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Israel steps up arrests of grassroots activists
Press release, Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 20 January 2010 The following press release was issued by Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation on 19 January 2010: Israel must end […]
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Open Letter to Santana: Don’t Entertain Israeli Apartheid!
Occupied Ramallah, 19 January 2010 Dear Santana, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was deeply disturbed to learn that that you are scheduled to perform in Israel this coming summer. We call upon you, as a prominent and influential artist, and, more importantly, as a well-known activist on issues […]
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Victory! Release of Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman demonstrates importance of international grassroots pressure
You have probably heard by now that Jamal Juma’ and Mohammad Othman, leaders of the Palestinian grassroots struggle against Israeli occupation and apartheid and proponents of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), have been released from their imprisonment-without-charge in Israeli jail. Their freedom is a huge victory for the grassroots struggle for Palestinian self-determination and equality. […]
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Open Letter to Bono: Entertaining Apartheid Israel…U 2 Bono?
Occupied Ramallah, 13 January 2010 Dear Bono, The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was deeply disturbed to learn that that you are scheduled to perform in Israel this coming summer. Two years ago, you were invited by Israeli President Shimon Peres to attend a conference in Israel marking Israel”s […]
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Winning the war for local produce in the West Bank
Rachel Shabi RAMALLAH // The cries of Hussam, the market-vendor, to buy his juicy winter “strawberries, strawberries” ring clear across the bustling street market in Ramallah. But this 25-year-old stall-keeper takes no pride in his trade. “They are from Israel,” he said, casting a gloomy eye over the gleaming pile of fruit. “Of course I […]
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Palestinian artists call for boycott of Israeli settlement goods
Nablus – Ma’an – The Union of Artists in Nablus called on Palestinians to boycott all goods manufactured and produced on Israeli settlements on Saturday, in response to caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s call to action against settlement goods in the West Bank last week. The artists’ union suggested the establishment of a national boycott […]
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2009 BDS Highlights
PACBI Newsletter #1 The Year 2009 has proved to be a watershed in the growth of the global BDS movement. The massive lethal Israeli war of aggression on the Gaza Strip in late December 2008 and January 2009 galvanized many organized groups and individuals around the world to call for BDS actions as a means […]
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Jerusalem Diary: Choir caught in disharmony
By Tim Franks BBC News, Jerusalem CHOIR FEELING FLAT OVER BOYCOTT ROW It should be a time of unalloyed joy for Tim Brown. The director of one of Britain’s most well-regarded choirs is beginning a six-concert tour of Israel this week. The choir of Clare College, Cambridge, will be singing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the […]
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Palestinian Christians urge boycott
Condemning the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Christian leaders call on their brethren worldwide to rise up in action Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organisations, have launched a “landmark campaign” aimed at enlisting Christians worldwide in proactive efforts to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, reports Khaled Amayreh in Bethlehem. The unprecedented initiative, […]
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