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When Will It Be Our Time?
By MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI Published: December 16, 2009 RAMALLAH, WEST BANK – I have lived my entire adult life under occupation, with Israelis holding ultimate control over my movement and daily life. When young Israeli police officers force me to sit on the cold ground and soldiers beat me during a peaceful protest, I smolder. No […]
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Presentation to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON THE EXERCISE OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Trusteeship Council Chamber United Nations New York, New York November 30, 2009 Remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. BlackCommentator.com & U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Mr. Chairman, Mr. Secretary-General, Mr. […]
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News from Within Podcast: Academic Boycott of Israel
The idea of an academic boycott of Israel emerged in 2002 and has since gained momentum worldwide, particularly in the aftermath of the December 2008 and January 2009 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Academic Boycott of Israel and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in Occupation of Palestinian Territories In his Economy of the […]
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Report: Israeli academic institutions’ role in the occupation
Report, The Alternative Information Center, 14 December 2009 The idea of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as means of struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories has gathered pace in the years following the second intifada, and all the more so since the Israeli siege and attacks on the Gaza Strip. As academics and […]
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*BNC Welcomes the */*Kairos*/* Document of Leading Christian Palestinians
“A moment of truth–A word of faith from the heart of Palestinian suffering”* Occupied Palestine: 11 December 2009 Today, prominent Christian Palestinian leaders are releasing a historical /Kairos/ document, calling on Churches around the world “to say a word of truth and to take a position of truth with regard to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian […]
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Palestinian Authority Working to Implement boycott of Israeli settlement goods
AP, RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian government announced Tuesday that it is enforcing a boycott of goods made in Israel’s West Bank settlements and has confiscated more than $1 million in merchandise from shops and companies. Israeli products, including those made in settlements, are commonplace in the West Bank, either for lack of a […]
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HRW: Detained BDS campaigner Mohammad Othman “˜is being punished for his peaceful advocacy’
From the Human Rights Watch statement “Israel: End Arbitrary Detention of Rights Activist”: Israeli authorities have detained Othman without charge for more than two months on what appear to be politically motivated grounds. On the basis of secret evidence that Othman and his lawyers were not allowed to see, a military court confirmed a military […]
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A Statement* by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) and the Palestinian Trade Union Blocs and Frameworks
25 November 2009 Based on the national and trade union position, which PGFTU has always been a part of, representing the unified national and trade union framework for all Palestinian trade union and labor blocs and frameworks, PGFTU with all its organizations, branches and member trade unions stresses its advanced historic and national role in […]
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BNC Warmly Welcomes PGFTU’s Statement Confirming Unambiguous Endorsement of BDS
[Press Release: 1 December 2009] The Palestinian BDS National Committee, BNC, warmly welcomes the statement issued on 25 November 2009 by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) — signed by its Secretary General, Mr. Shaher Sa’ad, and its Executive Committee, and endorsed by all the main Palestinian trade union blocs that are represented […]
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Omar Barghouti on boycott of Israel- BDS movement
Founder of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions for Palestine Campaign Omar Barghouti, talks about how the movement has progressed, its achievements and future goals.
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