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Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tourism conference in Jerusalem
18 September 2010 Your Excellency Angel Gurría SecretaryGeneral of OECD Cc:OECD Member States The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a broad coalition of the largest civil society political parties, mass organizations, networks,and trade unions, strongly condemns the decision by OECD to hold its annual Tourism Committee Conference in October in Jerusalem-the first […]
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By Colonial Design
Ann Laura Stoler | 10 September As someone who has worked for some thirty years as a teacher and student of colonial studies– on comparative colonial situations, colonial histories, and the violent and subtle forms of governance on which colonial regimes rely, it would be difficult not to describe the Israeli state as a colonial […]
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Academic research collaboration emboldens Israeli apartheid
Diane Shammas, The Electronic Intifada, 14 September 2010 In July, Donna Shalala, the president of the University of Miami and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration, joined a 13-member delegation of American university presidents to Israel. The delegation’s main objective was to discuss opportunities for academic collaboration with […]
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The Thin Green Line: It’s Not Just the Settlements (or the Occupation), Stupid!
Because Silence is Complicity! By Nima Shirazi* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived…We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or […]
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A conference in the service of colonialism and de-development: the case of the Rehovot conference on “˜inclusive and sustainable development’
PACBI | 13 September 2010 Occupied Ramallah – September 13, 2010 The Weitz Centre for Development Studies, which was founded by the Jewish Agency and enjoys a long-standing relationship with the Centre for International Cooperation of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MASHAV), is organising an international conference on ‘inclusive and sustainable development” in December […]
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The Silence of the Israeli Intelligentsia
Weekend Edition September 10 – 12, 2010 The Military and the Academy By LISA TARAKI The ongoing buzz in the Israeli media around statements issued by artists and academics against lecturing or performing in the colony of Ariel – built on occupied Palestinian land – betrays a stark contradiction in the positions of the Israeli […]
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Refusing to Normalize a Cruel Occupation: A PACBI Open Letter to American and British Artists Supporting the Cultural Boycott of Israeli Colonies
PACBI | 9 September 2010 Occupied Ramallah, 9 September 2010 — The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) warmly salutes the tens of American and British theater, film and TV artists for their recently published statement [1] supporting the spreading cultural boycott of Ariel and the rest of Israel’s colonial […]
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American led show a Middle East no go
Antony Loewenstein The resumption of self-described peace talks between Israel, Washington and the Palestinian Authority produced headlines across the world last week. The public was told that each side was pessimistic about the prospects of finally sealing a deal after decades of stop-start negotiations. The stated goal was a two-state solution, the supposed ideal of […]
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Anna Baltzer: An Up-close Look At The Israeli Occupation Of Palestine
Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 09:56 AM GMT+4 Contributed by: Christian Avard A visit to the occupied territories of Palestine can change one’s perspectives forever. Such was the case of Anna Baltzer. Baltzer is a Jewish-American granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. In 2005, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in Ankara, Turkey and […]
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