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Activists call on public to boycott Israeli goods
FIONA GARTLAND FIVE IRISH citizens who were deported from Israel yesterday morning after their ship was taken over by Israeli defence forces have called on the Irish people to boycott Israeli goods until the blockade of Gaza is ended. They have also called on the Government to put pressure on the EU to suspend the […]
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Supporting Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
Alice Walker 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner Posted: June 7, 2010 09:55 PM “You will have no protection.” – Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi, shortly before he was assassinated on June 12, 1963. My heart is breaking; but I do not mind. For one thing, as soon as I wrote those […]
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Israel’s Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS
Occupied Palestine, 08 June 2010 — In light of Israel”s massacre of humanitarian relief workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 and its insistence to continue its illegal siege on Gaza, pressuring Israel to comply with its obligations under international law has become of undeniable urgency. Drunk with power and impunity, […]
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180 Prominent Egyptian & Arab Intellectuals Condemn Israel’s Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Call on Egyptian Government to Take Immediate Action
180 Prominent Egyptian & Arab Intellectuals Condemn Israel’s Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Call on Egyptian Government to Take Immediate Action Egyptian intellectuals issued a statement on the afternoon of May 31st 2010, condemning the Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla” ship convoy carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza strip. The statement described the […]
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Incoming S.U. President calls for Boycott of Israeli Goods, Gay Rights Parade
Keith O”Brien, the incoming president of UCC”s Student Union, has called for a boycott of Israeli goods in the wake of Israel”s storming of a flotilla last Monday which resulted in the death of 9 people. Mr O”Brien said that “this is Apartheid, this is the crisis of our generation. We are the future voters […]
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BDS in the USA, 2001-2010
Noura Erakat Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. On April 26, 2010, the student senate at the University of California-Berkeley upheld, by one vote, an executive veto on SB 118–the student body resolution endorsing divestment of university funds from General Electric and United […]
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New Yorkers Visit Max Brenner, Ricky’s, Aroma Espresso Bar With Boycott Message
SINGING AGAINST SIEGE, BELLOWING FOR BOYCOTT NEW YORKERS VISIT MAX BRENNER, RICKY’S, AROMA ESPRESSO BAR WITH BOYCOTT MESSAGE MEDIA CONTACTS: info[at] adalahny.org New York, NY – June 5, 2010 – As the MV Rachel Corrie, the second half of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, was towed into the Israeli port of Ashdod after another attempt to […]
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Noam Chomsky: speaking of truth and power
One of the world’s major intellectual voices and a leading critic of Israel, Noam Chomsky has sided with the powerless throughout his career, while at the same time reminding the powerful of the inconvenient truths they would rather forget. He spoke to David Tresilian in Paris Known as much for his professional work in linguistics […]
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40% of Norwegians: Ban Israeli products
Posted by RORCoalition on Thu, 06/03/2010 – 08:37 AFP [YNet] Survey conducted two days after deadly Navy raid shows 9.5% of respondents already boycotting Israeli products, while 33.5% would like to. Head of country’s Socialist Left party calls on international community to boycott arms trade with Jewish state More than 40% of Norwegians are already […]
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Palestinians boycott settlers
A comprehensive, cross-factional boycott of Jewish settlement products and produce has been launched across the West Bank, writes Khaled Amayreh There are as many as half a million Jewish settlers enjoying constant army protection in the West Bank. The vast majority of these are indoctrinated in an extreme right-wing ideology that views non-Jews living in […]
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