day of the year, members of Middle East solidarity groups Tadamon, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and the Québec BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Committee will be demanding that the Bay take its creepiest product, Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics, off its shelves. Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories (www.ahava.co.il) […]
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Israeli banks entrenched in settlement building
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 27 October 2009 Several Western pension funds and financial managers hold shares in two Israeli banks: Bank Hapoalim and Bank Leumi. Both banks operate in and offer loans to finance illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories. Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, was established in 1921 by […]
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Bahrain Politicians Spar Over Israel Boycott
October 25th, 2009 The Media Line Staff The Bahraini parliament is at loggerheads with the government because of a bill which proposes heavy prison sentences for people who conduct any kind of dealings with Israel. The bill, set to be discussed on Tuesday, bans “any form of cooperation with the Israeli entity,” and advises that […]
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Conference Declaration: United in Struggle against Israeli Colonialism, Occupation and Racism
United in Struggle against Israeli Colonialism, Occupation and Racism 24-25 October, 2009 Bethlehem, Palestine Seminar Declaration Towards the unity of all forces in struggle for boycott, divestment and sanctions for Palestine Between the 24th and the 25th of October, 2009, the Occupied Palestine and Golan Heights Advocacy Initiative (OPGAI), together with the Alternative Information Center […]
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Open Letter to the International Geographical Union: Enforcing Geographies of Justice
PACBI | 29 October 2009 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is deeply disturbed by the decision of the International Geographical Union (IGU) to hold its regional conference in Israel next July. We urge the IGU to relocate this conference to another venue in the region, and appeal to […]
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Norway university to vote next month on boycott of Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board votes in favor of the move at a meeting on the subject next month. Three days prior to the November 12 vote by […]
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