• TIAA-CREF Resists Push to Divest Israel-Related Stocks

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    A group called Jewish Voice for Peace — which is highly critical of Israel’s government — is organizing petitions and hoping to force votes by TIAA-CREF to divest from holdings in companies that the group says “pro?t from the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” The group notes […]

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  • Challenging the Jewish National Fund

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    Hazem Jamjoum, The Electronic Intifada, 21 July 2010 For anyone taking a road trip along the highways of the part of Palestine that became Israel in 1948, one is bound to spot a blue and green structure in the shape of a bird marked with the Hebrew letters KKL, which stands for Keren Kayemeth L’Yisrael, […]

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  • Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    In a recent interview renowned linguist Noam Chomsky called the BDS campaign “hypocritical”. Jeffrey Blankfort, who is the author of an earlier important critique of Chomsky”s position on Palestine, responds: When Noam Chomsky was stopped at Jordan”s Allenby Bridge and prevented from entering the Palestinian West Bank by Israeli occupation forces in May, the widespread […]

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  • Israeli right embracing one-state?

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    By Ali Abunimah There has been a strong revival in recent years of support among Palestinians for a one-state solution guaranteeing equal rights to Palestinians and Israeli Jews throughout historic Palestine. One might expect that any support for a single state among Israeli Jews would come from the far left, and in fact this is […]

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  • Are Arabs swimming with or against the BDS tide against Israeli Apartheid?

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    July 2010 by Mohannad El-Khairy Charles C. Boycott seems to have become a household word because of his strong sense of duty to his employer. An Englishman and former British soldier, Boycott was the estate agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was one of the absentee landowners who as […]

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  • “Palestinian Holocaust is ongoing”

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    July 20, 2010 In Letters to the Editor, at: http://www.annarbor.com/news/opinion/boycott-israel-proposal-deserves-local-discussion/ There is rarely an issue of AnnArbor.com that does not showcase Zionist propaganda to whitewash the crimes of Israel against Palestinians. One can easily find numerous entries for “Holocaust” when searching in AnnArbor.com, including today’s front-page Holocaust article showcasing Beth Israel Congregation (now famous for […]

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  • In an effort to combat BDS, the JCRC doubles down on the occupation

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    by Adam Horowitz on July 20, 2010 The leaders of the American Jewish community continue to struggle with how to respond to the the growing BDS movement. The Jewish Community Relations Committee of Greater Washington has adopted a particularly strange approach – they want their members to actively support the occupation. This call is in […]

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  • Israeli Shabak interrogates Israeli activist over BDS & Bil’in protests

    Posted on July 21, 2010

    by Adam Horowitz on July 20, 2010 A month ago Phil posted on an event here in New York discussing Jewish perspectives on BDS. One the speakers that night was Yonatan Shapira, who spoke in favor of boycott. Shapira recently returned to Israel and sent this update. Translation by Dena Shunra. I moved back to […]

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  • 24 hours left: Sign for divestment now!

    Posted on July 19, 2010

    We have 24 hours before the leadership of TIAA-CREF, one of the largest retirement funds in the world, holds its annual meeting in New York City. We will be there, asking TIAA-CREF to divest from companies such as Veolia, a French company that owns and operates a landfill in the West Bank. This landfill uses […]

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  • US voters can demand Palestine’s freedom

    Posted on July 19, 2010

    Cynthia McKinney, The Electronic Intifada, 19 July 2010 In response to Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, more than 800 labor and community activists picketed America’s sixth largest port in Oakland last month. The result was a historic blockade of a large Israeli cargo ship for 24 hours. Across the world, dockworkers and […]

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