Yearly Archives: 2011

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Campaign launched against French purchase of Israeli drones

French BDS campaigners have called on their government to abandon a €318 million deal to buy Heron TP drones from Israel Aircraft Industries

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2012 PennBDS National BDS Conference

In February, academics, activists, students and community leaders from across the US will converge on the University of Pennsylvania for the 2012 National BDS Conference

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Veolia Takes Severe Blow As It Fails To Win 485 Million Pound Contract In West London

Human rights campaigners are celebrating after the West London Waste Authority (‘WLWA’) excluded French multinational Veolia from a £485 million contract

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Belgian NGO Vredesactie files complaint against Barco Co. for illegal weapons trade with Israel

Vredesactie filed an official complaint at the Ghent police office against technology company Barco. Barco developed a flight simulator for the Israeli air force, but never requested an export permission, although Belgian legislation on arms trade requires this.

Beit Surik and Stop the Wall thank Rho city council for condeming Pizzarotti for Complicity with Israeli Apartheid

The City Council of Rho recently passed a motion condemning Pizzarotti for its role in a rail line that passes through occupied territory

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Statement by Kairos Palestine on “Buy Israel Week”

Anything but subtle – that sums up the desperate “Buy Israel Week” campaign recently launched by an assortment of anti-Palestinian conglomerates.

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Invitation: Third National BDS Conference

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) cordially invites you to the “Third National BDS Conference” in Hebron, West Bank

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Veolia blows it again through normalization sports event

Supporting a “Race for Peace” is not the way to support peace in the Middle East. A better way for Veolia would be to end immediately its involvement in all Israeli activities in the occupied West Bank

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UK student body slams university’s Ahava link

A collaboration between King’s College London (KCL) and an Israeli company located in an illegal West Bank settlement has been condemned by the UK’s National Union of Students (NUS)

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UK student body slams university’s Ahava link

In the NUS’ National Executive Council meeting, a motion demanding the “immediate end” of KCL’s research project with Ahava was passed with no votes against