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National conference focuses on West Bank boycott efforts

Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 20:49
Palestinian Authority faces backlash, as popular conference denounces normalization, and plans boycott expansion in West Bank.

Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boycott of Israel

Eva Bartlett
Gaza Strip
11 February 2013

Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.

Gaza students launch "boycott Israel" campaign

Joe Catron
Gaza City
12 November 2012

Vending machine in college canteen no longer contains Israeli goods after request by students.

BDS key to a "just peace," says Palestinian Christian boycott activist

Joe Catron
Gaza Strip
3 October 2012

While much work is still to be done, the coordinator of the project that produced the landmark Kairos Palestine document reflects on its successes.

“We’re counting on you”: In video, students in Gaza call on world peers to intensify BDS

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 06:06
“Every BDS success makes us feel like we made a stride forward towards freedom, justice, equality and return”

"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.

All set for 2012 Palestine literature festival in Gaza, except permits from Egypt

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 20:51

This year’s Palestine Festival of Literature is scheduled to take place in Gaza from 5-9 May – if only Egypt provides the permits for writers, bloggers and artists – including Ahdaf Soueif, Alaa Abd el‐Fattah, Suad Amiry and others to enter the besieged territory.

Gaza gears up for Israeli Apartheid Week

Rana Baker and
Joe Catron
Gaza Strip
1 March 2012
Students across the occupied Gaza strip prepare for the third consecutive year of Israeli Apartheid Week events, structured around strengthening the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and bridging global struggles for liberation.

Frustration simmers over Egypt-Gaza border closure

Jared Malsin
11 August 2011
Palestinians in Gaza are still waiting for Egypt’s promise to ease the closure of Rafah crossing to materialize.
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