Results for: Boycott

Analysis

Shir Hever [Alternative Information Center (AIC)] -  In recent years, there has been a gradual growth in the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, calling to put economic pressure on Israel until it recognizes the rights of the occupied Palestinian people and puts an end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

March 6, 2009
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The Peace Cycle (www.thepeacecycle.com) will cycle from the International Courts of Justice in the Hague to the European Parliament in Brussels, to hand-deliver this petition to the European Parliament on 31 March 2009.  

March 6, 2009
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New York, NY, March 4 – The government of the United Kingdom has decided to boycott Israeli diamond and real estate mogul Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz Daily today.

 

 

March 4, 2009
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March 2nd – March 8th 2009
Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Jericho, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Tubas
For a detailed list of events, please see: http://apartheidweek.org

 

BDS National Committee (BNC), Occupied Palestine, 26 February 2009 – The fifth international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) – occurring in over 40 cities in Palestine and worldwide – will be held across the West Bank from 2-8 March 2009.

March 3, 2009
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The 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week is now taking place across the globe from March 1-8, 2009!

Click here to go to the Israeli Apartheid Week Website (www.apartheidweek.org)

March 3, 2009
Analysis

Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, February 28th, 2009 -- The Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, which has now claimed more
than 1,400 lives, generated serious popular backlash the world over.

 

March 2, 2009
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Lisa Jones [Wales Online] 27 February 2009 - A THREE-DAY sit-in by students protesting against their university’s investment in major arms companies has ended.

Cardiff Students Against War yesterday finished its occupation of the Shandon Lecture Theatre in Cardiff University’s main building on Park Place after bosses agreed to pull funds out of two companies.

March 2, 2009
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By Nathan Karnovsky [Bi-College News] 24 February 2009 - “Do you notice that, even among educated people, there is general recognition of the fact that the modern state of Israel was founded as a symbol of the suffering of humanity…but almost no awareness that this has been at the expense of another people who were innocent of guilt?”


These are the words of Harry Saul, a member of Haverford College’s Class of 1972.

February 25, 2009
Analysis

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.

 

February 23, 2009
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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.

 

February 23, 2009