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BDS in the USA, 2001-2010
Noura Erakat Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. On April 26, 2010, the student senate at the University of California-Berkeley upheld, by one vote, an executive veto on SB 118–the student body resolution endorsing divestment of university funds from General Electric and United […]
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Loewenstein: Boycott, divest from and sanction Israel
Sydney-based journalist and author Antony Loewenstein is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies and author of the best-selling 2006 book My Israel Question. He is the co-founder of advocacy group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and is a board member of Macquarie University”s Centre for Middle East and North African Studies. Articles and commentary by Loewenstein […]
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CALL FROM GAZA TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SIEGE
CALL FROM GAZA TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SIEGE Besieged Gaza, Palestine 5.6.2010 One-and-a-half years after Israeli army perpetrated a massacre upon the population of Gaza, Apartheid Israel commits another crime against partisans of Palestine in international waters. The world is moved at the plight of Palestinians and their supporters. All […]
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Culture Jam Against the Blockade of Gaza and Attack on the Flotilla
Wow! More moving ads in SF. May 31st, 2010, Israel attacked an aid flotilla to Gaza. 700 kidnapped, 9 murdered and Israel says it is the victim. Sound familiar? Same story since 1948. END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA AND HOLD ISRAEL ACCOUNTABLE!
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What Next? The Freedom Flotilla and the Struggle to Break the Siege of Gaza
Rafeef Ziadah While people around the world are still in shock at the killing by Israeli commandos of innocent human rights activists on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, those who have been following Israeli state actions for some time are not surprised. This is an ongoing pattern of Israeli state terrorism and collective punishment. While […]
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SJP releases “Facing Apartheid,” personal accounts of Palestinian students
A project by Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley, Facing Apartheid is part of an effort to educate the campus community on its connection to and responsibility for illegal military occupation and apartheid policies which directly and systematically impede access to higher education for Palestinian students in the West Bank, Gaza and 1948 […]
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Author Banks urges boycott of Israel after raid on flotilla
Elizabeth McMeekin 5 Jun 2010 Scottish author Iain Banks has called for a cultural and educational boycott of Israel after its troops boarded an aid flotilla bound for Palestine and killed at least nine people on Monday. The 56-year-old author, who lives in North Queensferry in Fife, has also asked his agent to turn down […]
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Israel protesters burn flags, throw shoes in Auckland
UPDATED 4:41p.m. Sat, 05 Jun 2010 3:06p.m. Hundreds of anti-Israeli protestors hurled old shoes at the US consulate in Auckland today in an “expression of outrage and anger” over clashes between Israeli armed forces and Gaza-bound aid workers. See photos of the Queen St protests against the Israel government The demonstration, organised by Global Peace […]
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You will have no protection
Alice Walker, The Electronic Intifada, 4 June 2010 You will have no protection — Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi, shortly before he was assassinated, 12 June, 1963 My heart is breaking; but I do not mind. For one thing, as soon as I wrote those words I was able to weep. Which […]
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