Analysis, News

Church of England: Dumping Caterpillar

Stuart Littlewood [Palestine Chronicle] – God whispered in the Church of England’s ear and it dumped its shares in Caterpillar. This House of God had about £2.5m invested in a company that manufactures one of Israel’s weapons of mass misery and destruction.

 

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NYU administration thuggishly breaks Palestine-solidarity occupation

Sumoud Political Prisoners Solidarity Group – Today New York University has shown its true face more than ever. Claiming to be a "private university in the public service," it is clearly not even in the service of those students whose tuitions allow it to exist.

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NYU BUILDING TAKEOVER: In Solidarity with Workers' and Palestinian Rights

At approximately 10pm on Feb. 18, students of Take Back NYU! took over the Kimmel Marketplace. They blockaded the doors and declared an occupation!

 

They presented the following demands to the NYU administration:

 

Briefing, Downloads

Palestine: Profiting from Occupation

Israel’s occupation of Palestine is propped up with the help of international corporations and financial institutions. This report profiles a wide array of international and UK-based companies complicit in the occupation and analyses the role of international trade projects in institutionalising the Israeli apartheid regime.

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Israeli Activists Launch Database of Corporations Operating in 1967 Occupied Palestine

*Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?* — *Announcing a new on-line database: www.whoprofits.org*

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Update on AFPS-PLO Lawsuit Against Veolia and Alstom

In February 2007, AFPS brought suit to the Magistrates’ Court of Nanterre against VEOLIA TRANSPORT and ALSTOM seeking to obtain cancellation of the contract for the construction and operation of a light rail system in the West Bank, signed in July 2005 between these two companies and the Israeli government, within the City Pass consor

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Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire Calls for Divestment from Israel

The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire has recently passed a resolution to support the call for divestment from corporations that allow and profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The resolution intends to increase awareness of the companies that actively participate in the oppression of Palestine, and to divest from these companies.

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Bilbao, the Basque Country and Spain Join the Palestinian Campaign for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Targeting Veolia.

By The Alternative Information Center – On 1 November a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, in response to the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, joined

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General Confederation of Trade Unions in Bergen district holds seminar to follow up BDS motion

Among the speakers at the seminar entitled “Boycott of Israel – how and why?” are the former leader of the Norwegian Peoples Aid, Finn Erik Thoresen, who was also active in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, as well as Olav Terje Bergo, who is the editor of Bergensavisen, a local newspaper , that has in the past called for sanctions against Israel.

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Civic Coalition calls for blacklist of corporations supporting the occupation of Jerusalem

A network of seventeen Palestinian human rights NGOs today launched a campaign to mobilize the international community to end Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem.