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Palestine Takes Center Stage in the Antiwar Movement
By Andrew Pollack – New York The United National Antiwar Conference, attended by 850 people from July 23 to 25, 2010 in Albany, New York, marked a sea change in the attitude of the antiwar movement toward Palestine. For the first time a broadly representative, democratic national conference of peace activists adopted the demand “End […]
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BDS Tour: La Rochelle
A partir du 10 juillet prochain, nous allons sillonner les routes de France et faire étape dans 16 villes, pour sensibiliser la population í la situation en Palestine, au blocus de Gaza, í la colonisation galopante, et í la nécessité d’une réaction citoyenne face í ces violations du droit international qui nous concernent tous, car […]
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Carlos Latuff Images for BDS Activists
Dear brothers and sisters-in-arts, Presented here is a new series on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. These images are Copyleft, meaning that BDS campaigns all around the world are free to use them in their materials. People are encouraged to reproduce these images on blogs, newspapers, magazines, books, posters, in order to promote […]
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BDS backers are basically terrorists in disguise (in hasbara minds)
Published on 31 July 2010 This is almost funny. Palestinian activists and writers, such as Ali Abunimah and Diana Buttu, backing BDS are, according to this Zionist propaganda video, “anti-Israel” because they don”t accept the two-state solution, a pipe-dream that is both impractical and immoral. Seriously, this is what Zionism is left with; smearing Palestinians […]
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Activists work to stop tax-exempt donations to Israeli settlements
Alice Speri, The Electronic Intifada, 30 July 2010 As Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank continues to be a strain on US-Israel relations, an unflattering light is being shone on US private donations towards the development of the settlements that are increasingly encroaching on Palestinian land. Most of the construction work in […]
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Israel wages war against media and activists
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 27 July 2010 NABI SALAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel issued a statement recently condemning what it sees as a […]
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Victories as N. American boycott movement gains momentum
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2010 On 15 July, a food co-operative with two locations in Olympia, Washington, voted to become the first grocery stores in the United States to ban Israeli-made items from its shelves. The Olympia Food Co-op’s board of directors last week resolved to publicly join the international boycott, divestment and […]
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Jacob Weisberg sees the power of BDS, and is scared
by Paul Woodward on July 25, 2010 “Don”t boycott Israel,” says the headline in Newsweek. Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief at Slate and author of the piece calls a boycott a “repellent idea” with consequences that are “intrinsically vile.” But pointing out the “sheeplike, liberal opinion” of celebrities like Meg Ryan is unlikely to break up the […]
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International labor report’s omissions reveal pro-Israel bias
Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 23 July 2010 Every June, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) releases its Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights. According to a press release that accompanied the 2010 publication (which reports on events in 2009), “the Middle East remains among the regions of the world where union rights […]
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Once Upon a Time, When Israel Was a Democracy
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jul 25, 2010 (IPS) – Once upon a time, Israel for all its shortcomings, was regarded by much of the world as a true and vibrant democracy. Israelis themselves were never shy of parading their country as “the only democracy in the Middle East.” With Israel’s occupation of […]
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