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Palestinian Civil Society Calls on Arab States to Boycott Veolia and Alstom
Jerusalem Press Conference: Time: Monday, 16 November 2009, 10:00 am Place: Mount Scopus Hotel in Jerusalem The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)* invites you to a press conference calling for on all Arab governments to exclude the French companies, Veolia and Alstom, from all public contracts, due to their complicity in the […]
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British activists kick off week-long boycott against Israeli settlement products
Saed Bannoura [IMEMC News] 9 November 2009 – As part of the international Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK has implemented a week-long boycott against several large supermarket chains in the UK that carry Israeli products. The week-long boycott is targeting the Waitrose and Morrisons supermarket chains, in an attempt to […]
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Carmel Agrexco Blockaded on third consecutive day
Yesterday Israeli settlement produce importer Carmel Agrexco was blockaded for a third consecutive day. About twenty people joined a protest at Carmel, based in Hayes, West London. Protesters re-arranged some light plastic barriers that were helpfully left outside Carmel to block both gates, and also stood in front of the gates, blocking them for over […]
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Palestinian group staging supermarket boycott
November 8, 2009 LONDON (JTA) — A pro-Palestinian group is staging a weeklong protest at two British supermarket chains to force them to stop selling Israeli products. Palestine Solidarity Campaign is calling this week for a boycott of the Morrison and Waitrose chains as part of a long-term campaign for an economic and cultural boycott […]
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Sussex University students vote to boycott Israeli goods
Press release, University of Sussex Students’ Union, 6 November 2009 The following press release was issued by the University of Sussex Students’ Union on 5 November 2009: Students at the University of Sussex, England have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision follows the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, which calls […]
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New York Mets called on to cancel settlement fundraiser
Press release, Adalah-NY, 4 November 2009 Eleven organizations from the US, Palestine and Israel have called on baseball’s New York Mets to cancel a 21 November dinner at the Caesars Club at Citi Field for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund. The dinner is a fundraiser for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank City of Hebron. […]
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National Week of Supermarket Boycott Actions, November 7-15
Phone-in Day Wednesday November 11 This coincides with a week of action called by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign www.stopthewall.org It is time to step up the supermarket boycott campaign which calls for consumers to reject Israeli goods for as long as Palestinian rights are denied by the apartheid regime. We must specially oppose […]
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Montreal Launches the Boycott Ahava campaign!
“Montreal action inside ‘The Bay’ store calling for the boycott of Ahava products. Members of Middle East solidarity groups Tadamon! , Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and the Québec BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Committee demanded The Bay to take products of Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics off its shelves. Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories is […]
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Sweden: Israeli wine made in occupied territory
State alcohol retail monopoly labels Golan Heights wines as produced in ‘Syrian occupied territory,’ due to customer complaints. Winery CEO enraged, says: ‘We’re not selling politics’ Itamar Eichner Sweden’s state alcohol retail monopoly has recently decided to market wines produced in the Israel Golan Heights as made in “Syrian occupied territory.” The shelves carrying the […]
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SUSSEX STUDENTS VOTE TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL
Date 30/10/09 Sussex Students” Union first in UK to boycott Israeli goods FOLLOWING a landmark referendum, students at Sussex University have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision will become part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which calls upon Israel to respect international law and end the occupation of Palestine. The referendum […]
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