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Jewish Chronicle on PSC meeting with Tescos
Tesco denies labels shift but “will meet” Palestine group Tesco executives have agreed to meet members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to discuss labelling on produce from West Bank settlements, despite insisting that there will be no change in their policy. The long-challenged voluntary labelling guidelines, whereby supermarkets are encouraged by the government to state […]
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Arabs renew calls for Israel boycott
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– The 82nd conference for the Arab liaison officers of economic boycott of Israel opened in Damascus on Tuesday with the participation of 14 Arab countries amidst renewed calls for activating those offices. The general commissioner of the main office for the boycott of Israel, Mohammed Al-Tayeb, said in a press statement that holding […]
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Boycott of Israeli goods underway as occupying administration bans Palestinian dairy products
Jerusalem / PNN – In the wake of a decision by the occupying Israeli administration to prevent all Palestinian dairy products from reaching Jerusalem shops, a boycott is underway. Using a frequent tool of the nonviolent Palestinian resistance, Khaled Mansour is coordinating a grassroots campaign to boycott Israeli goods. Operating under the umbrella of the […]
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Boycott of Israeli goods in Hebron to ensure that “occupation does not return a profit”
Hebron / PNN – The southern West Bank city of Hebron and its entire governorate is being targeted with the ferocity currently directed at East Jerusalem. A few hundred ultra-extremist settlers are rapidly overtaking more Palestinian land, a process that has been slowly underway for years. Along with southern Nablus, the Hebron area houses some […]
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Stop Veolia running the London Cycle Hire Scheme
Palestine campaigners call on London Mayor to say “Peddle Off to Veolia,” for supporting the Israeli occupation The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has called on the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TFL) to exclude the French transport company Veolia from bidding for the contact to run London”s proposed free cycle hire […]
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Strasbourg Boycott
Dear friends, chers amis, liebe Freunde, Here you find some pictures from our yesterday’s bicycle-rally through Strasbourg, “in the rain” “Boycott Israel”. Escaping from rain we had become subject of a turmoil with security guards of the “LES HALLES” commercial center, who wouldn’t – “par order of the center’s direction” – let us in, because […]
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Arab and international farmers conference calls for boycott of Israel
The agricultural unions and non-governmental organizations present at the conference on “The agricultural sector in Gaza between reality and challenges”, organized in Amman in March 2009, have called in their final declaration, among others, for the world to impose sanctions, to start all forms of boycott campaigns and to withdraw investments from Israel. FULL TEXT: […]
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11 national and international networks and organizations call on Norway to divest from Africa-Israel due to settlement construction
May 5, 2009 The Council on Ethics Norwegian Government Pension Fund Government of Norway Dear Members of the Council on Ethics, As diverse organizations concerned with human rights, international law, justice and peace in the Middle East, we are writing in support of the West Bank villages of Bil”in and Jayyous to call on the […]
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Putting words of support into boycott action
Adri Nieuwhof and Omar Barghouti, The Electronic Intifada, 5 May 2009 The tramway under construction in Jerusalem, February 2008. (Anne Paq/ActiveStills) The Derail Veolia and Alstom Campaign, operating in full coordination with the leadership of the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), is in full swing. After Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized Israel […]
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