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Announcing the 2009 Campus Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Conference at Hampshire College
National Campus Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Conference endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel What & Where: This fall from November 20th through the 22nd, students, faculty, and staff from around the country who are engaged in Palestine solidarity activism will converge for a conference on campus Boycott, Divestment, and […]
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TIAA-CREF: Don’t Invest Our Pension Funds In Israeli Settlements
September 10th, 2009 Dear TIAA-CREF: We, the undersigned clients, are writing you because of our deep concern upon discovering that TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, College Retirement Equities Fund) is investing pension funds in Africa-Israel, a company that is actively violating human rights and international law. Africa-Israel, principally owned by real estate and diamond […]
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Call for Action: Tell IGLTA that Apartheid Israel is not for LGBT Leisure Tourism!
September 8th 2009 ISSUED BY: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Toronto Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Queer BDS activists from Israel On October 10-16, 2009, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) is planning to hold a tourism conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, aimed at boosting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) […]
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Action Alert: Tell Amnesty International, No Amnesty for Apartheid Israel
August 5, 2009 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and groups around the world have been calling for months for musician Leonard Cohen to cancel his planned September concert in Israel. With the international community failing to take action to stop Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people, and inspired […]
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Israeli academic charged with war crimes to lecture on int’l law at Harvard
Alleged war criminal, Israeli Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who was recently appointed by Tel Aviv University as a lecturer in the faculty of law, is invited to a Harvard University seminar as an expert on international law. For those who do not recall, Sharvit-Baruch headed the international law division of the Israeli army during its criminal […]
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ICJ Apartheid Wall / Palestinian BDS Call Anniversaries
July 9th marks two important anniversaries for our movement. In 2004, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory ruling declaring Israel’s apartheid wall illegal. Then, in 2005, over 100 Palestinian civil society organizations issued their international call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions actions to bring Israel’s illegal 42 year military occupation to an end. […]
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Coupon for Cashiers: Don’t Stock Israeli Products!
June 20th Trader Joe”s kick off actions in Oakland, S.F. & Sacramento a big success! Bay Area organizers… “¢ Sent a letter to TJ’s Headquarters informing them of the International Boycott against Israeli products & requesting Israeli product removal. A letter was delivered to a local store where group members were told managers make buying […]
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June 20, World Refugee Day: Trader Joe’s Consumers Take Action for Palestinian Rights
Don’t Buy Into Apartheid! On Saturday, June 20, activists will gather at Trader Joe”s in different cities to demand that the company stop carrying Israeli goods such as Israeli Couscous, Dorot frozen herbs, as well as Pastures of Eden Feta cheese. A letter was sent to Trader Joe’s on June 6, 2009 but no response […]
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Please protest cultural theft from Palestine
Later this month, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will be showcasing artifacts illegally seized by Israel in 1967 after it occupied East Jerusalem. In cooperating with the Israel Antiquities Authority to import and exhibit the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ROM would be in violation of Canada”s obligations under UNESCO legal conventions and protocols, and its […]
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Don’t Buy Into Apartheid Join Us! Take Action!
Kickoff Actions to Deshelve Israeli Products Saturday, June 20th–World Refugee Day The tide of public opinion is turning against Israeli apartheid. The call for boycott, divestment and sanctions, which was initiated by Palestinian civil society in July 2005, has grown by leaps and bounds. It has been endorsed by over a dozen international labor unions, […]
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