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Spanish initiative for the fifth anniversary of the BDS call
BDS Poster Contest This 9th of July 2010 it will be 5 years since the Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) of the Palestinian civil society. For this reason and to encourage civil society worldwide to join in against indifference and powerlessness, we call this BDS Poster Contest with the BDS motif (be it […]
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Victory at Oakland port: Israeli ship blocked from unloading
Sunday, June 20, 2010 By: Gloria La Riva First ever boycott at US port in solidarity with Palestine In a historic and unprecedented action today, over 800 labor and community activists blocked the gates of the Oakland docks in the early morning hours, prompting longshore workers to refuse to cross the picket lines where they […]
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Hundreds in Oakland protest Gaza blockade
Victoria Colliver, David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writers Sunday, June 20, 2010 (06-20) 12:35 PDT OAKLAND — Hundreds of demonstrators, condemning Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, picketed at the Port of Oakland on Sunday and may have prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for the day. Two shifts of longshoremen agreed not to […]
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Noam Chomsky’s Hypocrisy
By Ghali Hassan 20 June, 2010 Countercurrents.org “I don’t regard myself as a critic of Israel. I regard myself a supporter of Israel … I think the U.S. should continue to support Israel”. [1] – Noam Chomsky The American linguist Noam Chomsky is often described by Western media as “arguably the world’s most influential intellectual […]
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EU rubber-stamping grants for Israeli war industry
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 21 June 2010 BRUSSELS (IPS) – A leading Israeli supplier of warplanes used to kill and maim civilians in Gaza is in the running for two new scientific research grants from the European Union. Israel’s attacks on Gaza in late 2008 and 2009 provided its air force with an opportunity […]
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Boycott of settlement goods is biting hard
Maariv: Targeted boycott and divestment pushing companies out of the settlements Didi Remez, 21 June 2010 The cover story of this morning”s (June 21 2010) Maariv business section reports that targeted boycott and divestment actions – Israeli, Palestinian and international – are pushing an increasing number of Israeli companies out of the West Bank settlements […]
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A Queer Boycott
Bekhsoos has been publishing a lot of news around the Queer BDS movement and the different anti-Zionist movements around Pride and other international conferences. So for this issue we found it fit to explain (for lack of a better word) to our readership why we so strongly support BDS and why we stand against Zionism […]
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Activists prevent Israeli ship from unloading at US port
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 21 June 2010 For the first time in US history, a peaceful protest was able to stop workers from unloading an Israeli cargo ship on Sunday, 20 June, in the San Francisco Bay area. From 5:30am until 7pm, social justice activists and labor union organizers blocked and picketed several entrances at […]
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Huge outpouring of Oakland picketers stop unloading of Israeli ship
by Henry Norr on June 20, 2010 If anyone had any doubts that the movement for justice in Palestine is growing by leaps and bounds, in numbers, breadth, and determination, check out what happened this morning in Oakland, CA: “¢ somewhere between 700 and 1,000 demonstrators from all over the San Francisco Bay Area made […]
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Elton John: No-one will stop me playing in Israel
By Jessica Elgot, June 18, 2010 Elton John: ‘I won’t boycott Israel like other artists” Elton John has performed a triumphantly successful concert to nearly 50,000 cheering fans in Ramat Gan, telling Israelis: “Nobody gonna stop me from playing here, baby”. The country”s music fans have suffered several high profile cancellations, including bands such as […]
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