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In the News

Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 2 December 2009 - The international campaign to boycott Ahava beauty products has recently won the support of a Dutch parliamentarian and an Israeli peace group.

 

During the past few months, activists in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Israel, the United States and the Netherlands have campaigned against the sale of Ahava products because of the company's complicity in the Israeli occupation.

 

December 3, 2009
Analysis

Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Report on the Week of Solidarity Against the Apartheid Walls in Palestine and the Siege of Gaza (9th – 16th November 2009)

By Kevin Squires & Freda Hughes

November 30, 2009
In the News

Adri Nieuwhof [Electronic Intifada] 24 November 2009 - Despite mounting pressure to withdraw from the light rail project in Jerusalem designed to serve the needs of Israel's illegal settlements, the French transportation giant Veolia is set to be highly involved in the project for the next five years.

 

The company needs to support its new Israeli partner, the Dan Bus Company, which lacks the experience to operate the light rail.

 

November 24, 2009
Analysis

Adri Nieuwhof [Electronic Intifada] 24 November 2009 - Despite mounting pressure to withdraw from the light rail project in Jerusalem designed to serve the needs of Israel's illegal settlements, the French transportation giant Veolia is set to be highly involved in the project for the next five years.

 

The company needs to support its new Israeli partner, the Dan Bus Company, which lacks the experience to operate the light rail.

 

November 24, 2009
Analysis

A, strong, engaging, intellectually challenging and refreshingly courageous position on academic boycott by Professor Fred Moten of Duke University, published by PACBI.

 

November 16, 2009
Analysis

Achmad Cassiem is a veteran of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He joined the armed struggle for justice at age 15, and at the age of 17 he became one of the youngest people to be imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, where he served a total of 11 years.

 

He is a teacher by profession, a founder of the Islamic Unity Convention and an adviser to the Islamic Human Rights Commission. He says that Israeli apartheid is worse than South Africa ever was (and he would know).

 

November 16, 2009
Analysis


Adbusters
| 09 Nov 2009 -- The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was launched in July 2005 by the Palestinian BDS National Committee and is endorsed by over 170 Palestinian organizations from the occupied Palestinian Territories, from Palestinian citizens of Israel and from the vast diaspora of Palestinian emigrants and refugees.

 

November 14, 2009
Analysis

Rachel Shabi [Foreign Policy] 12 November 2009 - Query Jerusalem residents about their new railway and the most common response is: Don't ask. Then locals will proceed to tell you all about it anyway: a long litany of complaints over the snarled-up roads, broken promises, and urban disasters involved in the ongoing construction of a light railway track through the city.

 

November 13, 2009
In the News

Rachel Shabi [Foreign Policy] 12 November 2009 - Query Jerusalem residents about their new railway and the most common response is: Don't ask. Then locals will proceed to tell you all about it anyway: a long litany of complaints over the snarled-up roads, broken promises, and urban disasters involved in the ongoing construction of a light railway track through the city.

 

November 13, 2009
Analysis

Jamal Jum'a [Huffington Post] 28 October 2009 - My friend and fellow organizer Mohammad Othman, a 34-year-old Palestinian human rights advocate, was detained by Israel on September 22 while returning home from meetings with Norwegian government officials.

 

November 3, 2009