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EU-Israel talks skirt around Jerusalem police headquarters
David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 1 July 2010 BRUSSELS (IPS) – Talks aimed at reaching an intelligence-sharing agreement between the European Union and Israel have skirted around the location of Israel’s national police headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. In 2005, the EU decided that Europol, its law enforcement office, should negotiate a formal cooperation agreement […]
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Counter the Complicity of Israel’s Medical Establishment: Boycott the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine
Occupied Ramallah, 30 June 2010 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) urges international medical professionals to boycott the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine, scheduled for 19-22 October 2010 in Jerusalem. The conference, which is sponsored by virtually all of the major medical centers in Israel, in addition to […]
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ISRAELI APARTHEID: SUSTAINED INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS NEEDED
Vinod Mubayi A sustained world-wide campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions aimed at Israel is needed, just as it was in apartheid South Africa, to end the many decades long oppression of Palestinians by the State of Israel. [Also see article by Pervez Hoodbhoy in this issue] Israel”s helicopter raid in international waters on the […]
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:: BDS CONFERENCE ORGANIZING MEETING, AND INFO-SESSION! ::
=><= Dear friends and allies, On October 15 to 17, 2010, a historic conference will take place in Montreal which aims to consolidate and move forward the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. In 2005, over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, from trade unions to women”s groups to refugee organizations, issued […]
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Turning Points: Israel Caves Under Flotilla Pressure
Posted: June 22, 2010 11:43 PM Phyllis Bennis Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies Turning points occur in every campaign for human rights and equality. There are moments when, before victory is certain, and whether or not the effect is immediately felt on the ground, the discourse, the assumptions, the terms of reference — not so […]
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Palestinian Queers for BDS Call upon all Queer groups, organizations and individuals around the world to Boycott the Apartheid State of Israel.
Palestinian Queers for BDS Call upon all Queer groups, organizations and individuals around the world to Boycott the Apartheid State of Israel By Palestinian Queers for BDS June 27th 2010 As Palestinian Queers, we see the Queer movements as political in their nature; and ones that analyze the intersections between different struggles, evaluate relations of […]
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Jesse Rosenfeld: The Palestinian struggle, BDS and Canadian aid
By rabbleTV | June 25, 2010 June 21, 2010 at the Beit Zatoun House, Toronto While the three-year-old siege of Gaza has been brought into dramatic focus of late, the 12-year embargo of Iraq that crippled the economy and wrought havoc on civil society continues in another form, post-invasion. At the same time, the ongoing […]
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Israel’s ‘unspoken alliance’
By Laila El-Haddad Sasha Polakow-Suransky, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs, poured through 7,000 pages of never-before-seen classified South African documents while researching his book, Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa. In it, he relays the minutes and details of conversations between top level officials on both sides that shed light on the extent […]
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Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite
Campaign to clear supermarket shelves of West Bank settlement wares forces Israeli factories to cut production Harriet Sherwood in Ramallah guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 June 2010 11.08 BST Israeli factories based in settlements on the West Bank have been forced to cut back production as a growing Palestinian boycott movement begins to take effect. The boycott, […]
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To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
Terry Crawford-Browne, The Electronic Intifada, 30 June 2010 The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country’s apartheid system. The campaign culminated in President FW de Klerk’s announcement in February 1990, releasing Nelson […]
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