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Open Letter to UC President – Mohammad Talaat
Received May 11, 2010 Dear UC President Yudof, I received your enclosed message and statement, “UC Statement on Divestment,” and was saddened and disappointed. Not because I disagree with your position and the UC Board of Regents” – that”s human – rather because of the thin rationale and less-than-honest language it employs. Let me elaborate. […]
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Activist groups: No funds for Israel
By Andrew Beale | DAILY LOBO A group of students at UNM is following the University of California Berkeley”s trend by starting a “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” campaign against Israel. This means the removal of school funds from groups that make a profit in Israel, said Nada Noor, a spokeswoman for UNM”s Coalition for Peace […]
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Statement of Solidarity with the UC Berkeley Hunger Strikers
“Pessimism comes from reality, because reality is tragic. Optimism comes from action, because action changes reality.” ~Jose Mariategui We Students for Justice in Palestine stand in solidarity and support the actions of the UC Berkeley Hunger Strikers. We find their stand against the racist and violent Arizona law SB 1070 to be courageous, demonstrating a […]
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BDS: A Global Movement for Freedom and Justice
Al-Shabaka Policy Brief by Omar Barghouti Al-Shabaka policy advisor Omar Barghouti examines the formation and evolution of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Barghouti argues that BDS’s growing success is due to its rights-based approach, collective leadership, call to Israelis of conscience, and promotion of context-specific strategies. Overview While media attention over the past […]
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NGO platform calls for Israeli boycott
Matthew Vella The development NGO platform Skop has called for a boycott of Israeli companies in the wake of the shooting of Bianca Zammit, the Maltese activist injured by a live bullet shot by the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza. “We urge all those of goodwill who want justice for the Palestinian people to demand […]
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Protest the Caterpillar shareholder meeting
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Time: 12:30pm – 5:00pm Location: Northern Trust Bank Street: 50 S La Salle St City/Town: Chicago, IL We’re planning something big for this year’s shareholder meeting, and need your support at the protest! If you travel for one BDS event this year, consider making it the Caterpillar shareholder meeting in […]
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Solidarity is a weapon against Israeli propaganda
May 6, 2010 Posted by yaman Perhaps the most important success of the divestment movement at Berkeley has been overlooked. Yes, it is true that a super majority of the student senate supported divestment from Israeli war crimes and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. It is true that the vote was reversed only […]
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Quartet ex-envoy’s investment helps Israel greenwash settlements
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 6 May 2010 Former World Bank president and Middle East Quartet envoy James D. Wolfensohn is an investor in an Israeli company that is developing transport infrastructure for Jewish-only settlements built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada reveals. Wolfensohn provided […]
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UCSD Israel divestment measure tabled
Washington – Student Senators at the University of California, San Diego indefinitely tabled a measure to divest funds from two US companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, activists said. This came at a meeting on Wednesday night, a second attempt to pass a divestment measure after senators failed to agree on the language […]
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Anti-Israel divestment motion coming to University of California, Riverside
May 5, 12:45 PMLA Middle Eastern Policy Examiner Paul Kujawsky The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is an international, multi-faceted effort to delegitimize Israel. Despite the occasional disingenuous disclaimer, and although cloaked in the language of human rights and peace, the BDSers deny the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and […]
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