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Scottish BDS Activists Face Trumped up Charges
Mick Napier [Sumoud] 17 May 2009 – Five BDS Campaign activists face charges following their interruption of a performance during the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival by an Israeli musical ensemble. Far from being driven by malice towards Jews or Israelis, the rising world-wide campaign of BDS is driven by anger at the crimes of the […]
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Who Profits Newsletter – Focus on Norwegian Pension Fund Investments
Who Profits from the Occupation May Newsletter: International Investment in the Occupation A Case Study: The Norwegian Government’s Pension Fund The economic interests in the Israeli occupation of Palestine are not exclusive to Israeli corporations. In a global economy, international corporations and investors are heavily involved in the manifold economy of the occupation. In our […]
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Jewish Chronicle on PSC meeting with Tescos
Tesco denies labels shift but “will meet” Palestine group Tesco executives have agreed to meet members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to discuss labelling on produce from West Bank settlements, despite insisting that there will be no change in their policy. The long-challenged voluntary labelling guidelines, whereby supermarkets are encouraged by the government to state […]
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University occupations over Gaza
Mona Baker At the end of December 2008 a wave of protest occupations swept across UK university campuses in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The “occupation movement” started on 13 January 2009, when students at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London occupied the Brunei Gallery and issued a list of […]
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Arabs renew calls for Israel boycott
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– The 82nd conference for the Arab liaison officers of economic boycott of Israel opened in Damascus on Tuesday with the participation of 14 Arab countries amidst renewed calls for activating those offices. The general commissioner of the main office for the boycott of Israel, Mohammed Al-Tayeb, said in a press statement that holding […]
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Boycott of Israeli goods in Hebron to ensure that “occupation does not return a profit”
Hebron / PNN – The southern West Bank city of Hebron and its entire governorate is being targeted with the ferocity currently directed at East Jerusalem. A few hundred ultra-extremist settlers are rapidly overtaking more Palestinian land, a process that has been slowly underway for years. Along with southern Nablus, the Hebron area houses some […]
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Stop Veolia running the London Cycle Hire Scheme
Palestine campaigners call on London Mayor to say “Peddle Off to Veolia,” for supporting the Israeli occupation The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has called on the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TFL) to exclude the French transport company Veolia from bidding for the contact to run London”s proposed free cycle hire […]
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Strasbourg Boycott
Dear friends, chers amis, liebe Freunde, Here you find some pictures from our yesterday’s bicycle-rally through Strasbourg, “in the rain” “Boycott Israel”. Escaping from rain we had become subject of a turmoil with security guards of the “LES HALLES” commercial center, who wouldn’t – “par order of the center’s direction” – let us in, because […]
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Open Letter to the Labor Research Association: Don’t Honor Israeli Apartheid
As longtime labor and anti-apartheid activists, we strongly disagree with the decision to honor Stuart Appelbaum at tonight”s annual dinner of the Labor Research Association in New York City. The LRA”s dinner program praises Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, for building “relationships with community organizations in an effort to expand […]
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