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BDS in the USA, 2001-2010
Noura Erakat Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. On April 26, 2010, the student senate at the University of California-Berkeley upheld, by one vote, an executive veto on SB 118–the student body resolution endorsing divestment of university funds from General Electric and United […]
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Pixies cancel concert in Israel after Gaza Flotilla killings
The national demo in London was great yesterday. Estimated at 20,000 people, it had a powerful atmosphere: vibrant, diverse and hopeful. We commemorated those killed and determined to ensure they didn’t die in vain, with a tremendous sense of purpose to build a bigger solidarity movement. After yesterday’s global day of protest, comes welcome news […]
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Loewenstein: Boycott, divest from and sanction Israel
Sydney-based journalist and author Antony Loewenstein is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies and author of the best-selling 2006 book My Israel Question. He is the co-founder of advocacy group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and is a board member of Macquarie University”s Centre for Middle East and North African Studies. Articles and commentary by Loewenstein […]
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British Writers in Support of Palestine
June 4th 2010 I”m proud to be a signatory to this letter published in shortened form in the Independent on Sunday. Dear Editor The murder of humanitarian aid workers aboard the Mavi Marmara in international waters is the latest tragic example of Israel”s relentless attacks on human rights. But while violently preventing the free passage […]
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Pixies call off Israel concert after Gaza raid
Sun Jun 6, 6:53 am ET JERUSALEM – The U.S. rock band Pixies has canceled a concert in Tel Aviv this week in the wake of Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. The group’s Tel Aviv promoter, Shuki Weiss, relayed a statement from the band announcing the cancellation “with great regret.” The band […]
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CALL FROM GAZA TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SIEGE
CALL FROM GAZA TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD TO BREAK THE SIEGE Besieged Gaza, Palestine 5.6.2010 One-and-a-half years after Israeli army perpetrated a massacre upon the population of Gaza, Apartheid Israel commits another crime against partisans of Palestine in international waters. The world is moved at the plight of Palestinians and their supporters. All […]
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Culture Jam Against the Blockade of Gaza and Attack on the Flotilla
Wow! More moving ads in SF. May 31st, 2010, Israel attacked an aid flotilla to Gaza. 700 kidnapped, 9 murdered and Israel says it is the victim. Sound familiar? Same story since 1948. END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA AND HOLD ISRAEL ACCOUNTABLE!
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What Next? The Freedom Flotilla and the Struggle to Break the Siege of Gaza
Rafeef Ziadah While people around the world are still in shock at the killing by Israeli commandos of innocent human rights activists on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, those who have been following Israeli state actions for some time are not surprised. This is an ongoing pattern of Israeli state terrorism and collective punishment. While […]
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Argentinians call for boycott of Israel
En una multitudinaria movilización convocada por las comunidades palestinas y árabes de Argentina, en conjunto con diversas organizaciones políticas y sociales, el pueblo argentino expresó su repudio y condena frente a la embajada sionista de Buenos Aires por la reciente masacre perpetrada por el Estado terrorista de Israel a la flotilla humanitaria que se dirigía […]
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