News type: In the News
Palestinian Queers Call for BDS
[PQBDS] 27 June 2010 - As Palestinian Queers, we see the Queer movements as political in their nature; and ones that analyze the intersections...
Swedish Dockworkers Union blockade of Israeli goods begins - ten containers held
By midnight on the 23rd June the Swedish Dock-workers union week-long blockade of goods to and from Israel started. The ongoing nation-wide blockade...
Historic Victory at Oakland Port – Israeli Ship Blocked from Unloading (with video)
21 June 2010 [Transport Workers Solidarity Committee] - In a historic action and unprecedented action today, over 800 labor and community activists...
PGFTU message to San Francisco Bay Area trade unionists
To our respected sisters, brothers and comrades in the trade unions, labor councils and workers’ organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area...
EU Considering Aid to Israeli Military
EU Considering Aid to Israeli Military By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jun 18, 2010 (IPS) - A leading Israeli supplier of warplanes used to kill and maim...
PSCABI Open Letter to DJ Tiesto: Don't perform in Israel
Dear Tiesto, Nietzsche once said that life without music would be a mistake. The greater mistake against humanity would be to deny one the ability...
Folk musician Devendra Banhart cancels Tel Aviv shows
[Jerusalem Post] 15 June 2010 - Folk artist Devendra Banhart on Monday night cancelled two shows he had been set to play in Tel Aviv on June 16 and...
United Methodists Vote to Divest from Companies that Benefit from the Occupation of Palestine
ST. CHARLES, ILL. June 15, 2010 – At its annual conference, the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC) of the United Methodist Church (UMC) voted to...
Oslo borough votes to boycott Israel
[Palestine Note] 14 June 2010 - The old Grorud borough district of Oslo, Norway's capital, voted last week to boycott Israel, Norwegian news service...
Israel's Freedom Flotilla Massacre underlines the urgency of intensifying BDS
Occupied Palestine, 08 June 2010 -- In light of Israel’s massacre of humanitarian relief workers and activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla on...