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Church of England Divested from Caterpillar
URGENT PSC PRESS – For Immediate Release VICTORY – Church of England Divested from Caterpillar Over this weekend, 7th and 8th February, the Church of England clarified their position on their investments in companies profiting from the illegally occupied Palestinian territories and now wish to make clear that late last year they removed over £2.2 […]
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STATEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL’S WAR ON PALESTINE
February 1, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF AMERICAN JEWS ISSUES American Jews for a Just Peace, a new alliance of progressive and predominantly Jewish activists working in the United States working to ensure equal rights, safety, and dignity for all the people of historic Palestine, today issued the following statement: Israel’s recent […]
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Boycotting Israeli Goods…
By Ayesha Niser I challenge you to help free Palestine! In order to help with the Boycott I’ve chosen one company to focus our energy on. That company is Nestle. Nestle is heavily invested in Israel and has “received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded […]
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Support for Israel must stop
Daily Sundial David Klein / Professor of Mathematics, CSUN Published: Friday, February 6, 2009 Updated: Friday, February 6, 2009 When an impoverished Palestinian boy confronts an Israeli tank in front of his home, how do you explain to American taxpayers that the tank is David and the boy is Goliath? Apologists for Israel”s devastating attack […]
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No Dancing on Gaza’s Graves – Boycott and Protest Batsheva Dance Company
WRITTEN BY Michelle J. Kinnucan An Israeli apartheid dance troupe started its North America tour in Houston on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Between then and March 1, 2009 it will go to fourteen more American and Canadian cities. That troupe, the Batsheva Dance Company, is currently scheduled to perform in Purchase, NY on January 30-31 […]
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NEW NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF AMERICAN JEWS ISSUES
February 1, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STATEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL’S WAR ON PALESTINE American Jews for a Just Peace, a new alliance of progressive and predominantly Jewish activists working in the United States working to ensure equal rights, safety, and dignity for all the people of historic Palestine, today issued the following statement: Israel’s recent War […]
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Pro-Palestinian groups call boycott on Israel
BELEM, Brazil (AFP) – Pro-Palestinian groups meeting at the World Social Forum that ended Sunday launched a call for a worldwide boycott of Israel and a day of action on March 30. “This is not intended to be an anti-Semitic action. It’s a call against the apartheid that Israel is practising,” said one of the […]
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Irish Call for Justice for Palestine
Attached the full-page statement – “Irish Call for Justice for Palestine” – which appeared in today’s Irish Times (31st January) as p.5, replete with ca. 300 signatures. The demands include a call for a boycott of Israeli goods and services. The signatories include 5 MEPs (from Proinsias de Rossa to Marian Harkin), many TDs and […]
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Veolia Dealt Major Blow in BDS campaign
Diakonia Press Statement Stockholm, 20 January 2009 Today the Stockholm community council in Sweden announced that the French company Veolia who has been the current operator at the Subway’s in Stockholm County for 10 years lost the contract to the MTR-cooperation. The contracts for the coming 8 years is worth 3,5 Billion EURO and has […]
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US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Mission Statement: Responding to the CALL of Palestinian civil society to join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel, we are a US campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel): “In light of Israel’s persistent […]
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