Activism and BDS Beat

Monsoon Wedding director Mira Nair boycotts Israel film festival

“I will not be going to Israel at this time. I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone. I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another,” Nair said. 

California students unite against "common enemy" Janet Napolitano

An organizer with Students for Justice in Palestine - West says that the appointment of Janet Napolitano as chief of the University of California system will be met with strengthened support and solidarity between activist groups. 

Palestinian national strike to stop Israel's "Prawer plan" ethnic cleansing

Israel’s Prawer plan aims to forcibly displace up to 50,000 Palestinian Bedouins in the Naqab desert, confiscate 800,000 dunums of land, and confine the Bedouins to one percent of the land. Palestinian across the country are calling for a day of “Anger Strike” and plan to take to the streets in their thousands. 

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