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French Protest of Israeli Raid Reaches Wide Audience
By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: June 12, 2010 PARIS – A small cinema chain has set off a sharp debate in France about the deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza, and whether some French are overreacting to the episode. In what was described as a protest against Israeli […]
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French cinema chain cancels Israeli film, replaces with one on Rachel Corrie
The news website France-Info reported late on 4 June that a French cinema chain decided to cancel screenings of an Israeli film, Leon Prudovsky’s Five Hours From Paris to protest Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on 31 May which killed at least 9 and injured dozens of humanitarian activists attempting to break the […]
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Opération Boycott, Dijon 29/05/2010
Dijon 29/05/2010 rue de la liberté opération “Boycott”
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Sephora taken to court over products from Israeli brand Ahava
By Katie Bird , 28-May-2010 LVMH-owned Sephora has been taken to court by the Palestinian rights organisation CAPJPO-EuroPalestine over the sale of cosmetics brand Ahava, according to press reports. The beauty retailer stocks the Ahava range, which according to the association is produced in territories in the West Bank illegally occupied by Israel. CAPJPO-EuroPalestine claims […]
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict brings Sephora to court
A new stage in the global campaign supported by pro-Palestinian and human right associations to boycott Israeli products is bringing Sephora to court in France. The association CAPJPO EuroPalestine is suing the beauty chain retailer because of its business relationship with Ahava products. According to the association, Ahava products, which are manufactured in the kibbutz […]
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French say NO to Israel at OECD HQ today
Israí«l criminel – OCDE complice ? Alors que les délégations des pays membres de l”OCDE se réunissaient pour décider de l”adhésion de l”Etat d”Israí«l, des militants solidaires avec le peuple palestinien, dont des membres de la Coordination interfacs Palestine, de Génération Palestine, de l”Union juive franí§aise pour la paix, d”Europalestine, de Américains contre la guerre, […]
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Anti-Zionism versus pro-Palestinianism in France.
From Paris, with love By YONITH BENHAMOU AND ANTOINE CHELTIEL Jacques Attali, French economist, prolific writer, high-ranking civil official and adviser to president Franí§ois Mitterrand, dared to declare to Haaretz in October that anti-Semitism in France was a “nonexistent problem,” “a lie… not a problem at the national level… propaganda, Israeli propaganda.” With all due […]
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