• INDIAN CALL FOR THE ACADEMIC & CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

    Posted on July 22, 2010

    IcACBI | July 2010 Both the academia and the arts are profoundly rooted in the values of democracy, equality and justice, and the pursuit of excellence in both these fields has meaning only if it is imbued with conscience. As Indian academics, intellectuals and artists in the decolonised world, we have historically played a crucial […]

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  • India chapter formed to campaign against Israel

    Posted on July 12, 2010

    Special Correspondent, The Hindu 12 July 2010 NEW DELHI: The India chapter of the international movement to campaign for academic and cultural boycott of Israel has been formed by a group of intellectuals. “Just as it was in the case of the international call against South Africa in the apartheid years, we are confident that […]

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  • Cochin Port Union Boycotts Israeli Ships and Cargo

    Posted on July 8, 2010

    THE trade unions in Cochin Port have reached an understanding amongst themselves to boycott Israeli ships and cargo arriving at Cochin Port in protest against the siege of Gaza by Israeli forces. The boycott began on June 17 on receipt of information that cargo unloaded at Colombo Port from Israeli ship m/v Zim Livorno 16 […]

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  • Asian left: `Lift the siege on Gaza! Support boycott, divestment and sanctions on apartheid Israel’

    Posted on June 25, 2010

    Statement by Asian left organisations [To add your organisation”s endorsement, please email: international[at]socialist-alliance.org.] June 25, 2010 — As Israel stands increasingly isolated following its manufactured confrontation on May 31, 2010, with the peace flotilla in which nine Turkish activists on the Mavi Marmara were murdered, now is the time to increase the pressure on Israel […]

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  • Protestors demand India should cut off ties with Israel

    Posted on June 4, 2010

    By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: “India should cut off all its relations, diplomatic or otherwise, with Israel and a case must be registered against it in the International court of justice,” said Aslam Gazi, Spokeperson, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, during a Protest near Churchgate Railway station in South Mumbai on Thursday. The protest was jointly organized by […]

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