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VUVUZELA
It’s the Penguins vs. the Ostriches in this Boycott Israel summer match — a showdown between artists like Elvis Costello and the Pixies who cancelled their Israel concerts in respect of the boycott, vs. Metallica, Rihanna and Elton John who are going forward with theirs, despite growing criticism.
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New Video: US Social Forum concludes with call for BDS, recognizing Zionism as racism
“We call on all organization and social movements to boycott, divest and sanction the Israeli apartheid state and the institutions the support it.” “We affirm that Zionism is a form of racism that denies Palestinians the right to self-determination.” – US Social Forum National People”s Movement Assembly 2010 The US Social Forum concluded on June […]
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Barriers and the Boycott
July 2010 By Fay Ferguson Syria was finally granted observer status in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in May, nine years after it first attempted to join. The door to the global trade body opened after the US and Israel dropped their long-held vetoes against the country’s bid. As Syria gears up for perhaps a […]
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Beyond hypocrisy
By Mark LeVine Almost two millennia ago, the great Chinese military leader and strategist Zhuge Liang admonished his fellow military men that “when hypocrisy sprouts, even if you have the wisdom of ancient warrior kings you could not defeat a peasant, let alone a crowd of them”. He might have well added that hypocrisy is […]
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The deceptive rhetoric of “Invest for Peace”
Charlotte Silver, The Electronic Intifada, 6 July 2010 The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is gaining significant momentum cross the United States and Europe, including at US campuses. In response, opposition to the movement is devising new ways to divert attention from efforts to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law and […]
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SAPIENZA MASTER’S FOR ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS: OPPRESSION NORMALIZED
PSCABI UTAP Besieged Gaza, Palestine 06. July.2010 PRESS RELEASE Over and over again, champions of the boycott movement have condemned cooperation with apartheid Israel in acts of normalization. We, the Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and the University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, have adamantly and insistently written to artists, musicians, writers […]
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Time to Muzzle Israel
By Gulamhusein A. Abba The bloody and dastardly attack, by Israeli forces, in international waters, under cover of darkness, on a peaceful and unarmed flotilla, carrying nothing but humanitarian aid to a besieged people experiencing a humanitarian crisis, was strongly denounced by people and governments from all over the world. Deservedly so. Israel, instead of […]
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Israel: A Failing Colonial Project
by M. Shahid Alam Increasingly, despite its early military and political successes, Israel cannot for long endure as a colonial project. It must choose between wars – and destruction – or transition to a state for all its peoples. In order to firmly secure its existence – as firmly as that is possible for any […]
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Brand Israel: I Hear the Congo Has Some Lovely Views
Israel”s (fishy) acceptance into the OECD isn”t really a surprise, when you look into this Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: It defines itself as a forum of countries committed to democracy and the market economy… [Wikipedia] “Democracy” and “market economy” (aka “capitalism”) have long been Israel”s reiterated mantras, in an attempt to cosy up […]
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Gaza Freedom Graffiti in the Warsaw Ghetto
Monday 28th 2010 Yesterday, Israeli and Polish activists met in the ruins of Warsaw”s old Jewish Ghetto. The activists sprayed “Liberate All Ghettos” in Hebrew, followed by “Free Gaza and Palestine” in English on a wall of an original block in the ghetto. The block is across the street from the last fragment of the […]
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