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Village of Bil’in asks Norway to divest from Leviev’s Africa-Israel
April 21, 2009 The Council on Ethics Norwegian Government Pension Fund Government of Norway Dear Members of the Council on Ethics, It is with great dismay that we learned that Norway, a strong supporter of human rights and peace in the Middle East, has invested its citizens” pensions in a company, Lev Leviev”s Africa-Israel, that […]
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Scottish Trade Union Congress Joins BDS Campaign!!!
Posted by RORCoalition on Thu, 04/23/2009 – 11:45 Scotland today joined Ireland and South Africa when the Scottish Trade Union Congress, representing every Scottish trade union, voted overwhelmingly to commit to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is the third example of a national trade union federation committing to BDS and is a clear […]
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Canadian musician Leonard Cohen urged to cancel Israel concert
Open letter, British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, 22 April 2009 The following is an open letter from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine to Canadian musician Leonard Cohen: Dear Leonard Cohen: Your songs have been part of the soundtrack of our lives — like breathing, some of them. But we can’t […]
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Store facing bid to boycott Israeli products
JOSH WINGROVE Globe and Mail Update April 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM EDT One of Canada’s iconic retailers is facing a politically charged debate at its annual general meeting, where it expects a motion to boycott Israeli products will be introduced. Mountain Equipment Co-op, a Canadian outdoor clothing and gear store, allows any member to […]
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French Court to Hear Israeli Tram Case
By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS PARIS — Palestinian lobby groups that contest Israel’s authority over East Jerusalem have found they might be helped via an unexpected route: a French court. The court decided to take up the case against French companies contracted by Israel to build a tram line that runs deep into East Jerusalem from West […]
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Boycott campaign urges Iran to cut ties with settlement-linked companies
Date: 21 / 04 / 2009 Time: 14:07 Bethlehem – Ma”an – Palestinian civil society groups called on Tehran to cut ties with two French companies profiting from work in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took center stage as a critic of Israel at […]
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BDS: Thinking Outside the PLO Box
‘The tragedy of Gaza was not enough to wake the PLO up from its slumber.’ By Samah Sabawi Three months ago, the world stood still for one rare moment of absolute clarity as it grasped the implication of Israel’s imprisonment of a civilian population and its use of aid and medicine as a political bargaining […]
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A slander on our movement
Lichi D’Amelio responds to the charge, sadly made in a left-wing newspaper, that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic. April 8, 2009 “PART OF the deepening pattern of Jew-baiting and anti-Semitism in the middle-class left worldwide.” You might think that such an ugly and provocative statement had to come from […]
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URGENT: Protest ROM decision to display stolen antiquities
The Dead Sea scrolls, confiscated from East Jerusalem during Israel’s 1967 military invasion and occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, are coming to Toronto. The move is part of Israel consul general Amir Gissin’s official “Brand Israel” campaign that attempts to ‘rebrand’ apartheid Israel beyond its systematic repression of the Palestinian people. Since 1967, hundreds […]
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