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The day after the American pop star Macy Gray announced controversial plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March, we sat down for a drink at Pua, a bar nestled in the heart of one of Jaffa’s most gentrified neighborhoods.

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In 2005, more than 170 Palestinian civil society organisations issued an international call for the boycott of Israel. Inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign is conducted in the framework of international solidarity and resistance to injustice and oppression.

February 5, 2011
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Writing in the Huffington Post today, BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti responds to the attack on the movement by Bernard-Henri Levy:

In his angry attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Mr.

February 1, 2011
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In the latest sign that BDS is penetrating the media mainstream, Reuters today published an article on the BDS movement.

January 23, 2011
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In the latest sign that BDS is penetrating the media mainstream, Reuters today published an article on the BDS movement.

January 23, 2011
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In an article today for the LA Times, Palestinian author and activist Ali Abunimah argues that the BDS movement is pressuring Israel to Palestinian rights:

Absent any real action by the United States or other governments to hold Israel accountable, it is up to civil society to step in.

December 21, 2010
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2010 may yet prove to be a turning point in the Palestine solidarity movement in Australia.

December 12, 2010
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In meeting rooms and conference halls, on high streets and university campuses, the Palestine solidarity movement is changing. In the dozen years following the signing of the Oslo Accords, few doubted the determination and resolve of solidarity campaigns, but there were fears that they were beginning to lose direction.

September 15, 2010
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Image credit: http://www.hsjp.org/Mohammad Talaat, The Electronic Intifada

Following a sharp increase in divestment efforts across North American college campuses last spring, this academic year promises an even greater number of in

September 15, 2010