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Freeze Flashmob to promote Boycott Israel in Dutch supermarket

If you want to be notified the next time we publish something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Freeze Flash Mob in supermarket in Holland to promote boycott of Israeli products. 'We will not do business as usual with Israel as long as it commits war crimes [...]

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Abunimah and Blankfort on BDS and Chomsky [Podcast]

From Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Khalil Bendidb interview with Ali Abunimah, co-Founder of Electronic Intifada and Middle East analyst and activist Jeff Blankfort in which they will each comment on an interview Voices of the Middle East and North Africa first taped and aired last month with Professor Noam [...]

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Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universities

By Nora Barrows-Friedman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
In 2009, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, became the first American higher educational institution to successfully pressure its Board of Trustees to divest from Israel-tied mutual funds. The victory came three decades after the college similarly disinvested from funds linked to apartheid South Africa. Across North America, student-led [...]

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Omar Barghouti: The Need to Boycott Israel [Video]

Discussion and debate by Omar Barghouti, organizer of PACBI (the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) at the University of Minnesota, 11/2009.
The Need to Boycott Israel (Part 1):

Video link: http://blip.tv/file/2861868

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Rules of human decency apply to Israelis too

A dose of their own (academic) medicine might help the message sink in
By Stuart Littlewood* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Poor Berlanty. What did she do to deserve this crushing blow to her hopes and life chances?
The Israeli High Court has denied her justice – again – and prevented Berlanty Azzam returning to Bethlehem University for [...]

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Attention Christmas Shoppers: Top Ten Brands to Boycott

While there are many Israeli and multinational companies that benefit from apartheid, we put together this list to highlight ten specific companies to target. Many of these produce goods in such a way that directly harms Palestinians — exploiting labor, developing technology for military operations, or supplying equipment for illegal settlements. Many are also the [...]

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No Business as Usual with Apartheid Israel

At Leviev Store, Protesters Tell Business Leaders "No Business as Usual with Apartheid Israel"

New York, NY, December 4, 2009 – 25 New York City human rights advocates caught the Israel Business Leaders Delegation to the United States by surprise this morning with a noisy protest outside their "breakfast reception amidst the Leviev jewelry collection" at [...]

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Adri Nieuwhof – Boycott of Ahava Dead Sea products makes an impact

By Adri Nieuwhof* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
The international campaign to boycott Ahava beauty products has recently won the support of a Dutch parliamentarian and an Israeli peace group. During the past few months, activists in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Israel, the United States and the Netherlands have campaigned against the sale of Ahava products [...]

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The Zionist con game in America

By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Paul J. Balles views the twisted logic and demeaning tone of American Zionists who casually falsify history and dismiss the rights of the Palestinian people in defence of Israel.
Several days ago (9 November 2009), David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, wrote an article for [...]

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A thorn in the world's side

Israel in midst of freefall on global front, yet we're preoccupied with nonsense
By Sever Plocker | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
I've been invited to deliver a lecture about Israel's economy and society at Oxford University. As it is a short lecture, and a respectable forum, I gladly accepted the offer. The invitation was extended about six [...]

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Israeli Settlement Produce Importer Carmel Agrexco Blockaded

On Friday, 6th November, pro-Palestinian activists carried out the first of what was to be three consecutive days of blockading at Carmel Agrexco's depot in Hayes, Middlesex. The action saw a coalition of students from Kings, UCL, SOAS and Goldsmiths, saw members from Anarchists Against the Wall and the International Solidarity Movement as well as [...]

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SIGN PETITION: A Plea to Norway's University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel

SIGN THE PETITION:
http://www.petitiononline.com/boycott9/petition.html
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Famed British Historian Professor Arnold Toynbee
"In the name of justice there cannot be [...]

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It is not easy being racist

By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh *
It is not easy to remain a racist oppressor and it is getting harder to keep deflecting the critics by asking them to focus on nonexistent threats (like Iran). The Human Rights Council accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza and the Israeli government panics and deals with it as a [...]

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LSE Students Disrupt Israeli Foreign Minister Lecture

A few weeks ago, Ehud Barak was given diplomatic immunity 'in emergency' in order to avoid arrest in the UK. Ehud Olmert in turn was heckled and booed by his audience in Chicago and a few hours later by another audience in San Fransisco, where criminal accusations were thrown at him in addition to [...]

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The Nicest and Meanest People

By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh *
We see and meet the nicest people but we also see and meet the meanest people in Palestine. Every day here is an experience in extremes. We contrast an activist for peace in her 20s who speaks many languages with a settler who (joined by other settlers) attacks people picking their [...]

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