IPSC 12/09/09 - As part of the international campaign of boycott against Israel, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign today launched an action against Dead Sea Products, an Israeli cosmetics firm which has a stall in Jervis Centre in Dublin.
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Occupied Ramallah, September 10, 2009
European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza - Clare Short MP and the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza have launched a legal action to require the European Union to uphold the human rights conditions entrenched in the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Ilan Pappe, [The Electronic Intifada] 3 September 2009 -Today was a unique day in the history of media coverage and discussion in Israel. All the electronic agencies, radio and television alike, discussed the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians and more importantly, the possible price tag attached to it.
[Norwatch] - The British fiduciary BlackRock refutes information from Norwatch that they divested from a West Bank firm after pressure from Norwegian investors. But the company does not wish to precise exactly what they think is wrong in the coverage. Norwatch wrote last week that the British fiduciary BlackRock had sold its investments which were placed in settlement construction on the West Bank.
Do not invite Israeli cultural ambassadors to the Catalonian Diada! Occupied Palestine, 6 September 2009
Adri Nieuwhof [The Electronic Intifada] 2 September 2009 -- Israel's largest produce exporter, Agrexco, is once again under fire because of its dates produced in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. This year, the company's dates arrived in time for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which faithful Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset and traditionally break their fast by eating a date.
An Open Letter to the Toronto International Film Festival [September 2, 2009] --As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
Open Letter from PACBI to International Co-Organizers and Participants in the Conference ”Secularism, Nationalism and Human Rights: Law and Politics in the Middle East and Europe,” organized by the Israeli Law and Society Association, Tel Aviv University Law Faculty, December 20-21, 2009;And
The Globe and Mail -Wednesday, Sep. 02, 2009 An international group of more than 50 prominent filmmakers, writers, artists and academics –including Ken Loach, David Byrne, Naomi Klein, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda,Wallace Shawn and Danny Glover – has signed a letter protesting the TorontoInternational Film Festival’s decision to spotlight the city of Tel Aviv andthe work of 10 Israeli filmmakers.