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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.
Israeli settlements also face pressure from within
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Israeli government takes credit for ABP decision not to divest - but is it telling the truth?
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Dutch association publishes advice on OPT for increasingly concerned investors
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BDS: a battle Israel cannot win
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US BDS activism reaches the third rail
Heike Schotten is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches political theory, feminist...
How Europe funds the occupation of Palestine
Gaza children paint a mural against a siege that the EU helps to finance. (Mohammed Asad / APA images) Has the European Union finally confessed...
Advocating for Palestinian Rights in Conformity with International Law: Guidelines
An outcome document of the conference “Law and Politics: Options and Strategies in International Law for the Palestinian People”, Birzeit...
Israel’s discriminatory system of ethnic privilege is the real threat to academic freedom
As a result of the discriminatory system of ethnic privilege that Israel has instituted in the territories that it controls between the Jordan River...
The National Lawyers Guild and other Rights Groups Call on Universities to Protect Open Debate on Palestine/Israel
New York - The National Lawyers Guild and other organizations calling for human rights and for the rule of law in Palestine and Israel today urged ...
The Economist warns Israel of growing strength of BDS
ONCE derided as the scheming of crackpots, the campaign for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel, widely known as BDS, is turning...