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Alvin Ailey: Don’t Dance Around Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | 9 October 2010 While human beings are being willfully denied not just their rights but their needs for their children and grandparents and themselves, I feel deeply that I should not be sending even tacit signals that [performing in Israel] is either ‘normal’ or ‘ok’. It’s neither and I cannot support it. It […]
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OECD chief warns: Jerusalem conference could be canceled
World economic body chief criticizes tourism minister for claiming that holding a conference in Jerusalem demonstrates its support for Israel’s sovereignty there. By Barak Ravid and Irit Rosenblum Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), sent a harsh letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that due to comments made […]
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Towards accountability: John Dugard interviewed
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 5 October 2010 Last month, Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, chaired a meeting on universal Jurisdiction in the Hague. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviewed Dugard about means of bringing Israel to account for its human rights violations, particularly […]
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Propaganda and Israel/Palestine: The War is On
Poor CAMERA…so victimized, so lonely. Tell the President and Provost of Boston University you are alarmed that they are welcoming a group of apologists for Israeli war crimes!
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French BDS Activists Request Your Help!
Monday, 27 September 2010 12:21 CAPJPO-EuroPalestine The repression against BDS activists in France is reaching a new height with the prosecution of a French MP, Alima Boumediene-Thiery (member of the French Senate) who participated in a BDS action in the Paris region one year ago and who is a supporter of the BDS campaign. Her […]
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Architects against Israeli occupation
With the settlement freeze over, international architects must take action to end illegal construction in the West Bank o Abe Hayeem o guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 October 2010 10.01 BST In deciding to back the boycott of Ariel theatre in the West Bank, Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect of Guggenheim fame, joins a growing body of […]
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Is boycotting Israel anti-Semitic?
Sherry Wolf, a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, responds to claims from supporters of Zionism that criticism of Israel–and in particular, the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against it–is “anti-Semitic.” October 7, 2010 ISRAEL’S SUPPORTERS wield the accusation that Palestine solidarity activists who support a boycott of Israel are guilty of anti-Semitism. […]
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Palestine boycott committee calls on US pension fund to divest from Israel
Press release, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, 5 October 2010 The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto of providing “Financial Services for the […]
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ETC, Expel the Cameri Theater of Tel-Aviv!
September 14, 2010 To the board and member theatres of the European Theatre Convention (ETC), We, Jews, Palestinians, citizens of Israel, write to you today asking you to cancel the Israeli theatre The Cameri’s membership of the ETC, due to The Cameri’s implicit and now also explicit role in sustaining the occupation of Palestine and […]
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Scorpions, Make a Clear Statement in Support of Justice
30 September 2010 Dear Scorpions, We are a group of activists from Israel, writing to you to express our support for the open letter written to you by PACBI. As people who have for many years been striving to achieve justice and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis we have reached a conclusion that our […]
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