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Fatah Leaders Call for All-Out Boycott of Israel
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu A member of the central council of the Fatah party, headed by Abbas, calls on the Palestinian Authority to extend its boycott of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) products to all of Israel. Speaking at a recent conference in El Bireh, next to Ramallah, Mahmoud al Aylool said an all-out boycott of […]
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Omar Barghouti in Rome
by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel on May 12, 2010 Last night I went to hear Omar Barghouti at an event titled “Palestine today. Nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation: academic and cultural boycott,” organised by the Roman network for solidarity with the Palestinian people. There were about 80 people there, and the event included the presentation of […]
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CAIA Province-wide Day of Action: Dalton McGuinty, Stop Doing Business with Israeli Apartheid!
CAIA Province-wide Day of Action Start: May 26 2010 12:00 pm End: May 26 2010 1:00 pm Dalton McGuinty, Stop Doing Business with Israeli Apartheid! The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) is calling on our allies to join us in telling Premier Dalton McGuinty that Ontario should not be doing business with Israeli Apartheid. This […]
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TAU professors denounce Dershowitz for speech against left
Academics hit back after U.S. commentator slams university staff for backing boycotts against Israel. By Or Kashti Senior faculty members at Tel Aviv University have come out against remarks by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz on Saturday in which he condemned Israeli university faculty who criticize Israel and have even supported an academic boycott […]
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Jordan Union To Fight For Boycott
Tuesday May 11, 2010 10:46 Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Report The Professional Associations Complex in Jordan is holding a campaign to ensure that the Jordanian markets do not carry any Israeli products. The campaign, For A Jordan Without Israeli Products, was launched as the Palestinians prepare to mark the 62nd anniversary of the […]
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Israel does not yet deserve a place in the OECD
Israel does not yet deserve a place in the OECD GEORGE BISHARAT May 10, 2010 Australia missed a chance to defend international law and human rights by voting this week to support Israel”s application for membership to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD was founded in 1960 by states practising democracy […]
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Press conference for the launching of the Italian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
Friday, May 7th, 2010 ICACBI organized a press conference in Turin for the launching of the Italian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel. Alfredo Tradardi described the objectives and the reasons of the campaign. Gianni Vattimo and Diana Carminati described other details of the campaign. Enrico Contenti underlined the support of Antonino […]
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Major victory for pro-Palestine boycott campaign: Dublin City Council passes anti-Veolia motion
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Press Release 10th May 2010 Dr David Landy of the IPSC welcomes the vote as a significant development The international Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement today scored a major victory as Dublin City Council passed a resolution calling on the City Manager not to sign or renew any […]
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Boycott group: OECD decision shows ‘complicity with war crimes’
Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Palestinian boycott movement condemned the OECD’s decision to offer Israel membership to the body on Monday, a statement read. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a coalition of Palestinian organizations and trade unions, renounced the move, with a spokesperson commenting that by accepting Israel, “OECD member countries show […]
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Politics is a matter of the heart, which is why the BDS social movement is important
by Scott McConnell on May 10, 2010 A couple of months ago I asked Mike Desch to do a piece on BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) for The American Conservative. My sense of the movement was little more than impressionistic: I knew of the campaigns to bar Israeli films from being shown at festivals; of […]
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