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Recalling the anti-apartheid spirit
The Palestinians and those who support them must take lessons from the successful international anti-apartheid movement, writes Ayman El-Amir* Israel has worked hard to defeat the purpose of the Freedom Flotilla that sought to break the four-year-old Israeli stranglehold on 1.5 million suffering Palestinians in Gaza. Despite international public outrage, Israeli policy, endorsed by the […]
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A boycott of Israeli goods is now necessary
They were not, as Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barack ludicrously tried to claim, “an armada of hate and violence”. Nor was the Mavi Marmara “a boat of hate”, as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Turkish ship, trying to justify his commandos gunning down nine civilians on board as they stormed the boat in […]
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World Cup Campaign: End Apartheid of Israel in Palestine
Ending Israeli Apartheid in Palestine is world”s responsibility With the world focused on the 2010 world cup in symbolic South Africa the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) is calling on the world community to remember the ongoing struggle against apartheid and siege in Palestine. The world is invited to openly support Palestinians against the racist apartheid […]
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The Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement
Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss June 9, 2010 | This article appeared in the June 28, 2010 edition of The Nation. In April the student senate at the University of California, Berkeley, twice held all-night sessions to debate a proposal urging the school to divest from two US military companies “materially and militarily profiting” from […]
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Around the world, surge of BDS in response to Gaza Flotilla massacre (and how you can get involved)
Just a few weeks back, we reported on a renewed wave of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) activity against Israeli apartheid and occupation. That was before the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre. Now, as calls for governments around the globe to hold the Israeli military accountable for the killing of 8 Turkish citizens and one U.S.-Turkish […]
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Israel about to criminalize BDS
June 9th, 2010 | by Sydney Levy What is Israel”s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course! We just learned new bill has been introduced in the Israeli Knesset by 25 Knesset members, that would criminalize all BDS activities or even BDS advocacy inside or outside […]
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Supporting Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
Alice Walker 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner Posted: June 7, 2010 09:55 PM “You will have no protection.” – Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi, shortly before he was assassinated on June 12, 1963. My heart is breaking; but I do not mind. For one thing, as soon as I wrote those […]
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Gaza aid flotilla: Henning Mankell calls for sanctions on Israel
Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell, who travelled in the Gaza aid flotilla, has urged global sanctions on Israel after the deadly strike on the convoy. Mankell said sanctions against Israel would put pressure on the country to lift the naval blockade on Gaza just as sanctions against South Africa had contributed to the dismantling of […]
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Israel’s Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS
Occupied Palestine, 08 June 2010 — In light of Israel”s massacre of humanitarian relief workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May 2010 and its insistence to continue its illegal siege on Gaza, pressuring Israel to comply with its obligations under international law has become of undeniable urgency. Drunk with power and impunity, […]
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BDS in the USA, 2001-2010
Noura Erakat Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. On April 26, 2010, the student senate at the University of California-Berkeley upheld, by one vote, an executive veto on SB 118–the student body resolution endorsing divestment of university funds from General Electric and United […]
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