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Success for the BDS French Campaign's third national weekend of training and debates

The third national weekend of training and debates organised by the BDS French Campaign and held in Lyons on 14 and 15 January 2012 was highly successful.

More than 100 activists came from all over France to share their experiences and exchange their views on different aspects of the campaign.

The French campaign's successful operations against the Israeli firm AGREXCO, which had been designated as our priority target last year, were underlined.  The citizens' actions  and demonstrations played a decisive role in the legal liquidation of the company, which re

Farming Injustice
January 15, 2012
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BDS French Campaign
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Report: Third National BDS Conference, Hebron, December 17

On 17 December 2011, Palestinians gathered in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank for the Third National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions  (BDS) Conference.

Trade union solidarity
January 9, 2012
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Conference team
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Statement by Kairos Palestine on “Buy Israel Week”

A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel

Statement by Kairos Palestine on

“Buy Israel Week”

December 17, 2011
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Kairos Palestine
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Rho City Council approves resolution condemning Pizzarotti

The City Council of Rho, in the province of Milan, approved a resolution expressing "moral and political condemnation of Pizzarotti & C. S.p.A. for its participation in the project for the construction of the A1 Jerusalem - Tel Aviv railway".

Pizzarotti is a contractor for the Israeli project for the new A1 high-speed railway that will connect Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
November 30, 2011
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Italian Coalition Stop That Train
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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), in a significant boost for campaigners.

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

The NEC motion, noting the “overwhelming” international position on the illegality of Israeli settlements, states that “by collaborating with Ahava, King’s itself has become

November 30, 2011
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Ben White on Electronic Intifada
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Interview: Why is concert promoter suing Lebanon boycott activists?

Grafitti in Beirut in support of boycotting companies profiting from the Israeli occupation.(Katrine Syppli Kohl/Flickr)

Lebanese concert promoter Jihad el-Murr recently filed a lawsuit against four groups over a boycott campaign they organized against the

November 18, 2011
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Maureen Clare Murphy on The Electronic Intifada
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UNESCO distances itself from Israeli government youth conference

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society struggling to uphold Palestinian rights, recently discovered that the Israeli Ministry of Education was claiming to be organizing a youth conference in Jerusalem “in cooperation with UNESCO (United Nations),” as the Ministry’s website claims.

November 18, 2011
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
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Palestinian Freedom Riders to Board Settler Buses to Jerusalem

Palestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement's Freedom Rides to the U.S.

November 14, 2011
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Palestinian Freedom Rides
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The Russell Tribunal On Palestine: Summary Of Findings

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil society (NGOs, charities, unions, faith-based organisations) to educate public opinion and put pressure on decision makers.

November 10, 2011
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Al-Haq
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IRISH SHIP TO GAZA CALLS ON THE IRISH GOVERNMENT TO TAKE CONCRETE ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL

Press release: Following the events of yesterday, and the continuing refusal of the Israeli government to comply with international law, the Irish Ship to Gaza campaign is now calling on the Irish government to take the following concrete actions against the state of Israel:

(1) Suspend Israel from the Euromed Agreement, which gives Israel special trading status;

(2) End all arms trade with Israel;

(3) Take steps to ensure that no Irish state-funded institution engages in any cultural, academic, or economic cooperation with the state

November 5, 2011
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By Irish Ship to Gaza