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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
BNC Responds to UN Head's Resignation Over Israel Apartheid Report
March 17, 2017 - Earlier today, Dr. Rima Khalaf, Director of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA...
New UN Report Confirms Israel is an “Apartheid” State, Calls for BDS
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, has warmly welcomed as a “historic breakthrough” a report...
First Ever Italian Student Council Approves Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
On March 1, 2017, the Student Council of the University of Turin approved by wide majority (76%) a motion (text below) supporting the...
FIFA Slammed by Human Rights Defenders for Failure to Expel Israeli Football Clubs Based in Illegal Settlements
A wide coalition of Palestinian and international organisations denounced FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s failure to compel Israel’s national...
“Racism and Racial Discrimination are the Antithesis of Freedom, Justice & Equality”
The global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for freedom, justice and equality of the Palestinian people is an inclusive, nonviolent...
Palestinians urge Richard Gere to cancel appearance at Jerusalem movie premiere
"We call on creative writers and artists to support our Palestinian and Israeli colleagues by endorsing the boycott call. ...Don’t visit, exhibit or...
Radiohead: Do not lend your voice and art to oppression
Dear Radiohead, cc: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, and Phil Selway Re: Your July concert in Tel Aviv Do...
Israel and Palestine: Settler colonialism and academic freedom
In the last ten years, an old scholarly paradigm that was used for the historical analysis of European settler movements in various parts of the...
UK Academics support free speech on Israel
The spike in far-right antisemitic incidents on UK campuses that you report (UK universities urged to act over spate of antisemitic stickers and...
Why Hollywood has abandoned Brand Israel
As Israel moves ever more dangerously rightward - evidenced by the latest law legalising the state's expropriation of private...