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Open Letter to the International Society for Iranian Studies
UPDATED 25.2.10 To our academic endorsers: Please read the letter below in relation to the inclusion of an Israeli colonist participating in the upcoming International Society for Iranian Studies Conference in Santa Monica, California. Faculty members who wish to sign onto the letter, should send their names and institutional affiliations to NoArielU@gmail.com. Please be sure […]
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Why Do I Boycott Israel?
A new comic by Ethan Heitner illustrates the plethora or reasons for engaging in boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israeli occupation and apartheid:
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Behind Brand Israel: Israel’s recent propaganda efforts
Ben White, The Electronic Intifada, 23 February 2010 “The Delegitimization Challenge” report from the influential Israeli think tank the Reut Institute has put the spotlight on efforts by Israel and the Zionist lobby to counter the growing movement for justice in Palestine, and specifically, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The work done by […]
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Boycott Israeli Goods by Carlos Latuff
WHY BOYCOTT ISRAEL? The Palestinian people are experiencing their 42nd year of military occupation. The siege by the Israeli army and the economic blockade have devastated their daily lives so that ‘normal’ life is impossible. Israel operates an entrenched system of racial Apartheid against its own non-Jewish inhabitants and has been illegally occupying Palestinian land […]
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Vancouver 2010: The IOC, Israel, Canada, and Apartheid
by Kim Petersen / February 19th, 2010 The Winter Olympics is taking place in the unceded territory of the Skwxwú7mesh, Xwméthkwyiem and Tsleil-Waututh peoples – what has been colonially designated Vancouver – and the unceded territory of the St”at”imc people – Whistler. Israel has sent an ice dancing pair to the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Of […]
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Attention Geographers! We cannot be neutral on a moving train!
Open Letter to the International Geographical Union (IGU) Click this link and go to the bottom of the page to sign on to this petition! As geographers, faculty, students, and people of conscience, we are profoundly dismayed by IGU”s decision to hold its July 2010 regional conference in Tel Aviv, in violation of the widely […]
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Israel’s new strategy: “sabotage” and “attack” the global justice movement
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2010 An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel’s influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an “existential threat” to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to “attack” and possibly engage in criminal “sabotage” […]
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Nora Barrows-Friedman interview with Dalit Baum of Who Profits?
Listen to Flashpoints’ Nora Barrows-Friedman’s interview with Dalit Baum of Who Profits? on investigating corporations that continue to finance the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. Download MP3 file here.
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Is Israel Arresting Prominent Boycott Leaders?
By Benjamin Joffe-Walt, The Media Line, 8 October 2009 Palestinians claim detainee is the first political prisoner arrested solely for promoting a boycott of Israel. Israel has extended the detention of a West Bank campaigner said by activist groups to be the first Palestinian to be imprisoned solely for advocacy of international boycotts against Israel. […]
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Now is Time for the Rebirth of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions Campaign
Now is a very opportune moment to join and support the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign and support Palestinians who are a defenceless people on the receiving end of a belligerent force that has lost moral direction, and certainly too its political compass. The BDS Campaign is a moral action to pressure Israel to comply […]
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