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Toronto film festival hit by cultural boycott over Tel Aviv strand
Ken Loach, David Byrne and Jane Fonda among those condemning festival directors’ choice of Tel Aviv for inaugural City-to-City Spotlight event * Ben Walters * guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 September 2009 15.40 BST The Toronto international film festival (TIFF) is under fire for selecting Tel Aviv as the subject of its inaugural City-to-City Spotlight strand. Ken […]
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Economic retaliationӬ against Tel Aviv
This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel”s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal proceedings, so there are calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel tocomply with international law by Willy Jackson, Le Monde diplomatique. The boycott, divestment and sanctions […]
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Don’t play with apartheid and occupation; Israeli Davis Cup team is not welcomed in Murcia.
Press release by the Solidarity Network against the occupation of Palestine: Don”t play with apartheid and occupation; Israeli Davis Cup team is not welcomed in Murcia. On September 18th, 19th and 20th Israel will play in Murcia against Spain in the semi-finals of the Davis Cup. Antonio García Alarcón, President of the regional tennis Federation […]
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Faithful warned against buying “occupation dates” this Ramadan
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 2 September 2009 Israel’s largest produce exporter, Agrexco, is once again under fire because of its dates produced in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. This year, the company’s dates arrived in time for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which faithful Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset […]
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Norway fund expels Israel firm for barrier work
OSLO, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Norway’s $400 billion-plus wealth fund has excluded Israeli company Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA) for supplying surveillance equipment for the separation barrier in the West Bank, the government said on Thursday. “We do not wish to fund companies that so directly contribute to violations of international humanitarian law,” Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen […]
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Briefing: The investment of the Norwegian Pension Fund in Elbit Systems: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law violations in Palestine
This briefing was created for the Norwegian Pension Fund to demand divestment from Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems is one of the largest Israel “security” and “defence” companies. It is key in manufacturing a variety of weapons used against both the Palestinian and Lebanese people as well as providing technology used to secure the Wall and […]
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Toronto film festival protested for Tel Aviv spotlight
Press Release, PACBI, 31 August 2009 The following press release was issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel on 27 August 2009: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is gravely concerned that the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2009 has decided to spotlight […]
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Cosmetics Company Uses Kristin Davis and Then Kicks Her Out
By Brian Moylan, 2:18 PM on Thu Sep 3 2009 Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, hired Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis to help their image. Because she worked with the disputed company, she got the boot from human rights group Oxfam International. Now Ahava is giving her the heave-ho too! In August, Page Six reported […]
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Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
By Cecilie Surasky, AlterNet. Posted September 1, 2009. An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law. Few global-justice campaigns are more polarizing, even explosive, than the effort to use international boycotts, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to end its […]
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A modest proposal
By Rachel Giora Like the president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Prof. Rivka Carmi, I too believe the demand that Dr. Neve Gordon resign as head of the university’s Department of Politics and Government is a legitimate and even modest demand, given the financial damage the university will sustain if he fails to do […]
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