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Fatah Leaders Call for All-Out Boycott of Israel
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu A member of the central council of the Fatah party, headed by Abbas, calls on the Palestinian Authority to extend its boycott of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) products to all of Israel. Speaking at a recent conference in El Bireh, next to Ramallah, Mahmoud al Aylool said an all-out boycott of […]
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Novelistic Scabs
Amitav Ghosh and Margaret Atwood decided to accept a literary prize in Israel. The prize, half a million dollar each, donated by an Israeli billionaire who owns photo booths, was to be handed to them at Tel Aviv University, which “boasts of 55 joint technological projects with the Israeli army”, by war criminal Shimon Peres. […]
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Omar Barghouti in Rome
by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel on May 12, 2010 Last night I went to hear Omar Barghouti at an event titled “Palestine today. Nonviolent resistance to the Israeli occupation: academic and cultural boycott,” organised by the Roman network for solidarity with the Palestinian people. There were about 80 people there, and the event included the presentation of […]
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CAIA Province-wide Day of Action: Dalton McGuinty, Stop Doing Business with Israeli Apartheid!
CAIA Province-wide Day of Action Start: May 26 2010 12:00 pm End: May 26 2010 1:00 pm Dalton McGuinty, Stop Doing Business with Israeli Apartheid! The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) is calling on our allies to join us in telling Premier Dalton McGuinty that Ontario should not be doing business with Israeli Apartheid. This […]
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The Universoty of California’s Policy Makes No Sense – Jewish Voice for Peace
Published by Jewish Voice for Peace, May 11, 2010 Jewish Voice for Peace is puzzled by University of California President Mark Yudof”s statement on the recent divestment efforts at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. President Yudof has either not read the text of the bills or is choosing to misinterpret them, as neither bill […]
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BRICUP condemns attempts to censor Israeli supporters of BDS and the attacks on academic freedom by an Israeli university lecturer.
Call to censor Israeli supporters of BDS Appeal to Reason By Dr. Mordechai Kedar, IAM chairman motikedar[at]gmail.com [Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan U.) Served for 25 years in IDF Military Intelligence specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups and the Syrian domestic arena. A lecturer in Arabic at Bar-Ilan U., he is […]
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TAU professors denounce Dershowitz for speech against left
Academics hit back after U.S. commentator slams university staff for backing boycotts against Israel. By Or Kashti Senior faculty members at Tel Aviv University have come out against remarks by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz on Saturday in which he condemned Israeli university faculty who criticize Israel and have even supported an academic boycott […]
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MSU: A Call to Boycott, Divest and Sanction
By Aminah Galal on May. 10, 2010 Every May, the Muslim Student Union (MSU), with the support of many progressive and diverse student organizations, presents a week-long series of events dedicated to sharing the story of a people subjected to 62 years of statelessness and oppression. Because the mainstream media rarely portrays the plight of […]
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BOYCOTT THOSE WHO REFUSE TO BOYCOTT
The artists who refuse to honour the cultural boycott against apartheid in Israel need a wake up call…… THEIR DVD”s, cassettes, videos and wherever else their works appear must be boycotted, perhaps then they will get the message. Artists that have performed in Israel in the past year include… Paul McCartney Paul Anka The Pet […]
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University of California execs say they’ll only divest from occupation if US gov’t finds genocide
by Jeff Blankfort and Phil Weiss on May 11, 2010 Yesterday Weiss wrote that Elena Kagan’s nomination calls on American Jews to recognize our prominence in the elite of American society. Here’s some more evidence. According to wikipedia, Marc Yudof, an educator who is president of the University of California, is Jewish and has sterling […]
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