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Posts Tagged ‘Boycott’

Boycott "Israel": Ann Arbor takes it to City Hall!

By Guest Post • Aug 22nd, 2009 • Category: Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, Zionism

Just to show that people can (and should) get these issues having to do with public money and policy in the discussion at the decisional level, we have the video of the short talk given at the Ann Arbor (Michigan) City Council Meeting. It should serve as an example of ways to act and influence [...]



cartoon of the day

By Guest Post • Apr 10th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day

By Ursula http://urs1798.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/israels-kriegtourismus/
click to enlarge



Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and… Prosecutions

By Guest Post • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN By Stephen Lendman
Enough is enough. After 61 years of Palestinian slaughter, displacement,
occupation, oppression, and international dismissiveness and complicity, global action is essential. Israel must be held accountable. World leaders won't do it, so grassroots movements must lead the way.
 
In 2004, Archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote:
"The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – Valentine's Day Arrived in Gaza Earlier This Year

By Iqbal Tamimi • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

 
Sure it was red all over Gaza this year, and earlier than any other country in the world, blood red, not rose red.
 
The Independent published an article today entitled Israel allows Valentine carnations out of Gaza. The Independent reporter described Israel’s allowing 25,000 carnations to cross the border in the first exports permitted from blockaded [...]



Petition in support of UN General Assembly President to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel

By Haitham Sabbah • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions

Petition in support of call by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’escoto Brockmann for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/?e
During the 57th Plenary Meeting on the Question of Palestine, President of the General Assembly Miguel D'escoto Brockmann broke a diplomatic taboo by describing Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as similar to those [...]



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 [...]



Narratives Under Siege: Gaza's 700 Stranded Students

By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Education, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

Hadeel Abu Kwaik is one of 7 students whose Fulbright scholarships were recently withdrawn, then swiftly reinstated by the US State Dept. But almost 700 other students remain stranded in Gaza

Few days ago, on 1 June, Hadeel Abu Kwaik was sitting in her computer lab at Al-Azhar University in Gaza looking worried, and perplexed. Today, [...]



فلسطين ونيويورك تناشدان دبي مقاطعة مجوهرات ليڤايڤ لدعمها للمستوطنات الإسرائيلية

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Palestine, Zionism

المتحدثين الإعلاميين:
عدالة-نيويورك: عيسى أيوب(الولايات المتحدة) ، يهود ضد الاحتلال-نيويورك: دانييل لانغ-ليڤتسكي (الولايات المتحدة) ، قرية بلعين في الضفة الغربية: عبدالله أبو رحمة ، قرية جيّوس في الضفة الغربية: شريف عمر

نيويورك، 18 نيسان—ناشد ناشطو حقوق الإنسان في نيويورك وممثلون عن القريتين الفلسطينيتين، بلعين وجيّوس، حكومة وشعب الإمارات العربية المتحدة مقاطعة محلات المجوهرات التي يملكها الملياردير [...]



Call on Dubai to boycott Leviev's stores over Israel settlements

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism

New York human rights activists, and representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil'in and Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies' construction of Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent [...]