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Norwegian Ministry of Finance excludes settlement funder from list of organisations that Norwegians get tax deductions for providing funds to illegal settlements
The University of California Student Association passed a resolution condemning attempts to censure BDS efforts and calling on the university to divest from
companies profiting from occupation
Friends Fiduciary Corporation, the socially responsible investment firm serving over 300 Quaker institutions in the United States, has dropped its holdings in Hewlett Packard and Veolia Environment, two corporations that support Israel’s occupation of Palesitnian territory
From November 28 to December 1 2012 the World Social Forum “Free Palestine” will be held in Porto Alegre (Brazil). You can now register your your organization and submit the pre-registration of self-organized activities for the World Social Forum Free Palestine. The deadline for the registration of activities is October 15, 2012. After this period you can edit or cancel activities already submitted but you won't be able to insert new proposals.
Danish Merkur Bank and two major NGOs have cut ties with G4S, the private security firm that Palestinian civil society called for action against over its role in Israeli prisons at which Palestinians are detained.
The news was announced as part of a Danish week of action against the company.
Youth group Palestinians for Dignity in front of EU offices to protest increased EU-Israel relations. The protest came shortly after a European Parliament committee narrowly voted to approve a new trade protocol with Israel
