Presbyterians in South East US call for divestment
Last week the Presbyterian Church (USA) published a report containing a resolution recommending that the Presbyterian Church divest from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions for their...
View ArticleDavid Finkel: The UN and the future of Palestine
The responsibility of the solidarity movement ... is not to get caught up in wonkish or wishful “one-versus-two-state” disputations, but to do everything we can to advance the bottom-up struggle where...
View ArticleFinkelstein highlights international law as powerful weapon for boycott
Professor Norman Finkelstein stormed UK campuses in November, lecturing to packed auditoriums in London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham on How to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict.
View ArticleLia Tarachansky: Palestinian “Freedom Riders” challenge segregation
On Tuesday six Palestinian activists boarded Israeli buses in an attempt to challenge the system of segregation in the West Bank. They were arrested at Hizmeh checkpoint, interrogated by Israel's...
View ArticleWho Profits: Veolia owns, operates Tovlan landfill in OPT for Israeli waste
Veolia is not only still involved in the illegal Israeli tram project connecting Israeli's colonies to Jerusalem, it also owns and operates (through its subsidiaries), the infamous Tovlan landfill...
View ArticleJewish Voice for Peace statement on BDS
JVP has grown dramatically in size and influence in the past two years. As part of the ongoing assessment sparked by this growth, JVP reviewed its BDS policy. On the basis of an organization-wide...
View ArticleAli Abunimah: Finkelstein, BDS and the ‘destruction of Israel’
Norman Finkelstein: "They don't want Israel... They think they're being very clever. They call it their three tiers... We want the end of the occupation, we want the right of return, and we want equal...
View ArticleDismay at Globe invitation to Israeli theatre
We notice with dismay and regret that Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London has invited Israel's National Theatre, Habima, to perform The Merchant of Venice in its Globe to Globe festival this coming...
View ArticleRamzy Baroud: Who owns the Palestine solidarity movement?
Not a political organisation per se, the BDS is rather a manifestation of numerous collectives in uncountable cities and towns around the world. The decentralisation of the BDS is one of its greatest...
View ArticleUMASS Boston Student Senate passes resolution calling for divestment from Boing
The UMass Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the UMass Foundation, the university’s investment fund, divest from Boeing and other companies profiting from...
View ArticleDisney family member renounces her investments in Israel’s Ahava Cosmetics
Abigail Disney: "Recent evidence from the Israeli Civil Administration documents that Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories sources mud used in its products from the occupied shores of the Dead Sea, which is in...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: Reflections on a lifetime of engagement with Zionism, the...
Mouin Rabbani: Many of those who favor a one-state solution see it as the antithesis of the two-state solution, yet you seem to be suggesting a continuum. Noam Chomsky: I don’t know of any other...
View ArticleVote for G4S in the worst company of the year awards
G4S is up for the Public Eye People’s Award 2013, the ‘name and shame’ award no company wants to win. G4S, the world’s largest private military and security company, is complicit in Israel’s occupation...
View ArticleBoycott resolution passed by York University’s undergraduate student union
The resolution demands that the university administration “abides by the BDS call” and urges York to “withdraw its investments from Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Amphenol and other companies that are...
View ArticleIain Banks: Why I’m supporting a cultural boycott of Israel
I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign because, especially in our instantly connected world, an injustice committed against one, or against one group of people, is an injustice...
View ArticleAPJP: Petition to Eduardo Souto de Moura to reject the Wolf Prize for...
[W]e were saddened to hear that you have been awarded the 2013 Israeli Wolf Prize for Architecture, not because you are not deserving of such awards, but that it is being offered to you by the Israeli...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Israeli football, racism and politics – the ugly side of the...
Israel’s increasing integration into European competitions, despite its refusal to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, respect human rights and halt illegal settlement, is, according to critics,...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott
Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open...
View ArticleStephen Hawking letter: Some facts on Israel and Palestine
In our letter to you we make reference to a range of aspects of Israel’s treatment of Palestine and the Palestinians. Our descriptions there are necessarily abbreviated, and this note provides a little...
View ArticleLetter sent to Prof. Stephen Hawking
The following letter was sent to Stephen Hawking by 20 scientists urging him to reconsider his participation, as a keynote speaker, at Israel's Presidential Conference, a major public event attracting...
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