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Global boycotts of Israel intensify after bloody Flotilla attack
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 4 June 2010 Israel’s bloody attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May killing at least nine and injuring dozens of activists carrying humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, has already intensified global actions for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it respects international law and […]
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Want To See What Israel Bans From Gaza – Why We Need The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Here are some items Israel has banned from entering the Gaza Strip. Video by Existence Is Resistance. Music by Dead Prez.
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Protestors demand India should cut off ties with Israel
By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: “India should cut off all its relations, diplomatic or otherwise, with Israel and a case must be registered against it in the International court of justice,” said Aslam Gazi, Spokeperson, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, during a Protest near Churchgate Railway station in South Mumbai on Thursday. The protest was jointly organized by […]
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BDS-Related Responses to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre of 31 May 2010
Only a few days since Israel’s illegal and fatal act of aggression against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla,, BDS-related reactions around the world were quick and qualitatively consequential. Building on 5 years of international BDS activism since the Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS was launched on 9 July 2005, a year and a half since […]
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In Response to Israel’s Assault on the Freedom Flotilla: BNC Calls for Action
Posted by RORCoalition on Thu, 06/03/2010 – 08:49 BNC, 1 June 2010 – Palestinian civil society calls for intensifying boycott and sanctions as Israel massacres humanitarian relief workers and international solidarity activists Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) strongly condemns last night”s fatal attack by the […]
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The urgency of this moment
Radhika Sainath, The Electronic Intifada, 3 June 2010 When evidence emerged that a North Korean torpedo sank a South Korean warship in disputed waters two months ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the attack. Clinton demanded that Pyongyang “stop its provocative behavior, halt its policy of threats of belligerence towards its neighbors, and […]
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Rachel Would be Proud
We received the following press release from student activists in Washington. They announced that Evergreen State College students overwhelmingly voted to divest from Israel. Rachel Corrie was a senior at the college when the Israeli army took her life with a Caterpillar bulldozer, as she stood in front of a Palestinian home they wanted to […]
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Get on the boat
Toufic Haddad, a Palestinian-American writer and researcher based in Jerusalem and author of Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. “War on Terror”, calls for a renewed commitment to the struggle to stop Israel’s war on the Palestinians. June 1, 2010 AS I write these lines, BBC Arabic language radio is reporting that […]
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Emergency BDS Day of Action – June 5th, 2010
Call for Action by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) 1 June 2010 Palestinian civil society calls for intensifying boycott and sanctions as Israel massacres humanitarian relief workers and international solidarity activists Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) strongly condemns last night”s fatal attack by the […]
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Black America, Corporate Media and the Siege of Gaza
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon This weekend, heavily armed Israeli military forces intercepted a flotilla bearing relief supplies for Gaza in international waters. The intention of the crew and passengers, who hail from more than a dozen countries and include a number of Israeli Jews, was to run the more than three year […]
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