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Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians

A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel's long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory and refusal to extend equal rights to Palestinian citizens who suffer from some 35 discriminatory laws.

I have reached this conclusion slowly and painfully.

May 1, 2012
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Desmond Tutu on Campa Bay Times
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Should US churches divest from Israel?

As two US churches consider resolutions, we examine the BDS movement and ask if it helps or hinders peace efforts.

April 25, 2012
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Al Jazeera
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Why BDS doesn't come with a map

In recent reactions to the BDS movement, writers like Peter Beinart, Daniel Levy and Thomas Friedman have offered criticism.

April 19, 2012
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Yousef Munayyer on The Daily Beast
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Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should Be Used to Target Israeli Apartheid

I read with great interest Peter Beinart’s recent New York Times op-ed “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements.”  His thesis is straightforward: Beinart believes Israel is a democratic country being undone by the occupation of the Palestinian territories.  The settlements must be opposed while allegedly democratic Israel must be supported.  Efforts to support the Palestinian right of return (for refugees), he contends, undermine the possibility of a two-state solution and, thereby, end the possibility for Israel as a Jewish homeland.

It is critically important that Beinart identifies the und

April 8, 2012
By: 
Jr. Bill Fletcher on AlterNet
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Why We Need an Open Debate on Israel

Is Israel a threat to world peace? German writer Günter Grass has been blasted as an anti-Semite this week for making just such a claim in a new poem. But while the verse may not win any awards, Grass has kicked off an important -- and long overdue -- debate. And, he's right.

A great poem it is not. Nor is it a brilliant political analysis. But the brief lines that Günter Grass has published under the title "What Must Be Said" will one day be seen as some of his most influential words. They mark a rupture.

April 6, 2012
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Jakob Augstein on Spiegel
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How detention without charge links Israel and apartheid South Africa

Protesters use ladder to fly flags over West Bank wall

Will hunger strikes spark mass revolt in Palestine like they did in South Africa?

April 6, 2012
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Eron Davidson on The Electronic Intifada
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BDS Successes against Corporations: A response to Anshel Pfeffer

On February 22 Anshel Pfeffer, writing about Corporate Watch's recent book Targeting Israeli Apartheid in Ha'aretz, claimed that “while the movement has managed to mobilize thousands of supporters around the world to send online entreaties that convince performers, many of whom see themselves as human-rights activists, to avoid Israel, the corporations and some of the more famous performers who are less exposed to Facebook campaigns, have been impervious.” We feel that this is

Farming Injustice
March 30, 2012
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Corporate Watch
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Finland seeks to hide arms trade with Israel

IN THE midst of an ongoing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) bid in which both of the two finalists are Israeli weapons companies, the Finnish government is pushing forward a bill that would make the details of the Finnish-Israeli arms trade a state secret. The Defence Committee has finished processing the bill and, in all probability, it will pass into law when voted on in the Parliament.

Military Embargo
March 28, 2012
By: 
Bruno Jäntti on HELSINKI TIMES
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Finkelstein, BDS and the destruction of Israel

Contrary to Finkelstein's claim that the BDS movement would lead to the 'destruction' of Israel, one can simply look to Ireland as an example of a lasting two-state solution [GALLO/GETTY]

Chicago, IL - In a recent and highly controversial interview, Norman Finkelstein, long a scourge of Israel, turned his guns on Palestinians

February 28, 2012
By: 
Ali Abunimah on Aljazeera.net
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Against the expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement

Photo: Israeli apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine.

Last fall, the Conservative government announced plans to expand the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA), a set of policies that serves to further legitimize Israeli occupation and apartheid, and deepen Canadian corporate and state involvement in Israeli racism and colonialism.

CIFTA, which took effect in January 1997, covers geographical areas over which Israel

February 10, 2012
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Tadamon