Results for: Boycott

Analysis

Israelis Are Beginning to See the Power of BDS

Shir Hever [Alternative Information Center (AIC)] -  In recent years, there has been a gradual growth in the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, calling to put economic pressure on Israel until it recognizes the rights of the occupied Palestinian people and puts an end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

March 6, 2009
In the News

Sign the Peace Cycle Petition against the Eu-Israel Association Agreement

The Peace Cycle (www.thepeacecycle.com) will cycle from the International Courts of Justice in the Hague to the European Parliament in Brussels, to hand-deliver this petition to the European Parliament on 31 March 2009.  

March 6, 2009
In the News

UK Government Boycotts Israeli Tycoon Lev Leviev over Settlement Construction

New York, NY, March 4 – The government of the United Kingdom has decided to boycott Israeli diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz Daily today.

 

 

March 4, 2009
In the News

“Israeli Apartheid Week” Taking Place in Universities and Refugee Camps Across the Occupied West Bank

March 2nd – March 8th 2009
Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Jericho, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Tubas
For a detailed list of events, please see: http://apartheidweek.org

 

BDS National Committee (BNC), Occupied Palestine, 26 February 2009 – The fifth international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) – occurring in over 40 cities in Palestine and worldwide – will be held across the West Bank from 2-8 March 2009.

March 3, 2009
In the News

Israeli Apartheid Week Launches in Cities Around the World

The 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week is now taking place across the globe from March 1-8, 2009!

Click here to go to the Israeli Apartheid Week Website (www.apartheidweek.org)

March 3, 2009
Analysis

Sustaining global solidarity after Gaza

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, February 28th, 2009 -- The Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, which has now claimed more
than 1,400 lives, generated serious popular backlash the world over.

 

March 2, 2009
In the News

Welsh Student Action Forces University to Divest its Holdings in Major Arms Companies

Lisa Jones [Wales Online] 27 February 2009 - A THREE-DAY sit-in by students protesting against their university’s investment in major arms companies has ended.

Cardiff Students Against War yesterday finished its occupation of the Shandon Lecture Theatre in Cardiff University’s main building on Park Place after bosses agreed to pull funds out of two companies.

March 2, 2009
In the News

The Haverford Campaign Calls for Divestment from Israel

By Nathan Karnovsky [Bi-College News] 24 February 2009 - “Do you notice that, even among educated people, there is general recognition of the fact that the modern state of Israel was founded as a symbol of the suffering of humanity…but almost no awareness that this has been at the expense of another people who were innocent of guilt?”


These are the words of Harry Saul, a member of Haverford College’s Class of 1972.

Cultural Boycott
February 25, 2009
Analysis

Global boycott movement marks its successes

Jeff Handmaker [Electronic Intifada] 20 February 2009 - Responding to the many calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, solidarity movements around the world have marked many successes.

 

It is important for human rights advocates to build on this momentum and seize the opportunity to do what is within their power to try and hold Israel accountable for its abuses of human rights and other international laws.

 

 

February 23, 2009
In the News

CUPE (Canada) votes for academic boycott of Israel

Adrian Morrow [Toronto Star] - University workers in the Canadian Union of Public Employees have passed a controversial motion calling for an academic boycott of Israel, and union members from at least one Toronto university are planning to pressure their school to cut any financial ties with the country.

Cultural Boycott
February 23, 2009