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This is what accountability looks like.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 What does accountability for human rights abuses and violations of international law look like? Maybe like this: Following a letter from Oxfam to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown which “raised humanitarian concerns about the impact of the occupied Israeli territories on the Palestinian people,” the UK is requiring retailers to clearly […]
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Flashpoints Update on Growing BDS Movement to Combat Israeli Apartheid in Palestine
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted on December 16, 2009 by Flashpoints We feature a series of frontline reports from the Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen, where police beat protesters and prevented key activists from participating in the talks; also, an update on the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to combat Israeli apartheid in Palestine, […]
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Settlement goods confiscated in Jericho
Published today (updated) 16/12/2009 19:03 Jericho – Ma”an – Large quantities of settlement-bought products were confiscated and destroyed on Wednesday in Jericho, following a market inspection undertaken by customs officers, the Palestinian ministries of health and economy, in cooperation with the PA preventative security. The ministries said in a statement that the confiscated illegal settlement […]
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Victory – Credo Mobile Hangs Up On Moto!
Last week we found out that Credo Mobile, a telephone service provider that claims to be guided by progressive values, stopped offering Motorola phones to their customers after complaints from our supporters. This is a major victory in our campaign to boycott Motorola for profiting from Israeli occupation and apartheid against Palestinians! Please take a […]
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Dutch probing Ahava’s settlement status
By HERB KEINON Dec 15, 2009 A Dutch decision to investigate whether – contrary to EU regulations – Ahava is benefiting from lower tariffs given to Israeli-made products when its cosmetics are made in a settlement, has nothing to do with a recent British decision to advise retailers to mark products from Jewish areas beyond […]
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Call for Boycott!
Monday, December 14, 2009 Neighbors went furniture shopping, looking for the best buy and finally found exactly what they wanted at a price much less than all other other stores. Great you think. Yes, that’s what they thought, too, until it was time to put in the order. As soon as the clerk heard where […]
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Boycott Israeli Goods Demonstration in Sheffield
Sheffield PSC hold a boycott action in Sheffield, UK 12 December 2009
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Where will boycott show up next?
Friday, December 11, 2009 Stories about boycotts of goods produced in Israeli settlements have been popping up all over the place recently. Here’s just a few examples. Yesterday, we let you know about an article on Ahava at CNNMoney. CNN refused to say whether there is an official boycott of Ahava in the United States–something […]
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UK calls for clearer Israeli labels
Britain has advised UK supermarkets selling goods from the West Bank to state explicitly on the labels whether the content has come from Israeli settlement or Palestinian-owned farms. The recommendation, issued by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), is not a legal requirement but Israeli officials and settler leaders have reacted […]
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Boycott Israel update
Boycotting Israeli goods should become easier in the UK following an order that goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank be labelled as such. Here’s the Guardian: Britain has acted to increase pressure on Israel over its West Bank settlements by advising UK supermarkets on how to distinguish between foods from the settlements […]
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