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US Store discontinues Ahava dead sea products after boycott call
Friday February 12, 2010 04:42 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Report post The “Stolen Beauty” campaign has declared a small victory, after Costco stores agreed to stop carrying Dead Sea Salt from the Ahava corporation. AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories is an Israeli cosmetics company whose manufacturing plant is in an illegal settlement on Palestinian […]
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Protestors hit Beirut Starbucks
Customers flee as demonstrators express displeasure with coffee chain’s pro-Israel CEO Associated Press Protesters from a leftist group shouted anti-Israel slogans outside of a Starbucks coffee shop Wednesday during a protest in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Demonstrators tried to block the entrance to the shop, thereby causing customers inside to flee. The protesters said they targeted […]
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Have a Heart: Boycott AHAVA
This Valentine”s Day, have a heart and join our Stolen Beauty campaign to boycott Ahava cosmetics by contacting Ricky”s NYC, a family-owned chain store here in New York City, to tell them, “Stop carrying AHAVA cosmetics! AHAVA means love in Hebrew, but there is nothing loving about the company”s practices.” Even though you may not […]
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The Netanyahu-Fayyad “economic peace” one year on
Ziyaad Lunat, The Electronic Intifada, 10 February 2010 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was elected on a platform of “economic peace” with Palestinians in the West Bank. He contended that developing the Palestinian economy, by providing Palestinians with jobs and a better living stands, would render the “problems” between Israelis and Palestinians “more accessible for […]
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Fueling Israeli Apartheid: Corporate Profits and Accountability
The Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid presents Fueling Israeli Apartheid: Corporate Profits and Accountability a conversation with Dalit Baum of WhoProfits.org Tuesday, February 16 “¢ 7pm El Centro Del Pueblo Auditorium 474 Valencia at 16th St., San Francisco Donations requested at the door Israeli and international corporations are directly involved in apartheid and […]
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Badil Releases Paper on Potential Avenues to Challenge Corporate: Involvement in Israel’s Oppression of the Palestinian People
4 February 2010 – BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights has released new working paper under the title: “Principles and Mechanisms to Hold Business Accountable for Human Rights Abuses: Potential Avenues to Challenge Corporate Involvement in Israel”s Oppression of the Palestinian People.” The paper is authored by U.S. attorney Yasmine Gado. About […]
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Israeli Occupation Supportive Companies To Boycott
By Stephen Lendman 03 February, 2010 In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the global BDS movement for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights” for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian diaspora refugees. Since 1948, hundreds of UN […]
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Jordan’s anti-normalization body calls for annulling peace treaty with Israel
A top anti-normalization Jordanian committee, grouping opposition parties and professional associations, called on the Jordanian government on Sunday to scrap the peace treaty with Israel, Xinhua reported. “We urge the Jordanian government and other Arab states that signed peace treaties with the Zionist enemy (Israel) to abolish these treaties as they are considered a declaration […]
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Settlement goods – House of Commons debate, 27 January 2010
A debate in the House of Commons on EU-Israel trade on 27 January 2010 contains a detailed analysis by Phyllis Starkey of how EU-Israel regulations on trade in settlement goods are evaded, and a government response. The account below has been marginally edited to take out page breaks, interruptions and the like – see the […]
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