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Palestinians boycott settlers
A comprehensive, cross-factional boycott of Jewish settlement products and produce has been launched across the West Bank, writes Khaled Amayreh There are as many as half a million Jewish settlers enjoying constant army protection in the West Bank. The vast majority of these are indoctrinated in an extreme right-wing ideology that views non-Jews living in […]
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BDS Is Vital For Palestine’s Freedom
2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Mustafa Barghouthi, tells PSC that an international campaign of boycott, sanctions and divestment on Israel is vital if Palestine is ever to be free of occupation. Dr Barghouthi, who heads the Palestinian National Initiative, also describes how the movement of non-violent resistance in the West Bank is challenging Israel”s occupation. […]
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Fayyad hands out settlement boycott leaflets
PA to continue boycott until ‘our homes are empty of settlement goods,’ Palestinian PM says Ali Waked and Reuters Published: 05.27.10, 18:39 / Israel News The Palestinians will continue to adhere to the anti-settlement boycott until their homes “will be empty of settlement goods,” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Thursday. The PM passed out […]
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Palestinian Boycott National Committee Statement on Repression in Canada
Boycott National Committee (BNC) Secretariat | 26 May 2010 Palestinian civil society condemns repression in Canada against Palestine solidarity campaigns and humanitarian efforts Occupied Palestine, May 26 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), strongly condemns the actions taken by Canadian state bodies, university administrations and pressure groups to defund, repress […]
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Boycott gives Israel a taste of its own medicine
The Palestinian boycott of Jewish settlement goods outrages Israel but is nothing compared with Israel’s undeclared embargo o Rachel Shabi o guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 May 2010 10.00 BST Things are heating up with the Palestinian boycott of Jewish settlement products. The Palestinian Authority has recently passed a law prohibiting the sale of such goods, with […]
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The PA’s disingenuous boycott campaign
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 25 May 2010 In recent weeks, the US- and Israeli-backed Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has made a show of calling on Palestinians to boycott goods manufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Despite the rhetoric of defiance and resistance, and exaggerated screams of anguish from Israeli settler groups, the […]
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PA, PLO slam Israeli stance on boycott
Published today (updated) 25/05/2010 11:45 Bethlehem – Ma’an – President Mahmoud Abbas continued to insist on the necessity of boycotting Israeli settlement products, in the face of ballooning Israeli criticism, highlighting again on Monday the parameters of the movement. The statement followed the publication of accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alleging the boycott […]
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Netanyahu: Boycott only harming PA
Published today (updated) 24/05/2010 19:55 Jerusalem – Ma’an/Agencies – The Palestinians are opposing economic peace with Israel and are “taking steps that in the end hurt themselves,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Likud party members on Monday. “Israel is aiming for peace and economic prosperity,” Netanyahu said, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote. “The Palestinians […]
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Palestinians boycott Israeli settler goods
AlJazeeraEnglish – May 23, 2010 – Millions of dollars of Palestinan money helps Israeli businesses thrive in the West Bank, but now the Palestinan Authority is boycotting goods made by settlers. At least 3,000 Palestinian grassroots volunteers are leading the boycott campaign. Knocking door-to-door, they provide households with the information they need to help get […]
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Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, May 20, 2010 (IPS) – Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank. “This is economic terrorism,” complained the Yesha Council (YC), an umbrella organisation of municipal […]
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