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Civil society denounces Israel across Turkey
Civil society organizations across Turkey have denounced Israel in the strongest possible terms with protests and statements following the killings of at least nine defenseless peace activists at the hands of Israeli naval commandos on an aid flotilla in international waters. Many of the organizations called on the international community to ask Israel to account […]
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Protestors demand India should cut off ties with Israel
By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net Mumbai: “India should cut off all its relations, diplomatic or otherwise, with Israel and a case must be registered against it in the International court of justice,” said Aslam Gazi, Spokeperson, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, during a Protest near Churchgate Railway station in South Mumbai on Thursday. The protest was jointly organized by […]
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Hent hjem ambassadí¸ren i Israel
LO krever handling etter at israelske soldater bordet en konvoi med hjelpeutstyr til Gaza, og drepte ni aktivister. De ber regjeringen hente hjem Norges ambassadí¸r til Israel. LO-sekretariatets uttalelse fra mandag ble pí¥ initiativ fra Fagforbundet skjerpet under representantskapsmí¸tet pí¥ Gardermoen tirsdag. De krever at den norske ambassadí¸ren til Israel hentes hjem, og at oljefondet […]
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Norway calls for boycott on arms to Israel
OSLO (AFP) – A Norwegian minister and leader of a political party calls for an international boycott of arms trade with Israel following a deadly raid by Israeli commandoes on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. “¢ Swedish pension fund shuns Israeli arms maker “¢ Four Swedes in Israeli prison after Gaza ship raid “Everyone should follow […]
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Turkey’s parliament wants review of Israeli ties
Wed, 06/02/2010 – 10:33am | The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s parliament called on the government Wednesday to review all ties with Israel as the country prepared a huge welcome home for hundreds of Turks detained after Israel’s bloody raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. In Israel, all of the nearly 700 activists […]
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Ambassador í‡elikkol back in Ankara for “˜consultations’
Turkey’s outgoing Ambassador to Israel O?uz í‡elikkol arrived in the Turkish capital on Thursday for “consultations,” as Israel’s lethal seizure of a Gaza-bound aid convoy including a Turkish-flagged ship brought the already strained relationship between the Jewish state and Turkey close to the breaking point. í‡elikkol would have been “withdrawn,” instead of simply being recalled […]
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BDS-Related Responses to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre of 31 May 2010
Only a few days since Israel’s illegal and fatal act of aggression against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla,, BDS-related reactions around the world were quick and qualitatively consequential. Building on 5 years of international BDS activism since the Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS was launched on 9 July 2005, a year and a half since […]
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In Response to Israel’s Assault on the Freedom Flotilla: BNC Calls for Action
Posted by RORCoalition on Thu, 06/03/2010 – 08:49 BNC, 1 June 2010 – Palestinian civil society calls for intensifying boycott and sanctions as Israel massacres humanitarian relief workers and international solidarity activists Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) strongly condemns last night”s fatal attack by the […]
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The urgency of this moment
Radhika Sainath, The Electronic Intifada, 3 June 2010 When evidence emerged that a North Korean torpedo sank a South Korean warship in disputed waters two months ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the attack. Clinton demanded that Pyongyang “stop its provocative behavior, halt its policy of threats of belligerence towards its neighbors, and […]
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Get on the boat
Toufic Haddad, a Palestinian-American writer and researcher based in Jerusalem and author of Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. “War on Terror”, calls for a renewed commitment to the struggle to stop Israel’s war on the Palestinians. June 1, 2010 AS I write these lines, BBC Arabic language radio is reporting that […]
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