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BDS proposal wins big at Occupy Oakland

Submitted by nora on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 06:35
A resolution to support the BDS movement was passed in a near-unanimous vote at Occupy Oakland’s general assembly on Wednesday evening.

Protesters attacked, injured during commemoration for Palestinian teen murdered by Israeli settlers

Submitted by nora on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 18:58
During a demonstration on Tuesday to demand justice for the killing of 17-year-old Yousef Ikhlayl by Israeli settlers last year in Beit Ommar, Israeli soldiers beat protesters with clubs and attacked the crowd with sound bombs and tear gas.

BDS roundup: Scholars' delegation to Palestine, UK museum slammed for links to Ahava

Submitted by nora on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 23:55
Academic scholars visit Palestine on a fact-finding mission and urge their colleagues to join the academic boycott of Israel; London’s Museum of Natural History criticized for its links with settlement industry Ahava; and more.

Leading LGBT activists, artists and cultural workers: oppose pinkwashing and support BDS

Submitted by nora on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 01:26
Leading queer voices write an impassioned statement and open petition calling for solidarity with Palestinians under occupation and oppression, expanded support of the BDS movement, and a rejection of Israel’s pinkwashing campaigns.

Open letter to Moldovan punk band Zdob si Zdub: Stand in solidarity with Palestinians!

Submitted by nora on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 20:06
Punks Against Apartheid, the punk rock collective working to educate and mobilize musicians and fans in support of the BDS movement, has posted an open letter to Moldovan hardcore band Zdob si Zdub encouraging them to cancel their show in Tel Aviv and respect the global boycott call.

Video of MLK Day protest outside Combined Systems, Inc., in Pennsylvania

Submitted by nora on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 18:13
Reports from yesterday’s protest outside the headquarters of US weapons maker Combined Systems, Inc., which produces tear gas canisters that have killed and injured Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

MLK Day protest at weapons manufacturing company

Submitted by nora on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 21:56
Activists in Pennsylvania hold a protest outside the headquarters of Combined Systems, Inc., the company that manufactures lethal tear gas canisters used against people from Palestine to Oakland. Adalah-NY has a full-length report on CSI and its domestic and international contracts.

Badil center for residency and refugee rights' response to Israel's racist "citizenship law"

Submitted by nora on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 20:16
Badil center responds to the Israeli high court’s rejection of a challenge to the racist “citizenship law”: “This illustrates once more the Israeli self portrait as an exclusively Jewish state with a different set of rights for its Jewish and non-Jewish (mainly Palestinian) inhabitants.”

BDS roundup: a new year, and new boycott campaigns ahead

Submitted by nora on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 18:55
US boycott campaigners encourage colleagues to refuse complicity with Cornell University’s partnership with Israel’s Technion Institute, Veolia loses yet another contract in London, dozens of musicians refused to perform in Israel in 2011 while the cultural boycott campaign gears up for a new year, and more.

BDS news: Europeans, Moroccans urge Jane Birkin to respect boycott call

Submitted by nora on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 00:30
Boycott activists to French singer-actress Jane Birkin: there is “no balance” with apartheid.

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