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UC president urged to intervene in student BDS battles

NEW YORK—Emotionally charged student government debates over resolutions urging divestment in companies doing business with Israel have become a perennial distraction across the University of California system, and the head of a prominent national security think tank has urged UC President Janet Napolitano to become personally involved.

Economic Boycott
Student solidarity
August 3, 2014
بواسطة: 
Heritage Florida
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Millennials are over Israel: A new generation, outraged over Gaza, rejects Washington’s reflexive support

It might seem counterintuitive to make the argument that Israel should no longer count on U.S. support for its policies as assuredly it has in the past. 

Economic Boycott
August 1, 2014
بواسطة: 
Salon
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Is BDS' campaign against Israel reaching a turning point?

At the height of its military - particularly nuclear - and economic power, Israel is feeling uncharacteristically vulnerable; but this time the threat is ironically coming from a nonviolent movement anchored in international law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

December 23, 2013
بواسطة: 
Omar Barghouti
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S. Africa's ruling party, the ANC, reaffirms boycott of Israel resolution

South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), at its 53rd National Conference, reaffirmed a resolution supporting the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel campaign.

December 21, 2012
بواسطة: 
Mbuyiseni Ndlozi for BDS South Africa
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Book review: "BDS provides a way to break our collective chains"

The recent decision by Morgan Stanley Chase International to remove Caterpillar from its socially responsible investment funds, specifically citing the corporation’s “controversial” role in the occupied West Bank and Gaza (and the ensuing decision to follow suit by the teachers’ pension investment firm, TIAA-CREF), testify to the growing str

July 31, 2012
بواسطة: 
Rod Such on Electronic Intifada
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Call for boycott of SA company complicit in Israeli Occupation

Two South African human rights organizations, BDS South Africa and the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, have thrown their weight behind the consumer boycott of a South African company, Karsten Farms, which is complicit in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.

July 23, 2012
بواسطة: 
BDS South Africa
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ISRAEL ANTI-BOYCOTT LAW AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

A law passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) making it an offence to call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in Israel, Amnesty International said today.

The controversial law, passed on Monday night, makes it a civil offence to call for an economic, cultural, or academic boycott of people or institutions in Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) for political reasons.

July 12, 2011
بواسطة: 
Amnesty International
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Tutu boosts Murdoch-battered BDS campaign in Sydney

At a small ceremony on 7 June in Marrickville, a Sydney suburb, local mayor Fiona Byrne was presented with a letter of support from the South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

“I want to pay my respects to you and your fellow councillors in Marrickville for taking a stand to isolate the Israeli state,” Tutu wrote. “We in South Africa, who both suffered apartheid and defeated it, have the moral right and responsibility to name and shame institutionalized separation, exclusion and domination by one ethnic group over others.

July 5, 2011
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Sarah Irving on The Electronic Intifada
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Earlham College students launch divestment campaign

The following call for BDS at Earlham was circulated by Earlham Alumni Against Apartheid:

At Earlham College, a group students supported by alumni are calling on their college to join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid.  BDS Earlham and Earlham Alumni Against Apartheid are asking you to join their campaign by signing their petition.

BDS Earlham is calling on Earlham College to end its inves

June 21, 2011
بواسطة: 
Earlham Alumni Against Apartheid
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Former Israeli Defense Minister warns of BDS, Sanctions

Usually in mainstream Israeli political discourse, BDS is the “love” that dare not speak its name.  If the Knesset is seeking to pass a law to criminalize references to the Nakba, all the more so references to the terrible act of ‘delegitimization’ (what an ugly, ungainly word) that is BDS.  It’s simplytreif in polite political discourse.

June 13, 2011
بواسطة: 
Richard Silverstein