Results for: Boycott

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Israel wants to buy U.S. Vulcan system

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's defense minister wants to buy a U.S. military system to protect its southern towns and strategic facilities from Gaza-fired rockets.

Ehud Barak will ask the Pentagon to sell a Vulcan-Phalanx cannon and radar system to Israel at a cost of $25 million, Israel's daily Ha'aretz reported Tuesday.

Military Embargo
April 21, 2009
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Palestinian Civil Society Launches “Israel Review Conference” in Geneva on the Eve of Durban Review

As UN Blocks Plestine-Related Side Events at Durban Review Conference, Palestinian Civil Society Launches “Israel Review Conference” in Geneva on the Eve of Durban Review

 

April 20, 2009
In the News

Israel Review Conference comes to a Close as Durban Review Conference Begins

20 April 2009 -- Thousands of people have gathered in Geneva from all corners of the globe to attend the Durban Review Conference.

 

Despite official efforts to exclude the voices of the victims, it has brought together many civil society actors struggling against racial discrimination, including those working to end Israel’s regime of racism and racial discrimination against the Palestinians. The latter have just completed a two-day Israel Review Conference that was held on 18-19 April 2009.

 

April 20, 2009
In the News

The UK’s Watchkeeper ISTAR UAV

Defense Industry Daily - Britain has given the green light to the Watchkeeper Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program. The initial August 2005 contract award to Thales UK was worth around GBP 700 million, and the program expected to create or sustain up to 2,100 high-quality manufacturing jobs in the UK. The Watchkeeper platform is based on Elbit Systems’ Hermes 450 UAV platform, and executed via a joint venture.

Military Embargo
April 19, 2009
In the News

Brown University: Student power for Palestine

Simon Lieblin
Brown Daily Herald
15 April 2009

 

Cultural Boycott
April 15, 2009
In the News

Key Dutch party: Sanctions against Israel if it thwarts peace

Cnaan Liphshiz [Haaretz] 11 April 2009 -- The Netherlands must impose economic sanctions against Israel if the new government in Jerusalem thwarts the peace process with the Palestinians, the Dutch Labor party said last week.

April 14, 2009
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IMI developing electric Hummer

Globes - The silent vehicle uses a powerful electric motor backed by a diesel engine.

Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) is developing an electric version of the Hummer all-terrain vehicle. IMI's Slavin plant, which also develops and upgrades armored vehicles and tanks.
 

Military Embargo
April 9, 2009
Analysis

The campaign to isolate apartheid Israel -- lessons from South Africa

By Salim Vally [Links International Journal] April 2009 - There are moments in modern history when particular struggles galvanise millions around the world to act in solidarity.

 

This occurred during the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Vietnamese people against US imperialism and the liberation struggles of Southern Africa. The time has now come for progressive humanity to cut through the obfuscations, canards and calumnies and meaningfully support the resistance of the Palestinian people.

April 7, 2009
Analysis

The South Africa Moment in Palestine

Justin Podur interviews Omar Barghouti for Upping the Ante

5 April 2009

 

Omar Barghouti is an activist and writer based in Palestine. He was one of the early advocates of a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions strategy against Israel's occupation and apartheid policies. He was one of the headline speakers of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2009. I interviewed him in Toronto on March 2, 2009.

April 5, 2009
In the News

Cyprus checking out Israeli fruit con

By Nathan Morley [Cyprus Mail] 19 March 2009 -  COMMERCE Minister Antonis Paschalides is looking into a humiliating blunder by a leading EU supermarket chain after it sold tons of Israeli fruit as ”Produce of Cyprus”, he said yesterday.


German-owned Aldi were left red-faced when they admitted to the Cyprus Mail that they had effectively misled thousands of Irish consumers by falsely labeling Israeli grapefruit as Cypriot produce.

April 3, 2009