Press Releases, Statements

Seizing on Agrexco’s financial woes, campaigners vow to eject Israeli exporter from Europe

Occupied Palestine- Facing a bankruptcy hearing in a Tel Aviv court Tuesday, Israeli export company Agrexco has been beset by bad headlines in recent months. Now its problems look set to worsen, after Palestinian solidarity groups from across Europe joined forces to escalate a boycott campaign.

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Canadian activists respond to MPs committee report “CPCCA, campuses and criminializing criticism of Israel”

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Faculty For Palestine Op-Ed in the National Post: “CPCCA, campuses and criminalizing criticism of Israel”: Report on anti-Semitic seeks only to protect Israel.

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Canadian activists respond to MPs committee report "CPCCA, campuses and criminializing criticism of Israel"

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Faculty For Palestine Op-Ed in the National Post: “CPCCA, campuses and criminalizing criticism of Israel”: Report on anti-Semitic seeks only to protect Israel.

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Normalizing Israeli apartheid through international sporting events

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Young people are being used as political pawns to mischaracterize Israeli apartheid and colonization as a symmetric conflict between two nations and cultures

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TIAA-CREF should hear us, divest from Israeli apartheid

As shareholders with the retirement giant TIAA-CREF head to Charlotte this week for their national meeting, there is one issue they will find conspicuously absent from the agenda: divestment from the Israeli Occupation.

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Call for Papers: BDS as a Means of Enforcing International Law in Palestine

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The Theme of Volume XVII of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law is “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a Means of Enforcing International Law in Palestine”.

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ISRAEL ANTI-BOYCOTT LAW AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

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Amnesty: A law passed by the Israeli Knesset making it an offence to call for a boycott of Israel or its WB settlements will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in Israel.

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Irish Congress of Trade Unions Maintains Commitment to BDS and Moves Policy Forward

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At its Biennial Delegate Conference this week in Killarney the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, demonstrated its continued commitment to Palestinian solidarity and BDS campaign.

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Queers Against Israeli Apartheid drops a banner during Toronto Pride

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At Toronto Pride today, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) dropped a banner reading “Support Palestinian Queers–Boycott Israeli Tourism”

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United Church Presbytery Group Launches Boycott Divestment Campaign against Israel

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The Holy Land Awareness and Action Task Group, of the Social Justice and World Affairs Committee within South West Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, has launched Occupied with Peace in Palestine, a Boycott/Divestment Campaign.