• Stolen Beauty Victory: Costco Feels the Love

    In mid-December Rula Borelli, prompted by a friend who brought her attention to the fact that AHAVA products were on sale at Costco, sent a letter to the company asking them to remove AHAVA from their shelves, explaining about AHAVA”s illegal practices and the Stolen Beauty boycott campaign against them. Borelli then started a Facebook […]

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  • London rally targets UK supplier of Israeli arms

    Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:24:52 GMT Demonstrators rally in southern England to protest against a British company that provided Israel with arms during its 2009 onslaught in Gaza. Protesters in Brighton surrounded the EDO MBM factory, a subsidiary of the American multi-national ITT corporation that supplies essential parts for the Israeli air force, marking the […]

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  • Objects of Desire: Israeli diamonds are forever … on your conscience.

    * Sean Clinton * 11 Jan 2010 In recent years the romantic image of diamonds as objects of desire has been tarnished by bloody conflicts in central Africa that are often funded by the trade of locally mined gems. Human rights organizations have begun a campaign against “conflict diamonds,” or “blood diamonds,” and the ensuing […]

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  • Boycott Israeli Diamonds

    An Israeli Blood Diamond is forever…on your conscience The Israeli diamond industry is one of the main arteries sustaining the Zionist military occupation of Palestine and subjugation of the Palestinian people. In 2005 the Israeli diamond industry accounted for 30% of Israel”s total manufacturing output. Israel is the world”s No.1 exporter of cut and polished […]

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  • Fayyad launches settlement good boycott fund

    Bethlehem – Ma”an – Caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad launched on Tuesday the National Dignity Fund, as part of an initiative undertaken by the Palestinian Authority to rid the Palestinian market of settlement goods at a ceremony in the Red Crescent headquarters in Al-Birreh, Ramallah. The National Dignity Fund aims at increasing the availability of […]

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  • Moderate Jordan Picking Up Israeli Boycott

    January 3, 2010 Jordan, which has signed a peace agreement with Israel, maintaining relatively open borders with Israel [albeit with restrictions] is showing its true colors, working to increase the scope of its anti-Israel boycott, seeking to halt Israeli produce from the Hashemite Kingdom. In line with the strict state policy, the Jordanian minister of […]

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  • Scottish Government plan for ‘trade mission’ to Israel will shame Scotland!

    [The visit is due to take place NEXT WEEK: 10-15 January 2010] This week Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, told UN Radio: “Obviously Israel does not respond to language of diplomacy, which has encouraged the lifting of the blockade and so what […]

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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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  • Winning the war for local produce in the West Bank

    Rachel Shabi RAMALLAH // The cries of Hussam, the market-vendor, to buy his juicy winter “strawberries, strawberries” ring clear across the bustling street market in Ramallah. But this 25-year-old stall-keeper takes no pride in his trade. “They are from Israel,” he said, casting a gloomy eye over the gleaming pile of fruit. “Of course I […]

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