This billboard campaign was launched throughout Washington DC. As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) meets for its annual Congressional lobby, the campaign calls for an end to the $30 billion in US military aid promised to Israel over the coming decade.
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The BDS movement explained – by Omar Barghouti
Our opponents call us “Jew haters.” That is a lie and a slander. BDS advocates equal rights for all and consistently opposes all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism. In fact, many progressive Jewish activists, intellectuals, students, feminists and others participate in and sometimes lead BDS campaigns in Western countries. The increasing impact of Israeli supporters of BDS has led the Knesset to pass a draconian anti-boycott law banning advocacy of any boycott against Israel or its complicit institutions.
Lawmakers Threaten Funding of Brooklyn College for Hosting Event on BDS Campaign Against Israel
New York politicians are threatening to cut funding to Brooklyn College if the school hosts a forum Thursday night about the BDS movement. The council members’ threat is just one of several efforts by local lawmakers, from Congress on down, to pressure Brooklyn College to remove its sponsorship or even cancel the event. The school is vowing to proceed with the event.
New Zealand boycott companies of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev
Lev Leviev’s companies have also been accused of involvement in human rights abuses and unethical business practices in the diamond industry in Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Stevie Wonder to sing for Friends of The IDF [Updated]
Stevie Wonder has announced that he will perform at at the annual Gala for Friends of the IDF (FIDF). Maybe he does not know. Maybe the people around him are blind. Maybe he lost his soul.
Richard Falk urges boycott Veolia in London over illegal settlements
Richard Falk has called on the North London Waste Authority to bar Veolia from bidding for public contracts over its involvement with illegal Israeli settlements.
Ireland to advance EU-wide ban of Israeli settlement products
Ireland is planning to utilize its upcoming term as President of the Council of the European Union, which begins on January 1 2013, to advance efforts to achieve a joint decision between all 27 member states to ban products from West Bank Settlements.
Richard Falk Calls for Corporate Israel Boycott including HP, Volvo, Motorola and Caterpillar
Richard Falk singled out 13 companies profit-making in the Israeli settlements including Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Volvo and Caterpillar. Support Boycott!
EU Rewards Apartheid Israel
EU rewards apartheid Israel by adopting a protocol (by 379 vote) between the EC and Israel on Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products.
Action Alert: Gaza, Palestine youth send a message to student
Young Palestinian activists in the Gaza Strip ask their peers in Great Britain and around the world to build the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and attend the UK Student Palestine Conference at the University of Manchester on Sunday, September 23.
Lawsuit aims to punish Olympia Food Co-op for boycott of Israeli goods
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.
Europe Activists campaign against Israeli Agrexco
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.
Israel adopts laws targeting Arab citizens and criminalizing boycott of Jewish settlements
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.
Warning: Boycott Israel success brings ‘Boycott Arab goods’ smear
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.
STL-PSC Flash Mob: Boycott Israeli Apartheid in Palestine! (YouTube Censors the Video)
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!
Jeffrey Goldberg’s Anti-Boycott Bluster & Blunder
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.
Desmond Tutu: We Must Boycott and Isolate Israeli Universities
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 [...]
Eight American Universities Say Yes to Apartheid
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 [...]
The boycott of Israel is “gaining speed”
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 [...]
Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
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 [...]
Another insult to Christianity. Meet the Methodist Friends of Israel – by Stuart Littlewood
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 [...]
Olympia Food Co-op removes Israeli goods from shelves; first US store to institute boycott
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, [...]
To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks – by Terry Crawford-Browne
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 [...]
Civil society in the lead
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 [...]
Boycott Targets Stars From Elvis to Elton
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 [...]
UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process
By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Disappointing, but this shows the immense power that “the Organization” has to overturn popular demand against amazing majority numbers in the face of all reason and “democratic” principle. And, it also illustrates the cupidity, weakness, and failures of moral principles of elected representatives worldwide to stand up [...]
UC Berkeley Speaks Out Against Divestment Bill Veto [Video]
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFv7h_gfAfU April 16, 2010 – Almost one month after the UC Berkeley Student Senate voted 16-4 to divest from General Electric and United technologies because of their complicity in Israeli war crimes the Student Senate meets again to attempt to override a veto by President Will Smelko. The Meeting ended with the senate [...]
ACTION ALERT: Write against issuing Canada-Israel stamp
On April 14th, Canada will be issuing a “Canada-Israel Diplomatic Relations” commemorative stamp to celebrate 60 years of relations. In light of on-going occupation, policies of racial segregation and war-crimes against the Palestinian people, we ask what is there to celebrate? Please take a minute to send the following message to John Baird (baird.j@parl.gc.ca), the [...]
Richard Falk Salute UC Berkeley Divestment
April 13, 2010 To the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC): I am writing to encourage renewed support for Senate Bill 118A (“A Bill in Support of ASUC Divestment from War Crimes”), including the override of ASUC President Will Smelko’s veto on March 24, 2010. The earlier passage of [...]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university’s money from companies that enable and profit from the [...]
An Open Letter to Margaret Atwood from Gaza: Don’t Stand on the Wrong Side of History
Besieged Gaza, Palestine April.4.2010 Dear Ms. Atwood, We are students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children, our parents. Many of [...]
Total Boycott Against Total Occupation
By Antoine Raffoul* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In an Opinion submitted to the Electronic Intifada on 4 March 2010 entitled: Moment of Truth, Rifat Kassis rightly asks: what does ‘boycott’ mean, how far does it go, and what does it call for? We, at 1948: Lest We Forget, wish to respond to any call [...]
Freeze Flashmob to promote Boycott Israel in Dutch supermarket
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 and doesn’t comply with international law.’ Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoLuicl3UF0 It was a busy Thursday night on the 28th of January in the big supermarket Albert Heijn [...]
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 Chomsky of [...]
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, [...]
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