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Pressure increases to deny Dutch bus contract to Israeli settlement profiteer Veolia

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 12:38

Pressure to deny a public transport contract to Veolia because of its role in Israel’s violations of international law increases in the Netherlands.

Israel's pinkwashing exposed as dishonest at New York debates

Uri Horesh
6 April 2012

Israel’s strategy of “pinkwashing” — using its supposedly stellar record on gay rights — to obscure abuses of Palestinian human rights has done more to provoke than to quiet criticism.

Veolia treats wastewater from Modi'in Illit settlement

Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 08:12

Recent research by Who Profits? shows that. Veolia Water Israel provides services to the illegal settlement of Modi’in Illit, and Veolia Transportation Israel operates a total of seven - instead of four - bus lines that run through Palestinian land.

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.”

Move Over AIPAC challenges business-as-usual in Washington

Linda Khoury
Washington, DC
3 June 2011

Late last month AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, held its 2011 annual policy conference in Washington, DC. Just across the street hundreds of social justice activists from all corners of the United States, in addition to a handful of internationals, met with the formidable goal of building a counter-force to AIPAC.

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