BDS

The Electronic Intifada Weekly Podcast - 24 May 2012

This week’s podcast includes several reports of home and property demolitions by Israeli forces against West Bank Palestinians as well as Palestinians with Israeli citizenship; an interview with BDS organizer and activist Nada Elia; and more!

"Art is a hammer to shape reality": PalFest breaks the siege of Gaza

Ayah Bashir
Gaza City
23 May 2012

For years, PalFest has been trying to break Israel’s cultural siege on the Gaza Strip.

BDS roundup: South Africa and Denmark to correctly label Israeli settlement products

South Africa and Denmark make historic rulings to correctly label Israeli settlement products; and international Quaker churches fully divest from the Caterpillar corporation.

UK student union to support campus boycott initiatives

The National Union of Student’s (NUS) National Executive Council has unanimously adopted a proposal mandating the body to work with local Student Unions to lobby universities to cancel contracts with Eden Springs.

"We must sustain hunger strike solidarity," says leading prisoner rights campaigner

Nora Barrows-Friedman
Berkeley
18 May 2012

Sahar Francis, director of Addameer, analyzes the hunger strike agreement signed by Palestinian political prisoners.

The Electronic Intifada Weekly Podcast - 18 May, 2012

This week on our weekly Podcast: we’ll have an in-depth roundup of news and analysis on the end of the collective hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners, featuring an interview with Sahar Francis of the Palestinian prisoner support organization Addameer; and more!

BDS roundup: 10,000 signatures delivered to Irish corporation demanding divestment from Israeli contracts

This week in BDS news around the world: 10,000 signatures delivered to Irish building materials corporation demanding divestment from Israeli business contracts; a call for 24 hours of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails; and more!

The Electronic Intifada Weekly Podcast - 10 May 2012

This week on The Electronic Intifada podcast: Up-to-date coverage of the ongoing hunger strike protests by thousands of Palestinian prisoners; Linah Alsaafin and Asa Winstanley report from the West Bank on prisoner solidarity actions; and much more.

UK student leaders condemn anti-Palestinian policy at Israeli college

A statement released today signed by more than 100 student leaders in the United Kingdom condemns a policy at an Israeli college effectively barring Palestinians from its top student post.

Football activism group in solidarity with imprisoned Palestinian footballer and all hunger strikers

Football Beyond Borders has issued a letter of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike. They also officially announced their boycott of the UEFA 2013 Under-21 European football championships, which Israel is set to host.

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