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Call Rod Stewart to cancel upcoming concert in Israel
Please take 30 seconds to ask Rod Stewart to cancel Israeli concert in support of Palestinian Boycott call La version franí§aise suit… Later this week, singer Rod Stewart is scheduled to perform a concert in Israel. Nevertheless, in 2005, Palestinian civil society called for cultural boycott of Israel until Israel respects its obligations under international […]
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Palestinians lodge criminal complaint against Israeli leaders in Belgian court
24 June 2010 In Brussels, 14 Gaza-born Palestinians – one of them a Belgian citizen – have filed a criminal complaint against 14 current and former Israeli leaders for allegedly committing war crimes and crimes against Humanity during the 2008/09 Gaza war. The list includes Defense Minister Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and […]
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Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid
Workers Stand Against Israeli Apartheid 48 min. 2010 Labor Video Project In a historic labor/community protest on June 20, 2010, more than five hundred people joined picket lines in the Port of Oakland SSA terminal to call on ILWU Local 10 and ILWU Local 34 members not to cross the picket lines and work the […]
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Swansea City Council resolve to exclude Veolia from future contracts
Breakthrough! On 17 June Swansea City Council passed a resolution to exclude Veolia from all future contracts. Swansea is the second largest city in Wales. This is highly significant. It is the first time that a council in UK has passed such a resolution. To our knowledge the only local authorities in Europe to pass […]
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Sabeel DC Boycotts Israeli-made Ahava Products in Sliver Spring, MD Protest
On Saturday, June 26, 2010, human rights activists staged a protest action in front of Ulta Cosmetics Salon, in Silver Spring, MD, just north of Washington. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.952741&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Sabeel DC Boycotts Israeli-made Ahava Products …, posted with vodpod
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Petition: A World United for the Freedom of Humanity…Freedom of Palestine
By Mohamed Khodr “¢ Jun 23rd, 2010 at 19:00 [Author’s Note: I urge all worldwide citizens who read this petition to please consider signing it to provide a voice for the voiceless Palestinians and to disseminate it as widely as possible urging others to do the same. Thank you for your humanity.] This Petition will […]
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Under pressure, Pride Toronto reverses censorship of “Israeli apartheid”
Posted on June 24 2010 by Cecilie Surasky We”ve written extensively about the pressure campaign led in part by Canada”s B”nai Brith to ban the group Queers United Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) from all Pride Toronto events including the LGBTQI pride parade, the Dyke and Trans marches. B”nai Brith boasted in a May press release: […]
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Israeli Blood Diamonds protest
Every year, consumers the world over unwittingly spend billions of dollars on diamonds crafted in Israel, thereby helping to fund one of the world’s most protracted and contentious conflicts. Most people are unaware that Israel is one of the world’s leading producers of cut and polished diamonds. As diamonds are normally not hallmarked, consumers cannot […]
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Kahanism is flourishing in Israel’s universities.
Published 02:19 25.06.10 Yes, Kahane lives By Yitzhak Laor On July 29, 1986, extreme right-wing MK Meir Kahane submitted another no-confidence proposal: “The government’s refusal to discuss the disintegration of Zionist ideology, which endangers the existence of the Jewish state.” According to Kahane: “Since the beginning of political Zionism, the movement’s thinkers have ignored and […]
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World must deny legitimacy to Israel
KADER ASMAL: COMMENT – Jun 25 2010 13:45 The world worked together to help bring apartheid to an end, writes Kader Asmal. So why allow it to live on in Israel/Palestine? In 1980, I served on a commission of enquiry into reported violations of international law by Israel following its invasion of Lebanon. We spent […]
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