Canadian Military Exports to Israel: Aiding and Abetting War Crimes in Gaza (2008-2009) [COAT]

By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT); Editor, Press for Conversion! magazine

Abe Hayeem [The Guardian] 8 April 2009 - The UK Foreign Office will no
longer rent from Lev Leviev. Now other states must also boycott this builder of illegal settlements.

New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel

Sharon Wrobel [Jerusalem Post] 30 March 2009 - Local exporters are losing foreign markets and customers because of the global economic crisis and a growing anti-Israel boycott...

BNC - This year the Latin America Aero & Defense trade show will be held in Rio de Janeiro from April 14 - 17. The show will host and promote the world's most renowned merchants and producers of war, repression, torture and mass murder. Israeli war criminals feature prominently among them.

‘Dear Sir, We are students of your school who have hereby signed this letter  We ask for your permission to give us the chance to express our point of view concerning a very crucial and important subject which is our campaign for Boycotting Israeli products. We ask that our school supports our campaign by also boycotting all Israeli products.

Gulf Times - Students of Qatar University will participate in an international campaign to mobilise the public for a boycott of goods produced by American and other Western firms that support Israel, a local Arabic daily reports.

JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Foreign Press Association on Thursday urged its
members to boycott Israeli army photos and video footage to protest at the shelling of a media building in Gaza City that wounded two cameramen.

In the presence of all national alliances, an urgent meeting for the Follow up Committee was held today declaring Sunday 28/12/2008 a General strike in protest of the Israeli massacres committed against Palestinians in Gaza.

British telecommunications firm FreedomCall has terminated its cooperation with Israel's MobileMax due to the IDF operation in Gaza.

The Turkish public has reacted with anger to the Israeli air strikes on Gaza by calling for their government to condemn the slaughter by suspending Turkey's relations with Israel.

The Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign (www.bigcampaign.org) is issuing an
international call to action against Carmel-Agrexco during February 2009.

The Boycott Israeli Goods
Campaign (www.bigcampaign.org) is issuing an international call to action
against Carmel-Agrexco next February. Carmel-Agrexco is the Israeli national

In Oslo on November 3, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a half-day seminar about business and research cooperation with Israel, inviting Norwegian and Israeli corporations, research institutions in The Research Council of Norway and other representatives of the two countries’ business and research sectors.

Al-Ahram Weekly: A proposal to form a regional organisation has raised eyebrows, writes Sherine Bahaa

AMMAN, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Jordanian Islamist and leftist activists on Saturday staged a sit-in at the country's wholesale food market to protest against exotic Israeli fruits and vegetables being sold.

Among the speakers at the seminar entitled “Boycott of Israel - how and why?” are the former leader of the Norwegian Peoples Aid, Finn Erik Thoresen, who was also active in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, as well as Olav Terje Bergo, who is the editor of Bergensavisen, a local newspaper , that has in the past called for sanctions against Israel.

Abdullah Omar & TML Staff, The Media Line: [Amman] A hero’s welcome for four Jordanian prisoners released from Israeli custody, where they were serving life sentences for killing Israelis, highlights the wide gap between Jordan and Israel, which signed a peace treaty in 1994.
 

Wassim Al-Adel, The Electronic Intifada - While boycott and divestment campaigns in the West become more sophisticated and widespread, the Arab world's longstanding boycott of Israel is being undermined by Arab governments, companies and businessmen.

New fact sheet on Israeli – LA water project

al-Ahram Weekly: It's been more than a decade since British psychiatrist Derek Summerfield called for a medical academic boycott of Israel. Growing up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a Zimbabwean Afrikana mother and British father, he knows all too well what racial discrimination and segregation means. He lived it.

Jewish Exponent: During a speech last week in Center City, Oman's ambassador to the United States lauded the 2006 free-trade agreement between the two countries, and urged for increased economic and political cooperation.

Gulf News: Dubai: The Arab League is considering blacklisting companies belonging to Israeli businessman Lev Leviev and that of his agent in the UAE, the pan-Arab body said just days after Unicef severed ties with the billionaire jeweller.

A network of seventeen Palestinian human rights NGOs today launched a campaign to mobilize the international community to end Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem.

LONDON (AFP): The speaker of the Welsh Assembly is to boycott a meeting with Israel's ambassador to Britain because of the Jewish state's failure to fulfil its obligations towards Palestinians.

End the Occupation South Africa (originally in the Citizen):

Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (South Africa): I am delighted to address you on behalf of the End the Occupation Campaign Steering Committee, on the occasion of the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

The topic for this address is: