Officials at the United Arab Emirates Mission to the UN affirmed their government’s commitment to boycotting the businesses of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev in a meeting Tuesday afternoon with representatives from Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Leviev is attempting to open jewelry stores in the Emirate of Dubai and to sell his diamonds [...]

New York human rights activists, and representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent [...]

Those calling for a boycott of Israel were once distant voices. Now the discussion has gone global. It is growing inexorably and will not be silenced.

Not a single Israeli academic institution complains about these atrocities: High Court has been wrongly besmirched [By Amira Hass, Haaretz]

Punk rebel with a classical cause
Via: Haaretz

“…And today, I was really shocked when I saw the wall here. It’s a new type of apartheid, barbaric behavior. How can you impose collective punishment and divide people from one another? We are all residents of the same planet. I would think that the world learned something from [...]

Via: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

ACTION ALERT
July 25, 2007
Contact: (202) 939-6050

Academic Boycott - Yes or No?

Boycotts, divestments and sanctions are nonviolent methods of protest. Nevertheless, the recent proposal adopted by the UK’s University and Colleges Union congress to just discuss whether it should boycott Israeli academic institutions has caused a furor.

Supporters of [...]

Britain’s Transport and General Workers’ Union has called upon its 800,000 members to boycott Israeli-made products based on what they term Israel’s “criminal policies in Palestinian territories.”

The decision to call for a boycott, reached at a union conference in Brighton, is declarative and does not include concrete steps to implement the boycott.

The TGWU is the [...]

The UK’s largest trade union, UNISON, advocated on Wednesday a total boycott of Israel over its continued occupation of Palestinian territories.

A statement issued by delegates meeting in Brighton read: “The conference believes that ending the occupation demands concerted and sustained pressure upon Israel including an economic, cultural, academic and sporting boycott”.

In addition, delegates [...]

“Just as I campaigned for boycotts against apartheid in South Africa many years ago, now I shall do so against Israeli apartheid,” says Professor Colin Green, University of London.

As in the past, I still work with Israeli humanitarian organisations genuinely seeking justice for the Palestinians. I am no longer prepared to stand idly by [...]

With all due respect to Gila Svirksy, the world would be absolutely right to boycott ALL Israeli products, not only those made in the settlements. A country that doles out cruel and unjust collective punishment day in and day out deserves to be treated in kind. Unfortunately, not buying Israeli wines or sofas will [...]