A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement. Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine | Al Jazeera Opinion |13 Aug 2011 15:45 French activists demonstrate in solidarity with Palestini…
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#BDS | Boycott rally held in Jenin
Maan News Agency Published today 17:33 JENIN (Ma’an) — Activists in Jenin held a rally Saturday urging shopkeepers and residents to boycott Israeli goods. The local campaign against the wall and settlements and the Independent Youth Movemen…
Jamal Juma’: PA “killing popular resistance”
Ida Audeh |The Electronic Intifada |Ramallah |8 August 2011 Popular resistance has prevented the completion of Israel’s wall in the occupied West Bank. (Anne Paq /ActiveStills ) Few Palestinians are as closely identified with the str…
Australia’s repression of BDS movement coordinated with Israel
Kim Bullimore |The Electronic Intifada |Melbourne |9 August 2011 Australian solidarity activists are facing intense police repression. (Erik Anderson /Flickr ) In the largest show of support for the Palestinian-initiated boycott, dives…
PRESS RELEASE | Veolia, major target of Palestinian BDS campaign, in financial crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Aug 8 2011 | BDSmovement.net French multinational Veolia to cut back global operations after €67.2 million losses BDS campaign has cost Veolia large contracts across Europe over its illegal Israel project Loss…
NON A L’APARTHEID ! BOYCOTT DES PRODUITS ISRAELIENS ! | Paris – France Aug 6, 2011- Video
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Veolia loses another contract | We Divest
Another lost contract. This time in Ealing Council, London. Here’s the release from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Veolia continues to pay a high price for aiding Israel’s occupation, as it loses yet another contract Wednesday 3rd August…
In Solidarity with @ibnezra “Israel’s ‘anti-boycott’ law hurts the country’s journalists”
Since 600BC (Athens’ democratic ideology of free speech) civilization talks about Free Speech. Israel killed it on a mondayevening, while free speech is an absolute condition even for a political debate and definitly for any country calling itself …
Royal #BDS | Jordan’s King Abdullah II refuses to meet Netanyahu
Thursday, 28 July 2011 14:20| MEMO According to reports by a Kuwaiti daily made on Wednesday, July 27, King Abdullah II of Jordan recently declined a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. ‘Well informed’…
Palestine’s Norwegians
Marxist-Multiculturalists for BDS By VIJAY PRASHAD | Counterpunch | July 25, 2011 Sitting on an Amtrak train from New Haven to Washington, DC on Friday, I was enjoying my thriller, Kjell Ola Dahl’s The Man in the Window. Dahl’s po…
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid Issues Press Release Condemning New “Boycott Law”
PNN – Palestine News Network – 20.07.11 – 14:38 Bethlehem – PNN – The Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid has issued a press release explaining the consequences of the new boycott law passed in the Israeli Knesset last week. PNN A…
Israeli human rights group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel calls for civil disobedience in face of anti-boycott bill
Physicians for Human Rights Israel | July 19, 2011 Passed by the Knesset on July 11, 2011, the “Bill to Prevent Harm to the State of Israel by Means of Boycott” constitutes a harmful blow to egalitarianism, free speech, and the right t…
Bad Hair Days and Boycotts: Water Distribution and Settlement Goods in the West Bank
PNN – Palestine News Network - 18.07.11 – 10:54 PNN Exclusive / By Emily L. - My hair was inexplicable, and I was late for work. Perhaps from the heat, instead of falling sleekly about my shoulders, my hair had formed a huge …
The Murder of Non-jews and The Israeli Law Against Boycott
July 17, 2011 | Kawther Salam Some days ago the israeli knesset passed into law a bill sponsored by the extremists from the „Israeli Beitenu“ and „Likud“ factions, among them one Ze’ev Elkin and one David Rotem, which makes it „illeg…
Barghouthi: Pro-Palestinian activists have fulfilled purpose
[ 17/07/2011 - 10:49 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian MP Mustafa al-Barghouthi, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said the international pro-Palestinian campaign achieved more than it set out to, despite measures Israel took to preven…