• An Interview with Haider Eid

    Posted on March 13, 2009

    March 13 / 15, 2009 Massacre in Slow Motion By ERIC RUDER More than a month after Israel’s assault on Gaza ended, life for Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians continues to be a daily struggle. Israel maintains a suffocating siege that blocks the flow of basic staples, plunging the vast majority of residents into abject poverty. […]

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  • Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind

    Posted on March 13, 2009

    March 13, 2009 By Dr. Haidar Eid One of the most important outcomes of the Gaza massacre (2009) has been the unprecedented tremendous outpouring of popular support for the Palestinian cause; something the signatories of the Oslo accords (1993) must have not been happy with. The return of the pre-Oslo slogans of liberation, as opposed […]

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  • Rahim Barghouti On Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

    Posted on March 13, 2009

    NEW YORK — March 7, 2009. (Part 1) Rahim Barghouti, an organizer with Adalah NY, talks about organizing “BDS” in an effort to bring about an end to Israeli style Apartheid. She compares South African Apartheid with Israeli foreign and domestic policies and discusses how the BDS campaign is progressing. Barghouti was speaking at a […]

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  • Manchester protests against Israeli Science Day

    Posted on March 12, 2009

    ‘It was a load of bull. I came because I thought we would learn about biology. But we just got a lecture. It was Israeli propaganda that’s all’, explained Northenden College student Osman who attended Israeli Science Day at Manchester’s Science Museum last week. A group of students sent to the event from Manchester College […]

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  • PNI Marks Israeli Apartheid Week: Urges international community to embrace the Global Campaign of BDS

    Posted on March 9, 2009

    Palestinian National Initiative 9 March 2009 The Palestinian National Initiative, PNI, has been on the local forefront of encouraging boycott, divestment and sanctions against the state of Israel in response to the ongoing occupation since the unified call was raised by Palestinians on July 9th, 2007. The Palestinian National Initiative, PNI, has been on the […]

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  • Israelis Are Beginning to See the Power of BDS

    Posted on March 5, 2009

    Written by Shir Hever, Alternative Information Center (AIC) Sunday, 01 March 2009 In recent years, there has been a gradual growth in the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, calling to put economic pressure on Israel until it recognizes the rights of the occupied Palestinian people and puts an end the occupation of the West […]

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  • Sustaining global solidarity after Gaza

    Posted on March 4, 2009

    Jamal Juma’, The Electronic Intifada, 3 March 2009 The Israeli invasion of Gaza, which has now claimed more than 1,400 lives, generated serious popular backlash the world over. The overwhelmingly weak official positions and statements, especially in the Arab world, stood in stark contrast to the outpouring of rage that was witnessed in the streets […]

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  • Prominent South African calls for sanctions against Israel

    Posted on February 27, 2009

    Ronnie Kasrils fought for decades against apartheid in his South African homeland, and with victory served in the governments of Nelson Mandela, and later Thabo Mbeki. On March 20, he will be speaking at the University of Strathclyde (6:00 p.m., P5.14, Graham Hills Building) on the need for a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against […]

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