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STATEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL’S WAR ON PALESTINE
February 1, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF AMERICAN JEWS ISSUES American Jews for a Just Peace, a new alliance of progressive and predominantly Jewish activists working in the United States working to ensure equal rights, safety, and dignity for all the people of historic Palestine, today issued the following statement: Israel’s recent […]
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CFA Call for A Halt to Violence Against All Civilians in Palestine and IsraelӬ Ҭ
The Board of Directors of the California Faculty Association, which is also SEIU Local 1983,and represents faculty, counselors and librarians at the California State University, passed the following resolution today: Resolution: CFA Call for A Halt to Violence Against All Civilians in Palestine and Israel? ? Whereas, violence against civilians – whether in Palestine or […]
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COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi’s address to Lenasia Rally in solidarity with the people of Gaza
Submitted by kole on January 15, 2009 – 9:34am 14th January 2009 – > From our own experience, we know how painful and dehumanising is the system of segregation, otherwise known as apartheid. Apartheid is a system based on the assumption that one group or race is superior to others and therefore has a right […]
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University agrees to cancel Israeli water contract after sit-in
Published Date: 06 February 2009 By CRAIG BROWN A STUDENT sit-in at a Scottish university ended peacefully last night, after the university authorities agreed to cancel their contract with an Israeli water company. The 40 students, led by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, occupied the foyer of Strathclyde University’s McCance building, to demand that it […]
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The philosopher who gave the IDF moral justification in Gaza
w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update – 14:42 06/02/2009 By Amos Harel When senior Israel Defense Forces officers are asked about the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians during the fighting in the Gaza Strip, they almost all give the same answer: The use […]
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U of R Students to Occupy Academic Building for Peace and in Solidarity with Gaza
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE University of Rochester Students for a Democratic Society (UR-SDS) University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 Rochester, NY – 02/05/09– Students from the University of Rochester and members of the local Rochester community will be occupying an academic building on campus tomorrow for peace and in solidarity with the people Gaza and in […]
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Boycotting Israeli Goods…
By Ayesha Niser I challenge you to help free Palestine! In order to help with the Boycott I’ve chosen one company to focus our energy on. That company is Nestle. Nestle is heavily invested in Israel and has “received the Jubilee Award by the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. This is the highest tribute ever awarded […]
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Battle Of The Professors
New York Jewish Week | February 4, 2009 by Sharon Udasin Staff Writer Less than a year and a half after a British academics” boycott against Israel failed to take off, 15 West Coast professors are trying to mount the first-ever such campaign in the United States. In response to Israel”s three-week incursion into Gaza, […]
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Contents of BRICUP Newsletter #13 February 2009
[Note: Please download attached PDF file for the issue of the BRICUP newsletter; table of contents is below.] The PACBI column: In the Aftermath of the Gaza Massacre Imagine that your University is bombarded with tons of explosives! (Islamic University of Gaza) Jerusalem’s Al-Quds University cuts ties with Israeli academia. The US Campaign for an […]
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Support for Israel must stop
Daily Sundial David Klein / Professor of Mathematics, CSUN Published: Friday, February 6, 2009 Updated: Friday, February 6, 2009 When an impoverished Palestinian boy confronts an Israeli tank in front of his home, how do you explain to American taxpayers that the tank is David and the boy is Goliath? Apologists for Israel”s devastating attack […]
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