Boycott

Lawsuit aims to punish Olympia Food Co-op for boycott of Israeli goods

by Haitham Sabbah September 10, 2011

Olympia Food Co-op: We can assure you that this lawsuit will not diminish our commitment to the rule of law and universal human rights for all people.

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Europe Activists campaign against Israeli Agrexco

by SR Editor June 15, 2011

EU activists from 9 countries gathered against Agrexco (Israel’s largest fresh produce exporter). European markets account for the vast majority of their sales under the brand Carmel. Vegetables grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

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Israel adopts laws targeting Arab citizens and criminalizing boycott of Jewish settlements

by Uri Avnery March 28, 2011

Uri Avnery views three laws recently adopted by the Israeli parliament: “two obnoxious racist laws… clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens”, and a third law that will punish “any person or association publicly calling for a boycott of Israel” or the illegal Jewish settlements.

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Warning: Boycott Israel success brings ‘Boycott Arab goods’ smear

by Stuart Littlewood March 5, 2011

Stuart Littlewood reports on a cheap disinformation ploy employed lately by Israeli “cyber warriors” unhinged by the success of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Jewish apartheid state.

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STL-PSC Flash Mob: Boycott Israeli Apartheid in Palestine! (YouTube Censors the Video)

by Haitham Sabbah December 25, 2010

I’ve lived in the West Bank for a few years and visited several times, and every time I go back, with every airport interrogation or checkpoint I get stopped at, I feel only a sliver of the degradation of what the Palestinians permanently living there have to go through. It was also important for us to show that there are ways to non-violently resist that occupation. Plus, I like to sing and dance!

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Jeffrey Goldberg’s Anti-Boycott Bluster & Blunder

by Nima Shirazi December 25, 2010

Clearly, Zionist opposition to morally-justifiable boycott – in service of its ethnocentric ideology – is nothing new. But as history has shown, boycotts can succeed despite libelous opposition and propaganda – it just takes time.

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Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities

by SR Editor September 26, 2010

The University of Johannesburg’s Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university’s active support for and involvement in the Israeli military. Archbishop Desmond Tutu supports the move. He explains why. By Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Sabbah [...]

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Eight American Universities Say Yes to Apartheid

by Lawrence Davidson September 26, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A letter from Gaza appeared on the Web dated September 24, 2010. It was from a group of Gaza academics and students and sought to publicize the fact that eight American universities have recently signed agreements with various Israeli universities to offer U.S. students free semester long [...]

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The boycott of Israel is “gaining speed”

by Lawrence Davidson September 9, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz On 5 September 2010 the Israel newspaper Ha’aretz published an article the headline of which read ‘Anti-Israel economic boycotts are gaining speed’. The subtitle went on to state that “the sums involved are not large, but their international significance is huge”. Actually, what seems to have triggered [...]

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Global BDS Against Israel Is Working

by Stephen Lendman September 9, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the Global BDS movement for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights” for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian diaspora refugees. The Tel Aviv-based [...]

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Another insult to Christianity. Meet the Methodist Friends of Israel – by Stuart Littlewood

by Stuart Littlewood August 15, 2010

By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A few weeks ago the Methodist Church’s annual conference did a very courageous and praiseworthy thing. It voted to boycott products from Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine, regarded as illegal under international law, and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same. “The decision is a [...]

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Olympia Food Co-op removes Israeli goods from shelves; first US store to institute boycott

by Haitham Sabbah July 20, 2010

K6S2MA9DFMEQ Olympia, WA– The Olympia Food Co-op Board of Directors has decided to boycott Israeli goods at their two locations in Olympia, Washington. At a July 15th meeting packed with Co-op members, the Board reached this consensus. The Co-op becomes the first US grocery store to publicly join the international grassroots movement for boycott, divestment, [...]

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To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks – by Terry Crawford-Browne

by SR Editor July 3, 2010

By Terry Crawford-Browne* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country’s apartheid system. The campaign culminated in President FW de Klerk’s announcement in February 1990, releasing Nelson [...]

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Civil society in the lead

by Sam Bahour May 24, 2010

By Sam Bahour* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When politicians face failure what do they do? Step down? No way. Not in Palestine at least. Over and over again the Palestinian leadership has hit a cement wall (no pun intended) in its attempts to lead the Palestinian people to freedom and independence. And with every [...]

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Boycott Targets Stars From Elvis to Elton

by SR Editor May 22, 2010

By Nathan Guttman Washington – It was a feather in the cap of pro-boycott activists, but for Israelis, a major setback. With battle lines drawn across concert halls and stadiums hosting rock bands, the decision by mega-star Elvis Costello to cancel his planned concerts in Israel is being viewed as a game changer. In a [...]

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