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Activism and BDS Beat

News about popular struggle, international solidarity and boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activism

Open letter to Interpol, Jane's Addiction and Blonde Redhead: Don't play apartheid Israel!

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 17:57
Interpol, Jane’s Addiction and Blonde Redhead are planning on entertaining audiences in Tel Aviv soon. BDS activists are urging them to refuse to collaborate with Israeli apartheid, racism and occupation.

Tuba Skinny cancels show at jazz festival in Israel

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 12:36
Traditional jazz and blues band from New Orleans, Tuba Skinny, cancels show in Israel after requests by BDS groups to honor PACBI’s call for a culturall boycott of Israel.

CEMEX tries to reason away complicity in Israeli violations of international law

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 08:11
In a statement to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in London, CEMEX tries to reason away its complicity in various violations of international law by Israel in the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

BDS activists in Israel stand with Australian counterparts facing repression

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Sat, 08/13/2011 - 01:02
Boycott from Within, a coalition of citizens of Israel, both Palestinian and Jewish, organizing in support of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) issued a statement today expressing their solidarity with Australian BDS activists facing severe state repression.

Irish activists plan protest aimed at Riverdance's upcoming performances in Israel

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 18:29
As part of the ongoing “Don’t Dance for Israeli Apartheid” campaign in Ireland, activists in Dublin are continuing to protest Riverdance’s decision to perform in Israel next month.

Video: Biking for BDS (and other causes)

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 16:42
A new short video documents the journey of a group of community organizers, artists, food growers and cyclists who traveled from London to Palestine by bicycle in 100 days this spring.

Reut Institute: Israeli Boycott law may backfire

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 07:42
The Reut Institute, a Zionist think tank with close ties to the Israeli government and military establishment, predicts Israel’s new anti-boycott law may backfire.

South African students endorse nationwide boycott against Israel

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 23:19
South African student groups denounced the upcoming visit by a delegation of Israeli officials and propagandists to South African universities, and called for the strengthening of the BDS movement across the country.

BDS victory: Veolia loses yet another contract in the UK

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 06:42
“Veolia is paying a high price for its complicity in Israel’s occupation and violations of international law,” stated the Palestine Solidarity Campaign on Wednesday, after the French urban systems corporation lost yet another contract this time in Ealing, London.

African Americans should support Palestinian rights and BDS, interfaith delegation says

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 23:41

Members of the Interfaith Peace Builders’ first African Heritage Delegation to Israel/Palestine have issued a call on African Americans to support the struggle for Palestinian rights, and have declared their support for the Palestinian-led campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel.

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