BDS Campaign
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Don’t Buy Apartheid: Palestine Solidarity Campaign launches new boycott drive across Britain
PROTESTERS will target shops across Britain tomorrow as part of a new boycott campaign in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign urges consumers, shops, restaurants, and venues to show solidarity with Palestinians by boycotting Israeli produce and Coca-Cola. Continue reading
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Israel lobby loses latest appeal against American Studies Association
An incessant Israel lobby-backed attempt to censor and punish the American Studies Association over its support of an academic boycott of Israel has once again failed in court. Continue reading
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Head of UK Israel Lobby Group Announces Gov’t Plan To Ban Boycotting Israel
Yesterday, December 17, whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday alone in a prison cell in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has been locked up for nine months for refusing to testify in a grand jury proceeding against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism and “The Israel Project” By Askiah Adam
Israel is off-limits. The criminalisation of anti-Semitism means nothing short of this. In fact, France’s President Macron says anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism and both are now legally defined as “hate crimes”. Will this be a global precursor? Will the world uphold such a sweeping, broad legal definition that has the potential to embrace… Continue reading
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Why liberal Jews in Israel and the US have made Lara Alqasem a cause celebre By Jonathan Cook
An American student of Palestinian descent detained in Israel’s airport for nearly a fortnight has become an unexpected cause celebre. Lara Alqasem was refused entry under legislation passed last year against boycott activists, and Israeli courts are now deciding whether allowing her to study human rights at an Israeli university threatens public order. Continue reading
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Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup By Dr James M Dorsey
7 June 2018 — CounterCurrents Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital. Continue reading
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NYT’s Campus Free Speech Coverage Focuses 7-to-1 on Plight of Right By Adam Johnson
15 November 2017 — FAIR College Republicans complained to the New York Times (9/23/16) that the nomination of Donald Trump “prompted widespread mockery from their liberal classmates.” Over the past 18 months, the New York Times has dedicated 21 columns and articles to the subject of conservatives’ free speech on campus, while only three covered Continue reading
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Video: Boycott Israel, Go to Jail?
A bipartisan Senate bill would make boycotting Israel punishable by up to 20 years in prison. But a new pushback from groups including the ACLU could help stop the ‘draconian’ measure, says Josh Ruebner of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Continue reading
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A concerted effort from Europe against Israeli produce exporter Agrexco By Stephanie Westbrook
This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant. Continue reading
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Commemorating the Gaza Massacre – End Complicity, Intensify BDS
On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. Two years have passed and those responsible for the atrocities committed have not yet been held accountable. Continue reading
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BDS update: ‘Besiege your siege!’ By Eric Walberg
As Canadians turn their thoughts to Noel feasts, boycott divestment sanction (BDS) activists are finding that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Harper’s over-the-top obsession with Israel has been a boon to educating Canadians about Israeli apartheid. Continue reading
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BDS VICTORY: Veolia tries again to sell off its share in the Jerusalem Light Rail
After losing billions of dollars worth of contracts, largely due to a concerted international BDS campaign against it in many countries, Veolia is bowing to pressure and trying again to get rid of its heavy financial burden by signing a contract to transfer its shares in the illegal Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR) project to an Israeli company over a… Continue reading
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South Africa’s Israel boycott By Ronnie Kasrils
The campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel has now launched in South Africa. Trade unions in South Africa have publicly committed their support; most notably with the action by South African Transport and Allied Workers Union dockworkers early last year to refuse offloading Israeli goods at Durban harbour – a commitment that was… Continue reading
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ISRAEL AND ECONOMIC “WARFARE”
On Wednesday, July 14th, the Israeli Parliament approved the first of three readings of a new law. If passed, the law will make it illegal to declare a boycott on Israel or Israeli companies, participate in a boycott, or provide aid in the form of information to anyone who is part of the Boycott, Divestment… Continue reading
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BDS to Israel: Abide by International Law By Neve Gordon – Israel
BDS is also not about a particular solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but rather the demand that Israel abide by international law and UN resolutions. It is accordingly something that you can support if you are for a two state solution or a one state solution. You can even support it as a Zionist. It… Continue reading
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Co-Author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights endorses BDS
Israel’s illegal and immoral attack on the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy, which left at least nine dead and dozens injured, has rightfully stunned the world. The all-civilian convoy of 6 ships carried over 10,000 tons of critically-needed humanitarian aid and nearly 700 citizens from 40 countries. The Flotilla was an ambitious attempt to break… Continue reading
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LPHR PRESENTS SETTLEMENT GOODS AND THE LAW 16 June 2010 6.30pm – 8pm
This workshop is an opportunity for activists, NGO workers, academics, students or anyone interested or engaged in these campaigns to discuss the legal questions provoked by the trade in settlement goods. Is it legal to sell settlement goods in the UK? To what extent does the sale of settlement goods breach consumer and customs law?… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Who Will Speak for the Palestinian Prisoners? Who will speak for the Children?
As survivors of Israel’s brutal attack in international waters begin their testimonies of murder and mayhem on the sea, every one of them reminds us that, although they were imprisoned and brutalized for three days, Palestinian prisoners have no voice, no public forum to tell their stories. Continue reading
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Hazem Jamjoum: Palestine from Nakba to the Global Movement for BDS
Hazem Jamjoum is a very distinguished activist and one of the key organisers of the Stop the JNF Campaign, which was formalised 8-9 May 2010, in Edinburgh. Information about this campaign will be circulating soon. He will be speaking in Bradford tonight, London on Wednesday, Nottingham on Thursday. Continue reading
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