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Elvis Costello: Don’t Play Apartheid Israel
PSC Letter to Elvis Costello 27 April 2010 Dear Elvis Costello, We were shocked to see from your website that you are planning on performing in Israel this June. The Palestinian people have lived under military occupation for decades. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so […]
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BDS Alert: Israeli Gov’t Funded Film Ajami Returns to Seattle and Other US Cities
In early March, [Michelle J. Kinnican] wrote in the Palestine Chronicle, “Ajami is an Israeli film that is in contention for an Academy Award this Sunday for Best Foreign Language Film. Whether it wins the Oscar or not, it has already gained a lot of international attention and accolades and it will probably be in […]
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BDS: Noam Sheizaf teaches the “Israeli Left” the ABC of denial
The number of people who understood the deep perfidy also known as “the Israeli left” used to be small, and their ideas used to be taboo outside their miniscule publications. One of the salutary effects of BDS is that it helps clarify this perfidy and open the debate to a kind of political knowledge that […]
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Israeli Citizens Say: Do Not Approve Israel’s OECD Membership Until It Abides by International Law
In May 2010 the OECD ministerial committee will vote on the admission of Israel as a member of the organization. As Israeli citizens, we are concerned by the policies of the Israeli governments, policies which violate international law, violate the basic human rights of Palestinians under occupation and serve to instigate instability, violence and suffering […]
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Canadian Union of Postal Workers Urges Canada to Block Israel’s OECD Membership
April 28, 2010 Prime Minister Stephen Harper House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Dear Prime Minister Harper: Via mail and email On behalf of the 54,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, I am strongly urging you to block Israel”s membership to the Organization for Economic Co?Operation and Development (OECD) until it […]
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Volvo equipment: Israel’s weapons to destroy al-Walaja homes
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 29 April 2010 On 16 April, approximately 100 Palestinian villagers and internationals walked towards the construction site of Israel’s wall in the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja, four kilometers northwest of Bethlehem. When the protesters were leaving the village, four Israeli army jeeps and one police vehicle entered and […]
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Sample letter – we are only days away, keep up the pressure
Download sample letter here Dear friends, Attached to this e-mail is an english translation of a letter sent to the OECD delegation of Sweden by The Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden (PGS). PGS is distributing the document as a sample letter without restrictions for other organizations to pick up, translate, modify and send to their […]
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Amitav Ghosh lands in controversy over Israeli literary award
Shreya Roy Chowdhury, TNN, Apr 29, 2010, 03.17am IST NEW DELHI: Writer Amitav Ghosh is in the middle of an unsavoury award controversy. The writer of award-winning novels like The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Tide has won the million-dollar Dan David Prize. Won for “Rendition of the 20th Century,” he’ll share it with Booker-winning […]
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Invincible (at Hampshire College) shouts out to UC Schools BDS!
UC Berkeley is going to vote once more on April 28th to overturn the student president’s veto of the divestment bill. Updates… http://www.caldivestfromapartheid.com/ Also – UC San Diego students have introduced a divestment bill, coming up for a vote also on 4/28. http://www.ucsddivestforpeace.org/ Please sign a petition here in support of the new UC San […]
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Anna Baltzer on UCSD Divestment for Peace
Anna Baltzer discusses her views on UCSD Divestment for Peace. Visit UCSDDivestforPeace.org for more information!
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