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University occupations over Gaza
Mona Baker At the end of December 2008 a wave of protest occupations swept across UK university campuses in response to the Israeli attacks on Gaza. The “occupation movement” started on 13 January 2009, when students at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London occupied the Brunei Gallery and issued a list of […]
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Israeli orgs call on Norway to divest from occupation
Press release, Various undersigned, 14 May 2009 In an unprecedented way, a wide array of Israeli civil society and grassroots organizations has sent a letter to the Norwegian Pension Fund, addressed to its Council on Ethics, urging it to support their efforts for a just peace and equality in Israel/Palestine by divesting from all companies […]
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Stop Veolia running the London Cycle Hire Scheme
Palestine campaigners call on London Mayor to say “Peddle Off to Veolia,” for supporting the Israeli occupation The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has called on the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TFL) to exclude the French transport company Veolia from bidding for the contact to run London”s proposed free cycle hire […]
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11 national and international networks and organizations call on Norway to divest from Africa-Israel due to settlement construction
May 5, 2009 The Council on Ethics Norwegian Government Pension Fund Government of Norway Dear Members of the Council on Ethics, As diverse organizations concerned with human rights, international law, justice and peace in the Middle East, we are writing in support of the West Bank villages of Bil”in and Jayyous to call on the […]
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An Open Letter to Barack Obama from a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
May Day Weekend Edition May 1 – 3, 2009 Stand Up to Israeli Apartheid By MAIREAD MAQUIRE DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA, I found your book “Dreams from my Father” a moving and inspiring story of your own struggle to find your identity and purpose in life. You found it for sure, and today carry the hopes […]
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Palestinian workers and activists call on trade unions around the globe to increase solidarity
Release the Palestinian Activists Arrested in al-Ma”sara! After arrests and injuries on Workers Day, On May 1, people from the village of al-Ma”sara and the neighbouring villages in Bethlehem area commemorated Workers Day with a march in protest against the Apartheid Wall. The Wall continues to encroach on their land and isolates their villages. The […]
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Norway gov’t, banks investing in settlement construction company
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2009 As the pressure on companies to pull out from business facilitating Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip grows, it has been recently revealed that in Norway three private banks and the state pension fund invested in one such company. Norwatch, the Norwegian financial watchdog, […]
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BDS: Thinking Outside the PLO Box
‘The tragedy of Gaza was not enough to wake the PLO up from its slumber.’ By Samah Sabawi Three months ago, the world stood still for one rare moment of absolute clarity as it grasped the implication of Israel’s imprisonment of a civilian population and its use of aid and medicine as a political bargaining […]
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A slander on our movement
Lichi D’Amelio responds to the charge, sadly made in a left-wing newspaper, that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic. April 8, 2009 “PART OF the deepening pattern of Jew-baiting and anti-Semitism in the middle-class left worldwide.” You might think that such an ugly and provocative statement had to come from […]
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Simon Liebling ’12: Student power for Palestine
Simon Liebling ’12 Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Students at the New School withstood pepper spray attacks by police last week while trying to force the ouster of their controversial president, continuing the tradition of a year of occupations as part of a national campaign for accessible education. The beleaguered administrators they target could almost […]
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