• BNC welcomes cancellation of visit by settlement mayors to Netherlands

    Posted on September 25, 2010

    Occupied Palestine, 23 September 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, warmly salutes the decision taken by the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), in consultation with the Dutch Foreign Ministry, to cancel a visit by Israeli […]

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  • Netherlands cancels tour by Israeli mayors over settlers’ presence

    Posted on September 20, 2010

    Dutch Foreign Ministry cancels tour because participant list includes settlement representatives. By Jonathan Lis The Netherlands on Sunday cancelled a tour of the country by a forum of Israeli mayors because their group included representatives of West Bank settlements. The professional delegation, funded by the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish-American charity, was supposed to fly […]

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  • Netherlands boycott action for Ramadan

    Posted on July 11, 2010

    Successful BDS action in Utrecht (the Netherlands) Start of the Campaign: Don”t buy Israeli dates for Ramadan On July 9, the international BDS day of action, over 25 people handed out flyers to the visitors of the Turkish Ulu Mosque in Utrecht. The flyers said: Don”t forget Gaza, Don”t buy Israeli dates for Ramadan. The […]

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  • Don’t buy Israeli dates for Ramadan

    Posted on June 25, 2010

    Dutch initiative for fifth anniversary The Dutch BDS platform is working on the “Don”t buy Israeli dates for Ramadan” campaign. This platform consists of representatives of about 20 organisations, church and mosque related groups and other groups and individuals that work together on the BDS campaign. The BDS platform has local organizers in over 15 […]

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  • Massive anti-Israel protests across Scandinavia

    Posted on June 1, 2010

    Politics – Published Monday, 31 May 2010 19:48 | Author: AFP / The Swedish Wire “Attacking the boats makes Israel a terrorist state”. “¢ Sweden: Israeli raid ‘completely unacceptable’ “¢ ‘Israel is guilty of colonialism and apartheid’ Thousands of people came out across Scandinavia Monday to demonstrate against Israel’s storming of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla […]

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  • BDS BOYCOT ISRAEL PRODUCTEN Aha!

    Posted on May 29, 2010

    Met een campagne voor Boycot, Desinvesteren en Sancti es (BDS) willen wij de Israí«lische regering onder druk zett en om: ? zich te houden aan het internationaal recht en om de legiti emerechten van het Palesti jnse volkte erkennen; ? een einde te maken aan hetbeleg van de Strook van Gaza en de bezetti ng […]

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  • Talks Fail to Bring About Compromise – UCSD Guardian

    Posted on May 7, 2010

    By Angela Chen The A.S. Campus Affairs Committee voted 7-8 last night to indefinitely table a controversial resolution calling for the UC system to divest from General Electric and United Technologies – companies the document claims are profiting from alleged Israeli human-rights violations in the Palestinian territories. Because the resolution was tabled during the committee […]

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  • Report Back: Another great flash mob, this time in the Netherlands

    Posted on March 31, 2010

    Follow Me, do as I do: Don’t buy Israeli Apartheid 30th of March, International BDS day. Utrecht, Netherlands Boycott Israeli products as long as Israel doesn’t comply with international law. Don’t do business as usual with a country that commits the crime of Apartheid.

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  • Scandanavian financial institutions drop Elbit due to BDS pressure

    Posted on February 20, 2010

    Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 19 February 2010 Despite Israel’s oppressive tactics against it, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has marked additional victories with many institutional investors divesting from or blacklisting Israeli military contractor Elbit Systems. One of the largest Dutch pension funds told The Electronic Intifada today that it is selling off […]

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  • Freeze Flashmob to promote Boycott Israel in Dutch supermarket

    Posted on January 29, 2010

    It was a busy Thursday night on the 28th of January in the big supermarket Albert Heijn in Utrecht (Holland). A group of Dutch activists surprised the management with a Freeze Flashmob in the middle of the shop. Well, they were not really surprised that something happened, obviously they had been told that something was […]

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