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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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Apartheid is the Root of Israel’s Aggressions
Submitted by Glen Ford on Tue, 09/22/2009 – 12:17 Israel reacted with typical feigned outrage at the United Nations report on war crimes and human rights violations committed by its forces in Gaza, last winter. The Jewish state’s serial violations of international law are rooted in the barbarism of its governing principle, apartheid, which leads […]
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The cowardice, the vanity, the sin of boycotting Israel
By Bradley Burston Live in this tainted Holy Land long enough, and you come to learn that there are two kinds of political activists, much as there are two kinds of artists. The first kind, the kind who changes the world, points to something that has yet to have been seen, something that seriously needs […]
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Spain expels Israeli scientists from solar energy competition
September 25, 2009, (Pal Telegraph)- Spain has expelled a group of Israeli scientists from a state-funded solar energy competition because they are based in occupied areas of the West Bank, it said today. The decision to expel the team from the Ariel University Centre of Samaria from Solar Decathlon Europe, an international competition involving 20 […]
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Large french industrial Trade Union, Solidaires Industrie, joins the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign.
As it has been published today, Solidaries Industrie, a large french industrial trade union, has joined the BDS campaign. It happens a few days after the British trade union confederation also is calling for Boycott. http://www.solidaires-industrie.org/Boycott-Israel L”Union syndicale Solidaires Industrie rejoint la campagne nationale et internationale de Boycott, Désinvestissement, Sanction (campagne BDS) contre Israí«l lancée […]
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Ahava Occupied for a Second Time in Support with Palestine: global action in Washington, London and Amsterdam
Washington, London and Amsterdam Washington, D.C. CODEPINK Women for Peace September 19 protest action against Ahava VIDEO FROM September 19 AHAVA action in D.C. London, England Ahava Occupied for a Second Time in Support with Palestine http://jfjfp.com/?p=5546 Excerpt: At 11 a.m. on the 19th September two members of the International Solidarity Movement entered Ahava in […]
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Spain boycotts Ariel college for being on occupied territory
Spanish government, sponsor of Solar Decathalon, disqualifies architecture department of Ariel University Center of Samaria from finals. ‘10,000 students hurt by fight that is against international law,’ claims college Yaheli Moran Zelikovich. Ynet news. The Spanish Housing Ministry disqualified Ariel University Center of Samaria from competing in the finals of the international competition between university […]
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Announcing the 2009 Campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College
National Campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Conference endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel What & Where: This fall from November 20th through the 22nd, students, faculty, and staff from around the country who are engaged in Palestine solidarity activism will converge for a conference on campus Boycott, Divestment, and […]
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Hollywood fights back against anti-Israeli sentiment
Ad denounces boycott demands made at Toronto International Film Festival. By TINA DAUNT September 19, 2009 Left, right or center, there’s two things nearly everybody in Hollywood agrees on: There’s no disease that can’t be cured by raising enough money and the state of Israel deserves unabashed support. These days, sympathy for Israel puts the […]
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