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Dangerous Liaisons: Norwegian ties to the Israeli Occupation

In May 2012 the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (NUMGE) and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) published a report demonstrating that Norwegian authorities and companies, through financial investments and trade, are involved in activities that contribute to Israel’s breaches of international law and human rights. The report further revealed how groups in Norway give direct support to the occupation by means of monetary transfers to individual settlements.

Military Embargo
June 18, 2013
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Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (NUMGE) and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA)
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United Church of Canada settlement boycott campaign begins

The Executive of the General Council has approved the activation of the Palestine Israel Education and Economic Action Campaign.

May 23, 2013
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The United Church of Canada
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Israel: UN expert warns against Israel’s plans for a six-lane settlement highway in East Jerusalem

GENEVA (13 May 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk today called for an immediate halt to construction of a settlement highway in Beit Safafa (East Jerusalem), also known as the ‘Begin Highway.’ Mr.

May 17, 2013
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Human Rights Groups Condemn SodaStream Sponsorship of Cannes Film Festival's American Pavilion

As the Cannes Film Festival opens today, a coalition of U.S. human rights organizations is criticizing the American Pavilion’s choice of SodaStream as its premier sponsor.

May 15, 2013
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US Campaign to End the Occupation
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SodaStream "treats us like slaves," says Palestinian factory worker

A professionally-produced video recently appeared on YouTube, taking the viewer on a carefully-constructed tour of the production facilities for the Israeli companySodaStream, manufacturer of carbonated drink machines.

The 8.5-minute video focuses on the firm’s factory located in Mishor Adumim, the industrial zone of the illegal Israeli settlement http://elect

May 9, 2013
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Stephanie Westbrook atElectronic Intifada
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Shareholders File Response to CREF’s Refusal to Allow Vote on Divestment From Companies Supporting Human Rights Abuses

Yesterday, lawyers for the We Divest Coalition filed two letters (see here and here) with the U.S.

April 30, 2013
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We Divest
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BDS Roundup: US scholars group unanimously passes boycott of Israeli institutions

In this latest roundup of news from the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement:

- Association for Asian American Studies in US unanimously approves academic boycott resolution
- Sussex University students pass referenda to continue boycott of Israeli goods, urge administration to boycott Veolia
- Faculty at Columbia University and Barnard College launch divestment campaign
- Belgian students call for academic boycott
- UC Davis to vote on divestment
- Sodastream protest leads to boycott victory at Milan bar
- Melbourne activists hold boycott action against Sodastream

Associatio

April 30, 2013
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Nora Barrows-Friedman atElectronic Intifada
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Demonstrations across Palestine and international BDS actions mark Palestinian Land Day

treelandday30 March 2013 -- Palestinians are today commemorating with action Land Day, a day in 1976 when Israeli military forces shot and killed six young Palestinian citizens of Israel. These brave youth were among thousands protesting the Israeli government’s expropriation of Palestinian land.

Stop G4S
March 30, 2013
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
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US Mennonite Church divests from Israeli human rights abuses

MennoniteAKRON, Pa. -- The board of directors of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) U.S. unanimously decided that MCC U.S.

March 26, 2013
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MCC U.S.
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York Federation of Students Endorses BDS Campaign

On March 21st, in an historic vote at the largest students' union in Canada, York University's undergraduate students' union, the York Federation of Students (YFS), voted overwhelmingly in favour of a resolution to endorse the Global Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. In passing this BDS resolution, the YFS now joins many student unions around the world, who have all passed similar resolutions.

March 22, 2013
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SAIA York