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Interview: Why is concert promoter suing Lebanon boycott activists?

Maureen Clare Murphy
18 November 2011
Lebanese concert promoter Jihad el-Murr has filed a lawsuit against four groups over a boycott campaign they organized against the band Placebo in June 2010.

UK trade unionists put Histadrut under review; victory declared over Agrexco liquidation

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 00:19
Two significant milestones in the Palestinian-led movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) were marked this week with a vote by the UK’s Trades Union Congress to reconsider its ties with Israel’s national trade union federation, and with the confirmation that boycott target Agrexco was ordered into liquidation.

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.

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.

Israeli left's awakening too little, too late

Raja Shehadeh
25 July 2011
The strong reaction by left-wing Israelis to the recently passed “boycott law” must have astounded many in the country’s right-wing government and made them wonder why such a strong reaction now.

Israel's war on nonviolent protest

Jonathan Cook
Nazareth
19 July 2011
The newly-passed boycott law is the latest in a series of ever-more draconian laws being introduced by Israel’s far right. The legislation’s goal is to intimidate those Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who have yet to bow down before the majority-rule mob.

Rights groups: anti-boycott law "effectively a legal annexation of W. Bank"

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 16:16
Human rights groups in Israel are protesting the new Israeli law passed yesterday which “prohibits boycott of businesses, universities, and social and cultural institutions based in Israel and the illegal settlements, and imposes heavy financial sanctions against civil society organizations and businesses that participate in boycotts.”
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