divestment

The Thin Green Line: It’s Not Just the Settlements (or the Occupation), Stupid!

by Nima Shirazi September 14, 2010

By Nima Shirazi* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived…We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.” – [...]

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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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UC Berkeley Vote: A travesty of the “Democratic” process

by Debbie Menon May 2, 2010

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 [...]

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UC Berkeley Speaks Out Against Divestment Bill Veto [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah April 17, 2010

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 [...]

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ACTION ALERT: Write against issuing Canada-Israel stamp

by Haitham Sabbah April 15, 2010

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 [...]

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Richard Falk Salute UC Berkeley Divestment

by Richard Falk April 14, 2010

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 [...]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do

by Haitham Sabbah April 11, 2010

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 [...]

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The necessity of cultural boycott

by SR Editor June 24, 2009

By Ilan Pappe * If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological [...]

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Petition in support of UN General Assembly President to boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2008

Petition in support of call by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel D’escoto Brockmann for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/IJAN_Brockmann_BDS/?e During the 57th Plenary Meeting on the Question of Palestine, President of the General Assembly Miguel D’escoto Brockmann broke a diplomatic taboo by describing Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as similar [...]

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