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OLMV – Jess Ghannam & Nada Elia talk BDS with hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman
One Land, Many voices – Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Jess Ghannam join hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman for an extended discussion of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions Movement. One Land, Many Voices, March 26th, 2010, 9:00AM-10:00AM: KBOO Community Radio Click here to listen to the show: > > >One Land, Many Voices – September 24, 2010 […]
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BDS Campaign – Boycott Israel Movement Grows
By Eric Walberg 9-21-10 The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign moves ahead in Washington, California, British Columbia, Harvard and Brown Universities, and the Netherlands, notes Eric Walberg In July, in Rachel Corrie’s hometown of Olympia, Washington state, the popular Food Co-op announced that no Israeli products would be sold at its two grocery stores. Archbishop […]
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UMass Boston Faculty Call on TIAA-CREF to Divest from Israeli Occupation
September 20, 2010 – Faculty and staff at the University of Massachusetts Boston asked the non-profit investment firm TIAA-CREF to divest its holdings from companies that do business with the Israeli Occupation at the company CEO”s public address on campus last Monday. Faculty presented TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson with a letter requesting that the firm […]
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Israeli Beauty Products Company Ahava Complicit in the Sins of Occupation
By Alex Kane, AlterNet Posted on September 18, 2010, Printed on September 20, 2010 Walk into any Ricky’s store, a beauty shop chain in New York, and you will find a shelf filled with Ahava products. For $28, you can buy mineral toning cleanser; for $22, Dead Sea liquid salt; and for $9, purifying mud […]
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CARE Board Member Takes Leave of Absence over Employer’s Support for Israeli Settlements
For Immediate Release September 7, New York, NY – A member of the board of directors of the leading international humanitarian aid organization CARE USA has taken a voluntary leave of absence from CARE”s board due to the involvement of his employer, Africa Israel, in Israeli settlement activities. The move last week came after a […]
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Press Release: USACBI Announces Over 500 Academics Have Endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) http://usacbi.wordpress.com/ Over 500 academics have endorsed USACBI! “We have to be careful not to over-exaggerate on this, but we also have to be careful not to ignore it,” said Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University and co-founder of the International […]
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Open Letter to Filmmaker Stephen Frears
DON”T NORMALIZE APARTHEID, WITHDRAW FROM HAIFA 2010 September 18th, 2010 Dear Stephen Frears: As fellow artists who have been critical of the state of Israel”s treatment of the Palestinian people, we were surprised to learn that your film “Tamara Drew” is scheduled to open the Haifa International Film Festival of 2010 (HIFF). While unable to […]
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Why we are boycotting the Batsheva Dance Company
by Adam Horowitz on September 17, 2010 The following is an open letter to the Batsheva Dance Company from two groups organizing a boycott of its upcoming shows in New York City: Dear Batsheva Dance Company, We are a group of New York-based human rights activists and artists calling for a boycott of your performances […]
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Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op debates Palestine politics
No matzo, no peace By Lien Hoang This article was published on 09.16.10. Matzo and bath salts are stirring up controversy over at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, where a fraction of its 12,000 owner-members is moving to boycott products that come from Israel. The boycott is being pushed by the Sacramento Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions […]
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Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign
Posted by Linda Milazzo at 1:35 am September 10, 2010 On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel […]
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