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January 2010, Ottawa, Ontario - SAIA demands that Carleton University immediately divest its stock in BAE Systems, L-3 Communications, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, and Tesco, and adopt a Socially Responsible Investment policy.  

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 (Bernama) -- More than 100 members of Viva Palestina Malaysia (VPM), a coalition of NGOs, on Sunday participated in a walkabout for about five kilometres here in support of the efforts towards creating a free and independent state of Palestine.  

LAHORE [Nation] 25 January 2010 - A campaign to express solidarity with the Palestinian people was launched here in Lahore on Sunday. It would work under the name of “Pakistanis for Palestine” initiative.   Campaign coordinators and members, Amanullah Kariapper, Magid Shihade and Qalandar Memon announced this while addressing a joint news conference at Lahore Press Club here.  

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has been very heartened by media reports that the university community at the University/> of Bergen/>/> (UiB) has begun an open discussion of the academic boycott of

By Sylvia Schwarz |MinnPost| 20 January 2010 -- The four Geneva conventions at the core of international humanitarian law were adopted in 1949 and ratified by 194 countries in the world.  

Occupied Ramallah, 19 January 2010 Dear Santana,

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Students‘ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) call on students, lecturers and film-makers to boycott the 13th International Student Film Festival, scheduled for June 2010 in the city of Tel Aviv.

Why does Noam Chomsky oppose boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, and why does he think Palestinians should not talk about justice and redress for their ethnic cleansing from their homeland in 1948? Why does Chomsky dismiss any talk about the influence of the Israel lobby?   Click here to download the download the Abunimah and Blankfort response  

John Pilger [New Statesman] 14 January 2010 - A new global movement is challenging Israel's violations of international law with the same strategies that were used against apartheid  

Occupied Ramallah, 13 January 2010 Dear Bono,

The following press release was issued by the United States Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) on 23 December 2009: