#BDS Victory: إلغاء عقود تأمين لإسرائيل بالأردن

ألغت شركة تأمين أردنية عقودا أبرمتها مع سفارة إسرائيل بعمان تخص سياراتها بعدما تلقت تهديدا من لجان مقاومة التطبيع بالأردن، في حين ربط خليل خموس نائب شركة الشرق العربي للتأمين بين إلغاء عقود تأمين 4 سيارات تابعة للسفارة الإسرائيلية وموقف الشركة الرافض لأي علاقة تربطها بتل أبيب.

وأوضح خموس أن مندوبين في الشركة أجروا تأمينا لسيارات تابعة للسفارة دون الرجوع إلى إدارة الشركة، التي رفضت عروضا سابقة من السفارة، وأضاف أن الإدارة اتخذت إجراءات لعدم تكرار هذه الحادثة من خلال سحب بطاقات التأمين من الوكلاء، وأضاف خموس أن فسخ عقود التأمين يترتب عنه غرامات مالية وأن الشركة مستعدة لدفعها.

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#BDS: الإفطار الحلال ليس من صنع الاحتلال

طولكرم- معا- في إطار الحملة الرمضانية لمقاطعة البضائع الإسرائيلية، وتحت شعار (الإفطار الحلال ليس من صنع الاحتلال) نظمت الحملة الشعبية لمقاطعة البضائع الإسرائيلية حملة للتعبئة الجماهيرية في شوارع مدينة طولكرم، شارك فيها 40 ناشطا، حملوا اللافتات المكتوب عليها شعارات تحض المواطنين على مقاطعة البضائع الإسرائيلية، كشكل من أشكال المقاومة الشعبية ضد الاحتلال.

وبهدف إلحاق الخسائر باقتصاده، وقد سار الناشطون في مركز المدينة وشوارعها الرئيسية، وتحدثوا مع التجار والمواطنين، واجروا نقاشات معهم ليشرحوا أهداف وجدوى المقاطعة، كما ووقف الناشطون في ميدان جمال عبد الناصر حيث رددوا الشعارات الخاصة بالمقاطعة، وأوقفوا السيارات وتحدثوا مع الركاب وابلغوهم رسالة المقاطعة.

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#BDS: #Orange aussi élimine Israël

"Les abonnés à Orange reçoivent dès leur arrivée à l'aéroport Ben Gourion (Tel Aviv) le message suivant sur leur téléphone

« Orange vous accompagne to PALESTINIA AUTHORITY »

Orange participe aussi au boycott d'Israël. Son slogan « La vie change avec Orange » changerait-il aussi la carte du Moyen-Orient ?

Europe Israël écrit au PDG d'Orange et de France Télécom afin de lui demander sa position officielle de la société Orange , filiale de France Télécom."

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#BDS: Marianne Faithfull returning to #Israel

"Legendary British singer Marianne Faithfull, who has already become a regular guest in Israel, will perform at the Shuni Amphitheater in Binyamina on October 18.

The upcoming concert is part of Faithfull's "Horses and High Heels" tour following her latest album released in March." 

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#BDS: Israeli, Iranian singers to meet online

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An internet meeting will be held on August 17 between Israeli singers, who will perform songs in Persian, and famous singers from Iran, who will sing in Hebrew.

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The Iranian side, at least according to the organizers, will be represented by singers Hamid Hami, considered a supporter ofIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Lohrasbi, Mohammad Esfahani and two others.

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#BDS: Air Supply coming to Israel in September

"Veteran Australian soft rock duo Air Supply will arrive in Israel in September for a series of concerts, following the success of its previous visit to the Holy Land three years ago.

The upcoming visit will be part of the band's world tour."

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#BDS: Dropping the last mask of democracy

""You should definitely postpone your book launch in Jerusalem," warned a close friend who felt that the planned event for launching my recently published book on the Palestinian-led movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel might be too risky in light of the recently passed Israeli law that effectively bans support for the thriving boycott movement. At the packed bookshop-cafe in occupied East Jerusalem last Thursday, however, the engaged and Italian-coffee scented atmosphere was almost jubilant, as if declaring a collective defiance of Israel's latest draconian measure.

Much controversy has arisen since the Israeli parliament passed legislation that would effectively criminalise support for any boycott against Israel or its institutions, under threat of heavy penalties and worse, without the need to prove "guilt". Dozens of Israeli civil society organisations and leading legal scholars, including many opposing the boycott, have resolutely opposed this exceptionally authoritarian law on diverse grounds, ranging from the most principled to the downright pragmatic."

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#BDS: «فيوليا» (لا) تعمل في لبنان؟ #Veolia

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 عربياً تبدو الصورة مختلفة. حيث تعمل فيوليا ومتفرعاتها في العديد من الدول العربية. ففي المملكة العربية السعودية تعمل كل من فيوليا والستوم ضمن ائتلاف شركات الراجحي على تنفيذ خط قطار الحرمين. اضافة الى ابرام عقد شراكة مع شركة ديار المملوكة من الحكومة القطرية العام الفائت. وللشركة نشاطها في مصر والمغرب والامارات، اضافة الى دول تعد رافضة للاحتلال الاسرائيلي كفنزويلا وتركيا. اما اسم لبنان فموجود على احد مواقع الشركة التي تقدم حلولاً لمشاكل المياه. «الأخبار» حاولت الاستفسار باتصال هاتفي عن طبيعة عمل الشركة في لبنان «لأننا نجري بحثا عن مشاكل المياه والحلول المناسبة لها»، كما ادّعينا في الاتصال، فحولونا الى شخص من قسم المناقصات اكد لنا أن «الشركة في لبنان» هي فرع للشركة العالمية، وأن اهم مشاريعها في لبنان لمصلحة «مجلس الإنماء والاعمار»، حيث نفذت الشركة تركيب محطات تكرير المياه المبتذلة في النبطية وراس النبي يونس. لكن، هل قامت الشركة بهذه الاعمال باسمها فيوليا أم باسم آخر؟ ارسلنا استيضاحاً رسمياً عبر الفاكس الى مجلس الإنماء والإعمار الذي رد علينا مؤكداً أن المشروعين قد نفذا من خلال شركة «او تي في» غير المسجلة على لائحة المقاطعة، وفقاً لشهادة مكتب مقاطعة اسرائيل في وزارة التجارة والاقتصاد.

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#BDS: #LUSH Under Attack for Supporting #Palestine

"It’s no surprise then that the plight of Palestinians concerns LUSH. In 2011, the company was one of the first to support the OneWorld hit single “Freedom for Palestine”. This song, written by Dave Randall from Faithless, who having visited the West Bank, realised that life for most Palestinians living under the illegal Israeli occupation is just as bad as that endured by black South Africans during Apartheid.

‘Freedom for Palestine,’ inspired by AKA’s classic track ‘Free Nelson Mandela,’ was made in collaboration with many artists, including Maxi Jazz (Faithless), LSK, the Durban Gospel Choir and is supported by Roger Waters, Massive Attack, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu & many others.

However, due to LUSH’s support of ‘Freedom for Palestine’, LUSH is now the centre of a hate campaign by those who support the Apartheid Israeli State."

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#BDS: Update your boycott lists: #Nivea puts #Israel back on the map

"An Israeli blogger was astonished to discover that Nivea skin product company does not list Israel among the countries that sell its products, while the Palestinian territories do appear on its website.

After raising the issue with the company, Beiersdorf – who owns the Nivea brand – promptly added Israel to the list, and linked it to an empty co.il site."

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#BDS: African Americans should support Palestinian rights and BDS

"Members of the Interfaith Peace Builders’ first African Heritage Delegation to Israel/Palestine have issued a call on African Americans to support the struggle for Palestinian rights, and have declared their support for the Palestinian-led campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel.

The group of seven women and seven men, “included teachers, professors, college administrators, human rights activists, and ministers and lay leaders from both Christian and Islamic faith traditions.”

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#BDS: South African students back boycott of Israel as BDS campaign spreads in Africa

"South African student bodies slam "Israeli Apartheid Agents" and endorse nationwide Israel boycott

This afternoon at a joint press conference held at the student center of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, national representatives of the South African Union of Students (SAUS), the South African Student Congress (SASCO) and the Young Communist League (YCL) slammed the pending trip of "Israeli Apartheid agents" to South Africa."

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#BDS: 44 weeks of pro-Palestinian protest in Adelaide, #Australia

"Adelaide is the capital of South Australia. It’s a sprawling city; Adelaide’s metropolitan region is more than twice the size of Gaza but with a smaller population. Gaza has 1.7 million people compared with Adelaide’s 1.2 million. However there are much more significant differences. Here we move freely in and out of our city and country, trade with everyone, have ready access to water, food, medicines, hospitals, medical care and education. No-one has ever imprisoned our whole population and then bombed us. Yet in spite of our differences and the vast 13,000 km distance between our cities a growing number of people in Adelaide are developing a sense of solidarity with the people of Palestine.

As part of our contribution to the international BDS movement, over 10 months ago the Australian Friends of Palestine Association held the first Adelaide Seacret (Israeli cosmetic company) protest. Each week an ever increasing number of pro-Palestinian protesters have demonstrated in front of the Myer Centre shopping complex which hosts the Seacret kiosk. Our latest You Tube shows that despite strong opposition and varying intimidating tactics from Zionist sympathizers, we are determined to continue to educate the people of Adelaide about Palestine and encourage them to boycott Israeli products."

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#BDS: Occupation profiteer #Ahava soaks up #EU science grants

"Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the EU’s commissioner for scientific research, recently acknowledged that the cosmetics-maker Ahava was allocated more than €1 million worth of innovation grants from the Union over a period stretching from 1998 to 2013. Giving even one cent to Ahava involves facilitating breaches of international law because of the firm’s unlawful activities in the West Bank.

As Geoghegan-Quinn doesn’t appear to recognize this problem, she would be well-advised to read a report, issued in May, by the human rights organization B’Tselem. It highlights how Ahava is partly owned by two Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land: Mitzpe Shalem and Qalya. Both of those settlements are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which forbids an occupying power from transferring its civilian population to the territory it occupies."

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#BDS: In support of Indian artists protesting against #Israel

"In the story “Indian artists to boycott major show in Israel” (published in The Hindu on August 3), my views have been presented in a way that completely belies my life-long career in art based on the conviction that art and politics (and most certainly culture and politics) are interlocked in complex ways. And that artists can make a significant contribution to ongoing history through protests, boycotts, refusals, and direct address within and beyond their art practice.

Some bare facts: I signed the Palestine Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel in 2010, which makes my stand against the state of Israel/in support of the Palestinian cause, self-evident. Added to that, I am not invited to show in the forthcoming exhibition of Indian art in Tel Aviv, so there cannot be even a remote reason for me to renege or prevaricate on the issue of a boycott."

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