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Eyewitness to Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre

Eyewitness accounts from the survivors of the flotilla massacre expose the lies in Israeli accounts. It clearly emerges that the Israeli navy started firing even before boarding the Mavi Marmara - they wanted a blood bath. [2010-06-04]

Israeli commandos attack Gaza aid flotilla killing at least 19 - Emergency demo called

Israeli commandos have stormed an international aid flotilla bound for Gaza leaving up to 19 dead in what has been condemned as a "massacre" sparking protests across the world. [London demo today 2pm outside Downing Street] [2010-05-31]

Ride for Palestine - Stop Arming Israel

Motorcycle ride from Southport to London, a distance of over 200 miles, to raise awareness of Palestine and to deliver a petition to Parliament demaning an arms emargo on Israel. [2010-05-21]

Banned by Israel, Chomsky gives W.Bank lecture by video

Preventing him from entering the West Bank to give lecture to Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University was "tantamount to boycotting Bir Zeit University," said Chomsky [2010-05-18]

Elvis Costello cancels concerts in Israel in protest at treatment of Palestinians

Elvis Costello has cancelled two concerts he was scheduled to play in Israel in protest at its treatment of Palestinians. He says 'it is a matter of conscience.. it is also quite impossible to simply look the other way'. [2010-05-18]

Palestinians turn to boycott in West Bank

In Mishor Adumim, a bougainvillea-lined industrial zone inside this West Bank Jewish settlement, at least 17 businesses have closed since Palestinians began boycotting its products several months ago [2010-05-16]

Boycotting the boycotters

Israel has imposed a cultural, academic, political, economic and military boycott on the territories. No one utters a word questioning the legitimacy of these boycotts. Yet the thought of boycotting the boycotter? Now that's inconceivable. [2010-05-16]

Al-Nakba 2010 - We Will Not Forget - London Protest

People protested outside Downing Street in commemoration of Al-Nakba - the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their land. A letter demanding sanctions on Israel was presented to the new Prime Minister. Photo report with video. [2010-05-16]

US funds apartheid road network in Israel

The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for exclusive use of Jewish settlers is being financed by a US government aid agency. [2010-05-14]

Boycott Blues

Israel fears a successful Palestinian boycott of settler goods would catch on elsewhere. While Palestinian consumers lack the economic muscle to inflict much pain on Israel, their counterparts in Europe—Israel's biggest market—have plenty of leverage. [2010-05-13]

Boycott Israel fatwa issued in Jordan

More than 50 Shariah scholars in Jordan issued an advisory opinion (fatwa) in support of an economic boycott of Israel [2010-05-12]

Jordan Union To Fight For Boycott

14 Jordanian Trade Unions started this week a campaign to boycott Israeli products. The campaign is to mark the 62 anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. span class="inOrange"> [2010-05-11]

Egypt and Syria boycott Lieberman

Egypt and Syria to boycott Mediterranean leaders’ conference if Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, attends. [2010-05-11]

OECD slammed for admitting Israel

Palestinians slam the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for offering membership to Israel as complicity in Tel Aviv's war crimes. span class="inOrange">[[2010-05-11]

The Meaning & Importance of Cultural Boycotts

After the bombardment of Gaza by Israel, John Greyson, Naomi Klein and 1,500 others, including myself, signed the ‘Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation’ to protest the Spotlight on Tel Aviv at Toronto International Film Festival.. [2010-05-11]

Hundreds rally over arrest of Israeli-Palestinian human rights activist

Ameer Makhoul, the general director of the Palestinian NGO umbrella group in Israel, Ittijah, one of the key backers of a new Palestinian boycott on settlement goods has been arrested by the Israeli secret police, the Shin Bet. [2010-05-11]

Israeli Companies Liable to Awaken Huge Political Boycott throughout World

Israeli insider article on the dangers of the consumer boycott to Israeli companies and the strategies they must use to fight the boycott. [2010-05-10]

Defying appeal from Gaza students, Atwood set to accept Israeli prize

Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood will accept the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University with its $1 million payout. Meanwhile, 40 miles away, students in the besieged Gaza Strip will stilll be struggling to find the ways and means to continue their educations. span class="inOrange">[2010-05-08]

Israeli Arabs boycott settlement products

Israeli Arabs have launched a wide-ranging boycott of Israeli settlement products in a show of protest against Tel Aviv's ongoing expansion of its illegal West Bank settlements. [2010-05-06]

Countering the soft war

Zionist perspective on perceived threats to Israel from what they call 'the soft war' - essentially BDS and other actions by civil society in the West against apartheid Israel [2010-05-05]

Armatrading: Oppose Apartheid Israel as you would have opposed Apartheid South Africa!

We call on you, as an artist who has been involved in advocacy work on women issues and refugee rights and who has expressed admiration for Nelson Mandela’s struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa, not to turn a blind eye to apartheid in Israel. [2010-05-05]

Fifty-Seven organizations and artists thank Gil Scott-Heron for heeding Palestinian call to boycott Israel

More than 50 organizations and artists from eight countries have written to legendary political singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron to thank him for his decision to drop Israel from his current tour. [2010-05-05]

Israel's secret police vet candidates for imam

Job interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police, a labour tribunal has revealed. [2010-05-05]

Boycott puts the squeeze on Jewish settlers

Settlement products command 15% share of the Palestinian market, worth $600 million. By banning settlement goods, PA hopes to harm settlement economy, and increase market share for domestic goods, currently 18%, hence increase employment. span class="inOrange"> [2010-05-05]

Cosmetics company on settlement withdraws from West Bank

Gush Shalom Settlement Boycott Team remove Israeli cosmetics company Intercosma from its list of settlement products, following confirmation that the company finally left the Atarot Industrial Zone on the West Bank span class="inOrange"> [2010-05-01]

Palestine activists target H&M opening in Brixton

Responding to the Palestinian BNC call for protests against Swedish fashion giant H&M after it opened stores in Israel, activists targeted the opening of a new H&M store in Brixton with protest inside the shop and pickets outside. [2010-04-30]

Gil Scott-Heron boycotts Tel Aviv, sends powerful message to Israelis

An Israeli perspective on poet musician Gil Scott Heron's cancellation of his Tel Aviv show for political reasons. [2010-04-30]

Amitav Ghosh lands in controversy over Israeli literary award

Indian writer Amitav Ghosh to break academic and cultural boycott of Israel for one million dollar Israel prize [2010-04-29]

Palestinian students commit to sweeping Israel boycotts

Palestinian student, youth groups across the West Bank and Gaza signed a memorandum enacting a massive boycott of Israeli products and a halt to activities that could normalize relations between Palestine and Israel. span class="inOrange">[2010-04-28]

Lebanon to boycott Israeli participation in Euro-Mediterranean meetings

Lebanese Parliament Speaker - "If Israel refuses to admit that the Palestinian land is occupied, we refuse to take part in any Euro-Mediterranean meeting it attends, on an Arab land." [2010-04-27]

Gil Scott Heron to boycott Israel?

With official appeals from Palestine and South Africa for Gil Scott Heron not to perform in Israel, and pickets outside his performance in London Gil Scott Heron has announced that he will not perform in Israel until "everyone is welcome there" [2010-04-26]

UK supermarket still selling illegal Israeli goods, says charity

The anti-poverty charity War on Want today accused supermarket retailer Waitrose of misleading customers in its claims to have ceased stocking goods from illegal Israeli settlements. [2010-04-26]

SScottish Trade Unions Call for Boycott of Israel

Scottish Trades Union Congress reaffirm its commitment to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel at its annual meeting. It also condemned Israel’s trade union body, Histadrut, for its support of last year’s attacks on Gaza span class="inOrange"> [[2010-04-24]

PA: Palestinian work in settlements will stop this year

By the end of the year there will be no Palestinians working in Israeli settlements, Ramallah-based Minister of Labor Ahmad Majdalani announced, following a government campaign to boycott settlements products. [2010-04-22]

Arab reps boycott Med student event

Arab students boycott Israeli hosted annual Mediterranean student conference. Itinerary to have included visits to Yad Vashem and "Qassams" at Sderot. [2010-04-21]

El Al sued for racial profiling

Two Palestinian citizens of Israel have won $8,000 in damages from Israel's national carrier, El Al, after a court found that their treatment by the company's security staff at a New York airport had been "abusive and unnecessary." [2010-04-20]

Israel supporters, opponents face off at Berkeley

After UC Berkeley student senate approves bill encouraging university to halt investments to companies that supply Israel with military equipment, student association president vetoes decision. Attempt to override veto fails [2010-04-18]

Gil Scott Heron - Don't play in Tel Aviv

Musician Gil Scott Heron, having previously been an outspoken critic of apartheid South Africa has apparently sold out his principles and is to support racism by performing for apartheid Israel in Tel Aviv on 25th May 2010. [2010-04-18]

After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation

Israeli Foreign Ministry has been granted an extra $2 million to improve Israel’s image through cultural diplomacy, “We will send well-known novelists and writers overseas, theater companies, exhibits - This way you show Israel’s prettier face" [2009-03-18]

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

You support the rebirth of Bantu-stans, albeit in the Middle East. The two-state solution is a racist solution. If you did not accept it for yourselves in South Africa, why force it on Palestinians instead of supporting us as we demand the right to our homeland every single inch of it? span class="inOrange">[2009-09-10]

DDrops in ocean that turned tide

When Vonnie Munroe walked off her job in protest at the Dunnes Stores selling South African goods 20 years ago today, she did not realise that it would cost her her home.. span class="inOrange"> [2004-07-19]

Gaza 2009: The Moment of Truth

Paper delivered by Dr. Haidar Eid via video link at a panel on "Promoting a Culture of Resistance" at the 4th Bil'in International Conference on Grassroots Popular Resistance. [2009-05-08]

Who said nearly 50 years ago that Israel was an Apartheid State?

Ronnie Kasrils: "I want to quote a South African who stated as far back as 1963 that “Israel is an apartheid state.” Those were not the words of Mandela or Tutu but were uttered by the architect of apartheid itself, racist PM Verwoerd" [2010-03-19]

Georgetown University - Student urge divestment from Israel

Student group Georgetown, Divest! presented their case for University divestment from companies that profit from human rights violations in Israel and Palestine. span class="inOrange"> [2010-04-14]

Swedish consumer group urges Israel boycott

A consumer organization in western Sweden with some 350,000 members has called on the country's Coop supermarkets to stop selling all goods from Israel. span class="inOrange">[2010-04-11]

Irish Congress of Trade Unions to seek ways to support sanctions against Israel

The executive council of Irish Congress of Trade Unions is to consider ways in which it can translate into action its support for Palestinian calls for a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. span class="inOrange">[2010-04-17]

An immaculate conception?

The unelected and American-imposed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is pregnant, the progeny of his plan will be the fetus of a a tiny Palestinian "state" that endorses Israel as a "biblical" Jewish state. [2010-04-15]

Smash EDO meets the Weather Underground

Public meeting between the Brighton-based direct action group Smash EDO and Bernadine ohrn, a founding member of the Weather Underground, which waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through the 1970s. [2010-04-16]

The Lewis Trust Group, its donations to Conservative constituency parties, think tanks and Palestinian Media Watch

The Lewis Trust, owners of River Island retail chain of 200+ stores, funds pro-Israel lobbies including Conservative Friends of Israel and the zionist media lobby 'Palestinian Media Watch'. [2010-04-03]

Don't buy settlement goods, says TUC

The British Trade Union Congress are today calling on consumers not to buy goods from illegal Israeli settlements. [2010-04-08]

Singling out Israel is the right thing to do

Palestine group's race harassment case thrown out of court

Alex Salmond calls for Israel trade rethink

Filmmaker Loach urges cultural boycott of Israel

Gaza students call on Margaret Atwood to boycott Israel

The BNC salutes Arizona health professionals standing up for Palestinian human rights

Christian leaders call for 'permits' boycott

URGENT ALERT: Palestine– Write to the Turkish PM Erdogan to veto Israel’s accession to the OECD

Israel: total boycott against total occupation

Egyptian Culture Minister: We will boycott Israeli film

Egyptians quit French film festival over Israeli entry

Israeli West B