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Macy Gray publicly contemplating the BDS call – contact her on Facebook!
Macy Gray published this on her official Facebook page: “I’m booked for 2 shows in TelAviv. I’m getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians. What the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians is disgusting, but I wana go. I gotta lotta fans there I dont want to […]
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ASU students protest study abroad in Israel program
The following article was written by Arizona State University student Oday Shahin, and published in the State Press, ASU’s student newspaper. Study abroad program sends wrong message By Oday Shahin October 10, 2010 at 5:33 pm ASU”s Study Abroad Office announced an Israel study abroad program in conjunction with Ben-Gurion University last month. However, a partnership […]
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PACBI: The Challenge for 2011: Start implementing the academic boycott of Israel
http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1438 If 2010 witnessed an exceptional growth of the global BDS movement, especially in the cultural and consumer products fields, one of the main challenges facing the movement in 2011 will be to start putting into effect concrete boycott measures against Israeli universities and to further spread the artists” boycott of Israel. With world renowned […]
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Stuttgart Declaration: Closing Document of Palestine Solidarity Conference
Stuttgart Declaration Closing Document of the Palestine solidarity conference “Separated in the past – together in the future”. Stuttgart, 26-28 November 2010 Equality – or nothing (Edward W. Said) From 26-28 November 2010, over 200 participants came together for a “Palestine Solidarity Conference”. The theme of this three-day conference, with the title Separated in the […]
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OECD chief warns: Jerusalem conference could be canceled
World economic body chief criticizes tourism minister for claiming that holding a conference in Jerusalem demonstrates its support for Israel’s sovereignty there. By Barak Ravid and Irit Rosenblum Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), sent a harsh letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that due to comments made […]
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Towards accountability: John Dugard interviewed
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 5 October 2010 Last month, Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, chaired a meeting on universal Jurisdiction in the Hague. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviewed Dugard about means of bringing Israel to account for its human rights violations, particularly […]
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Propaganda and Israel/Palestine: The War is On
Poor CAMERA…so victimized, so lonely. Tell the President and Provost of Boston University you are alarmed that they are welcoming a group of apologists for Israeli war crimes!
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French BDS Activists Request Your Help!
Monday, 27 September 2010 12:21 CAPJPO-EuroPalestine The repression against BDS activists in France is reaching a new height with the prosecution of a French MP, Alima Boumediene-Thiery (member of the French Senate) who participated in a BDS action in the Paris region one year ago and who is a supporter of the BDS campaign. Her […]
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Architects against Israeli occupation
With the settlement freeze over, international architects must take action to end illegal construction in the West Bank o Abe Hayeem o guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 October 2010 10.01 BST In deciding to back the boycott of Ariel theatre in the West Bank, Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect of Guggenheim fame, joins a growing body of […]
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Is boycotting Israel anti-Semitic?
Sherry Wolf, a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, responds to claims from supporters of Zionism that criticism of Israel–and in particular, the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against it–is “anti-Semitic.” October 7, 2010 ISRAEL’S SUPPORTERS wield the accusation that Palestine solidarity activists who support a boycott of Israel are guilty of anti-Semitism. […]
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