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Boycott Settlement Goods Protest
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Join the first global BDS Marathon! – October 16/17 2009
What”s the BDS Marathon? – Two days of non-stop BDS activities around the globe! Save your time slot now! Participation is simple: 1) Organize an event activity during Friday and Saturday 16/17 October 2009 and let us know at: freemohammad [at] stopthewall.org 2) Stop the Wall will publish a time table with all planned activities. […]
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Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel: An Answer to Uri Avnery
Michael Warschawski [Alternative Information Center] 8 October 2009 – The call for BDS–Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions–has finally reached Israeli public opinion. The decision of Norway to divest from Israeli corporations involved in settlement building made the difference, and provided the first big success to that important campaign. After having ignored the BDS campaign for several years, […]
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Volvo providing armored buses for Israeli settlements
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 7 October 2009 Following reports published by The Electronic Intifada on the use of Volvo equipment in the demolition of Palestinian houses in 2007, the Volvo Group stated that it did not condone the use of its equipment for such purposes. Claiming to have no control over the use of […]
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Answering critics of the boycott movement
Sami Hermez, The Electronic Intifada, 1 October 2009 Over the last three years, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel has been gaining stride. Individuals around the world have been joining this call, from organizing actions in supermarkets in France and Great Britain protesting Israeli products made in settlements, to filmmakers withdrawing movies […]
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Bilbao Cooperation Council Adopts BDS
Bilbao, September 18, 2009 – The Municipal Council for Cooperation of Bilbao has joined the Campaign BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) on the State of Israel, which undertakes not to cooperate with the policy of apartheid in Palestine and the illegal occupation in their territories. This decision was taken at the regular plenary session held […]
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Boycott KKL
Paris, 26 septembre 2009. ACTION contre la présence de l’organisation KKL, une organisation israélienne, au salon “Planí¨te mode d’emploi”. Une action dans le cadre de la campagne BDS (Boycott, Désinvestissement, Sanctions).
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Boycotts Go Back to School!
This fall, as college students return to campus, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, in partnership with Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine, is organizing a five-city boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) tour across the country. Ever since the dynamic student organizers at Hampshire got their university to divest from corporations supporting […]
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Egypt media group agrees on massive Israel boycott
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent The London-based Arabic-language daily A Sharq al Awsat reported Monday that the board of directors of the powerful Egyptian media group Al-Ahram had decided to boycott Israel and Israelis of all positions. The Al-Ahram group is considered the most powerful media body in Egypt. Al-Ahram publishes newspapers considered to be […]
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CODEPINK Women for Peace & the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
The Israeli assault on Gaza at the end of December 2008 and into January 2009 was a tipping point for many with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For CODEPINK it no longer felt possible to sit on the sidelines and do nothing while white phosphorous bombs rained down on the people of Gaza – bombs […]
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