• On boycotting the post-Tel Aviv Placebo concert in Lebanon

    Posted on June 8, 2010

    Strangely, there has been a lot of protest in Lebanon about holding Placebo to task for not respecting the call to boycott Israel. The following comes as a response to that: By Maya Mikdashi I will be boycotting the Placebo concert in Lebanon, and the reason is simple. Art is not a-political, and it never […]

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  • Incoming S.U. President calls for Boycott of Israeli Goods, Gay Rights Parade

    Posted on June 7, 2010

    Keith O”Brien, the incoming president of UCC”s Student Union, has called for a boycott of Israeli goods in the wake of Israel”s storming of a flotilla last Monday which resulted in the death of 9 people. Mr O”Brien said that “this is Apartheid, this is the crisis of our generation. We are the future voters […]

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  • Palestinian Trade Union Movement Calls on International Dockworkers Unions to Block Loading/Offloading Israeli Ships

    Posted on June 7, 2010

    Palestinian Trade Union Movement Calls on International Dockworkers Unions to Block Loading/Offloading Israeli Ships Until Israel Complies Fully with International Law and Ends its Illegal Siege of Gaza June 7, 2010- The Palestinian trade union movement, as a key constituent member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on dockworkers’ unions worldwide […]

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  • Unions must boycott Israel

    Posted on June 7, 2010

    By John Passant – posted Monday, 7 June 2010 To the Australian Council of Trade Unions, I am writing this to you in your capacity as the peak body of trade unions in Australia. The Australian trade union movement has a proud history of opposing oppression in Australia and around the world. It joined the […]

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  • BDS in the USA, 2001-2010

    Posted on June 7, 2010

    Noura Erakat Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. On April 26, 2010, the student senate at the University of California-Berkeley upheld, by one vote, an executive veto on SB 118–the student body resolution endorsing divestment of university funds from General Electric and United […]

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  • Loewenstein: Boycott, divest from and sanction Israel

    Posted on June 6, 2010

    Sydney-based journalist and author Antony Loewenstein is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies and author of the best-selling 2006 book My Israel Question. He is the co-founder of advocacy group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and is a board member of Macquarie University”s Centre for Middle East and North African Studies. Articles and commentary by Loewenstein […]

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  • British Writers in Support of Palestine

    Posted on June 6, 2010

    June 4th 2010 I”m proud to be a signatory to this letter published in shortened form in the Independent on Sunday. Dear Editor The murder of humanitarian aid workers aboard the Mavi Marmara in international waters is the latest tragic example of Israel”s relentless attacks on human rights. But while violently preventing the free passage […]

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  • CALL FROM GAZA TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SIEGE

    Posted on June 6, 2010

    CALL FROM GAZA TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SIEGE Besieged Gaza, Palestine 5.6.2010 One-and-a-half years after Israeli army perpetrated a massacre upon the population of Gaza, Apartheid Israel commits another crime against partisans of Palestine in international waters. The world is moved at the plight of Palestinians and their supporters. All […]

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  • Culture Jam Against the Blockade of Gaza and Attack on the Flotilla

    Posted on June 6, 2010

    Wow! More moving ads in SF. May 31st, 2010, Israel attacked an aid flotilla to Gaza. 700 kidnapped, 9 murdered and Israel says it is the victim. Sound familiar? Same story since 1948. END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA AND HOLD ISRAEL ACCOUNTABLE!

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  • What Next? The Freedom Flotilla and the Struggle to Break the Siege of Gaza

    Posted on June 6, 2010

    Rafeef Ziadah While people around the world are still in shock at the killing by Israeli commandos of innocent human rights activists on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, those who have been following Israeli state actions for some time are not surprised. This is an ongoing pattern of Israeli state terrorism and collective punishment. While […]

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