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Posts Tagged ‘BDS’

No Motion in Norway's Academic Ocean: they didn't even flip through the boycott motion text

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Education, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Last week might have been a week when history was made. There would have been a precedent set that would from that point onwards made a change in very many ways, one comparable to fulfilling the request the ANC made in South Africa. At first, the ANC request was seen as merely symbolic, [...]

Haidar Eid – An Open letter to Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa

By Guest Post • Sep 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

(in the photo: People in Johannesburg March in Solidarity with Palestine.) Dear Mr. President,
I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies – a racist organization by any standards – as well as the content of your speech at [...]

Jeff Blankfort – Uri Avnery's rationalising Israel's dispossession of the Palestinians

By Guest Post • Sep 5th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Recently, Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom leader and "darling" of the left-Zionists, has been writing quite a bit more frequently some pieces that ask folks to not renounce the Zionist "dream" and has decided to add his two bits to the Palestinian call to Boycott Israel, standing firmly against said Boycott. Jeff Blankfort, writer, journalist and radio [...]

Faris Giacaman – Can we talk? The Middle East "peace industry"

By Guest Post • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Education, Ideas and Projects, Interviews, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote "coexistence" and "dialogue" between both sides of the "conflict," no doubt expecting me to give a nod of approval. However, these efforts are [...]

Ronnie Kasrils – The Other Apartheid State

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

Address by Ronnie Kasrils: CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: RE-ENVISIONING ISRAEL/PALESTINE 12 JUNE 2009

May I start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1961 that “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel like South Africa, is an apartheid state” (Rand [...]

Palestinian United Call for BDS against Israel

By Mary Rizzo • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Documents, Education, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance

Click here for language versions: Arabic, Spanish, Italian, French, Hebrew, German
See list of endorsements as of 9 July 2008
See list of individuals
See list of organisations
SIGN!!!
One year after the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which found Israel's Wall built on occupied Palestinian territory to be illegal; Israel continues its construction of [...]