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BDS campaign claims new victory against Dexia Israel
Bethlehem -Ma’an – Organizers of the Israel Colonizes – Dexia Finances campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions from Israel celebrated the recent announcement that Dexia banking group that no more loans would be approved for settlement projects. The announcement appeared in the 3 January edition of the Jerusalem Post, and according to the campaign, Dexia […]
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“No army, no prison and no wall can stop us”
Abdallah Abu Rahmah, The Electronic Intifada, 7 January 2010 Abdallah Abu Rahmah being arrested by Israeli soldiers at demonstration in Bilin in 2005. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) To all our friends, I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation?s holding cell I meet the New Year […]
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French Appeals Court Confirms Jurisdiction over Alstom Case
[La version franí§aise suit] AFPS, 22 December 2009 — The Court of Appeal of Versailles confirms the jurisdiction of the Tribunal of Nanterre regarding the legal claim brought by AFPS against Véolia transport, Alstom and Alstom transport regarding the construction and operation of a light railway in East Jerusalem. Following the admissibility ruling handed down […]
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Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign
Click here to download ABIGAIL B. BAKAN and YASMEEN ABU-LABAN’s article in Race & Class.
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Udi Aloni: Why We Support the Non-violent BDS Movement
[Aloni describes the BDS movement’s approach to the Palestinian Right of Return as “Legal and moral Recognition of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return (Obviously, each community’s position will be taken into consideration during the desired negotiations”. According to the Palestinian United Call for BDS (http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52), that is not in fact the position of the […]
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Richard Falk Interview on Radio Intifada
RADIO INTIFADA intifada=shaking off – oppression/silence brought to you by SWANA, the South/West Asia and Northern Africa Collective follow us on twitter: @radiointifada ONE HOUR SPECIAL on GAZA/Freedom March Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:00 -3pm PST KPFK 90.7fm Los Angeles, 98.7 Santa Barbara and streaming live at www.kpfk.org The SWANA team that brought you ongoing […]
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End Israeli Apartheid: The Cairo Declaration
The Gaza Freedom March has come to an end, but before the protesters dispersed they agreed on the following statement: January 1, 2010 We, international delegates meeting in Cairo during the Gaza Freedom March 2009 in collective response to an initiative from the South African delegation, state: In view of: o Israel”s ongoing collective punishment […]
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2009 BDS Highlights
PACBI Newsletter #1 The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth of the global BDS movement. The massive lethal Israeli war of aggression on the Gaza Strip in late December 2008 and January 2009 galvanized many organized groups and individuals around the world to call for BDS actions as a means […]
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Palestine/Israel: A Single State, with Liberty and Justice for All, Regardless of Religion
by Susan Abulhawa with Ramzy Baroud / December 26th, 2009 Prior to the establishment of Israel, Palestine had been a multi-religious and multi-cultural country. Christians, Muslims and Jews, Armenians, Greek Orthodox, to name a few, all had a place there; and all lived in relative harmony. Other nations fought wars and waged epic struggles to […]
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‘Israel resembles a failed state’
By Ali Abunimah One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still. Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones – more than 1,400 people, almost 400 of them children – there has been little healing and virtually no […]
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