News type: In the News
Legislating academic (un)freedom
Opposition to academic boycott has taken a serious turn, one as predictable as it is ghastly. Those who have debated whether or not boycott,...
SodaStream Drops Amid Sanctions Over Jewish Settlements
SodaStream International Ltd., the Israeli maker of home soda machines with a factory in the West Bank, sank to the lowest since 2012 in New York...
Denmark's largest bank blacklists Israel's Hapoalim over settlement construction
Denmark's largest bank decided to blacklist Bank Hapoalim because of its involvement in the funding of settlement construction. Danske Bank added...
Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem calls for boycott in response to Beit Safafa highway
Update to the Urgent Appeal issued in April 2013 by the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem. The Appeal, including background, is...
Financial Times editorial criticises SodaStream and illegal Israeli settlement firms
On January 31, leading international business newspaper the Financial Times published an editorial criticising SodaStream and illegal Israeli...
Cartoonists to Angouleme Festival: Drop SodaStream
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014-- Over forty cartoonists and illustrators from a dozen countries around the world released an open letter today to Franck...
Scarlett Johansson quits Oxfam role following public outcry
Scarlett Johansson has today announced that she is resigning her role as Oxfam ambassador following a huge outcry over her role as the public face of...
Palestinians ask Rome council to boycott Mekorot
Palestinian civil society organizations highlight that the proposed collaboration between Rome's water company ACEA and Mekorot amounts to a...
Palestinian civil society to Oxfam: “match words with action”, break ties with Scarlett Johansson
Occupied Palestine, January 27 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian...
Another Italian Council condemns Pizzarotti over A1 train
The Italian Coalition Stop That Train calls on the Italian government to following the example of other European countries and discourage Italian...