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Evergreen State students overwhelmingly pass divestment votes
Press release, TESC Divest, 8 June 2010 The following release was issued on 2 June 2010 by TESC Divest: On 2 June 2010, students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, made history by passing two resolutions supporting human rights, upholding international law, and promoting a just peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict. 1. The […]
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Israel about to criminalize BDS
June 9th, 2010 | by Sydney Levy What is Israel”s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course! We just learned new bill has been introduced in the Israeli Knesset by 25 Knesset members, that would criminalize all BDS activities or even BDS advocacy inside or outside […]
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Boycott Apartheid, Don’t Play Israel Facebook Groups
Active Boycott Groups Diana Krall – please don’t break the Palestinian call to Boycott Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123536954352660&ref=ts Ozzy Osbourne : Please don’t play apartheid Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114491948592907&ref=ts BOB DYLAN BOYCOTT ISRAEL http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116628888365109&ref=ts Elvis Costello: Respect the Palestinian call to boycott Israel http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117120338312055&ref=ts (Success – not playing) Joan Armatrading: Please Don’t Go to Israel! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116625421691276&ref=ts (Joan played and […]
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Artists’ Boycott Strikes a Dissonant Note Inside Israel
By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: June 9, 2010 JERUSALEM – The announcement by the Pixies, an American alternative rock band, that they would cancel their long-awaited concert in Israel this week amid international outrage over Israel”s deadly raid on a Turkish activists” ship bound for Gaza, had an impact far beyond the 15,000 disappointed fans. The […]
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Inaccurate Labelling Of Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetics
May 6, 2010 Neil Gunn Intervention from the European Court of Justice and UK parliamentary debate have highlighted the misuse of the “Made in Israel” label on some products. A recent demonstration, (8/3/10) against the Israeli food producer Agrexco, in the French Mediterranean port of Sete has once again raised the thorny subject of the […]
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Ann Arbor City Council is hit with Boycott-Israel Resolution:
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 At their June 7, 2010 public meeting… Ann Arbor City Council members refused to vote on this resolution to boycott all products from Israel. This was just 1 week after Israel shot its way onto a humanitarian aid ship, killing 9 passengers. The proposed boycott resolution is 8 words long: “Ann […]
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Boycott Placebo: Activists
Jun 8, 2010 BEIRUT – LEBANESE activists called on Tuesday for a boycott of British rock band Placebo on the eve of its Lebanon gig for performing in Israel in the wake of the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. ‘You are not welcome in Lebanon,’ Lebanese writer and editor Samah Idriss said at […]
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Activists call on public to boycott Israeli goods
FIONA GARTLAND FIVE IRISH citizens who were deported from Israel yesterday morning after their ship was taken over by Israeli defence forces have called on the Irish people to boycott Israeli goods until the blockade of Gaza is ended. They have also called on the Government to put pressure on the EU to suspend the […]
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Supporting Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
Alice Walker 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner Posted: June 7, 2010 09:55 PM “You will have no protection.” – Medgar Evers to Civil Rights Activists in Mississippi, shortly before he was assassinated on June 12, 1963. My heart is breaking; but I do not mind. For one thing, as soon as I wrote those […]
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Gaza aid flotilla: Henning Mankell calls for sanctions on Israel
Swedish crime novelist Henning Mankell, who travelled in the Gaza aid flotilla, has urged global sanctions on Israel after the deadly strike on the convoy. Mankell said sanctions against Israel would put pressure on the country to lift the naval blockade on Gaza just as sanctions against South Africa had contributed to the dismantling of […]
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