[Globes] - Israel is the world's third largest defense exporter, after the US and Russia. Israeli defense companies signed $6.3 billion worth of new export contracts for weapons, munitions, technologies, and equipment during 2008, and $20.3 billion in 2005-08, according to the Ministry of Defense, disclosed by "Defense News" in this week's edition.

PACBI [1 October 2009] - Since its founding in 2004, PACBI has advocated a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, based on the premise that these institutions are complicit in the system of oppression that has denied Palestinians their basic rights guaranteed by international law.  

Sami Hermez
The Electronic Intifada
1 October 2009

As it has been published today, Solidaries Industrie, a large french industrial trade union, has joined the BDS campaign. It happens a few days after the british trade union confederation also is calling for Boycott. 

 http://www.solidaires-industrie.org/Boycott-Israel

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