Aug 31, 2012
#BDS: ##US store briefly distributes #Israel-labeled bags in Beirut branch #fuckIsrael
"BEIRUT: U.S. store American Eagle Outfitters distributed bags labeled ‘Israel’ for a brief period in its recently opened second branch on Beirut’s Hamra Street.
“It happened by mistake in our Hamra branch, and we immediately pulled the product from the market,” one of the Kaslik store’s employees told The Daily Star. American Eagle’s bags are usually labeled with the relevant country or city.
Lebanon’s Anti-Israeli Boycott Law prohibits any dealings with Israelis.
BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) activists in Beirut issued a statement earlier this week saying the incident occurred before Eid al-Fitr in August, and that they were following up on the issue."
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#BDS: الأمازيغ إذ يتصدون للاختراق الصهيوني #fuckIsrael
في خضم انشغال الشعوب العربية بمعاركها من أجل التغيير والكرامة ومواجهة الفساد والاستبداد والتبعية، يواصل الصهاينة العمل على اختراق ما يعتقدون أنه مناطق هشة قابلة للاختراق، لإيجاد مواقع لهم في العالم العربي.
وفي هذا السياق يصلون الليل بالنهار لضمان مكان لهم بالمغرب عبر اعتماد إستراتيجية ناعمة تتجاوز منطق تطبيع العلاقات علنا على الصعيد الرسمي، الذي انتهى تحت ضغط الاحتجاج الكبير الذي شهده الشارع العربي والمغربي إثر اندلاع الانتفاضة الفلسطينية الثانية.
وحينها أغلق مكتب الاتصال الإسرائيلي بالمغرب ونظيره المغربي في تل أبيب يوم 23 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2000، بعد العريضة الشهيرة للجمعية المغربية لمساندة الكفاح الفلسطيني التي وقعتها قيادات الأحزاب السياسية والنقابات والجمعيات، إثر مسيرة مليونية يوم 8 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2000 حملت شعار "كلنا فلسطينيون"، طالبت من خلالها بإغلاق مكتب الاتصال الصهيوني.
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#BDS Israeli settler leader laments growing impact of boycott #FuckIsrael
A growing trend in multinational factories pulling out of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has settler leaders aggrieved, according to a report by Israel National News, a leading settler media outlet.
Several multinational companies in recent months have packed up and left theBarkan Industrial Park, near the Ariel settlement in the northern West Bank. In an ironic twist, multinationals that have bought out Israeli companies with facilities in Barkan have moved them out of the occupied territories. Continued.
Aug 30, 2012
#BDS: DON’T DANCE WITH ISRAEL APARTHEID – Edinburgh – 30 Aug to 1 Sep #fuckIsrael
"Protest Brand Israel’s Batsheva in Edinburgh and across the UK
Scottish Friends of Palestine is a member of Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid campaign, which is organising demonstrations against Israeli State-funded Batsheva at the Edinburgh International Festival and across the UK in November. Batsheva is part of the Brand Israel effort to shift attention away from Israel’s crimes: ethnic cleansing and mass violence against the Palestinian people."
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No to normalization: Lebanese man sentenced for "dealing with Israel" #fuckIsrael
Beirut's Military Court sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man to
15 years in prison on charges of “dealing with Israel” on Thursday. The verdict ruled that Antoun Joseph was guilty on charges of
“dealing with the Israeli enemy by entering occupied Palestine and
marrying there.” He was sentenced to 15 years with hard labor. The ruling is eligible
for repeal and re-trial in the case of the case of his arrest or were he
to hand himself in to military judicial authorities. The governor of Lebanon's military judiciary tried dozens of others
on charges of spying for Israel and the military court issued sentences
including the death penalty for some.
(Al-Akhbar)
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#BDS: Boycott #Batsheva, Israeli Apartheid’s Cultural Ambassador #fuckIsrael
"Occupied Ramallah, 28 August 2012 -- Palestinian civil society stands united in its support for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, including in the cultural field. Israeli dance companies are as guilty as other Israeli academic and economic institutions in consciously contributing the state's attempts to whitewash its occupation, colonization and apartheid. Based on this, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on the Edinburgh International Festival to cancel its invitation of the Israeli dance company Batsheva, which is particularly complicit in covering up Israel’s egregious human rights violations against the Palestinian people."
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#BDS: مجلس طلاب جامعة فيتس جنوب أفريقيا يتبنى قرارا يقضي بمقاطعة إسرائيل أكاديمياً و ثقافياً #fuckIsrael
ترحب حملة طلاب فلسطين للمقاطعة الأكاديمية والثقافية لإسرائيل والمنظمات الأهلية الاعضاء بقطاع الشباب بشبكة المنظمات الاهلية بقرار ممثلي مجلس طلاب جامعة فيتس بجنوب افريقيا الذي اتخذ بالإجماع والذي يدعو لمقاطعة المؤسسات الإسرائيلية أكاديميا و ثقافيا.
وينص قرار مجلس طلاب جامعة فيتس علي أن الجامعة لن تشارك في أي تعاون أكاديمي أو ثقافي أو مشاريع مشتركة مع مؤسسات إسرائيلية, كما و أنها لن توفر أي دعم لمؤسسات ثقافية أو أكاديمية إسرائيلية. إضافة إلي ذلك, فان القرار يدعو لاتخاذ إجراءات تحقيقيه بشان أي ارتباطات و علاقات للجامعة مع مؤسسات إسرائيلية سواء كانت أكاديمية, مالية أو ثقافية.
وينص قرار مجلس طلاب جامعة فيتس علي أن الجامعة لن تشارك في أي تعاون أكاديمي أو ثقافي أو مشاريع مشتركة مع مؤسسات إسرائيلية, كما و أنها لن توفر أي دعم لمؤسسات ثقافية أو أكاديمية إسرائيلية. إضافة إلي ذلك, فان القرار يدعو لاتخاذ إجراءات تحقيقيه بشان أي ارتباطات و علاقات للجامعة مع مؤسسات إسرائيلية سواء كانت أكاديمية, مالية أو ثقافية.
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#BDS: هكذا يُستدرج المبدعون إلى التطبيع #fuckIsrael
حين دعت شركة «كتاب للإنتاج» المخرجين الفلسطينيين إلى العمل على «24 ساعة في القدس»، لم تكشف لهم عن خلفياته. وحدها المصادفة أبانت عن مشروع سيجمعهم بإسرائيليين لـ «الاحتفاء» بزهرة المدائن وتبييض صورة الجلاد...
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#BDS: World Social Forum "Free #Palestine": Nov-Dec 2012 #Brazil
Key Facts to join the WSF Free Palestine |
From November 28 to December 1 2012 the World Social Forum “Free Palestine” will be held in Porto Alegre (Brazil). This is a historic event that brings together solidarity, human rights and social justice movements and organizations from across the globe to develop and debate ideas, share experiences, network and plan strategies and campaigns to advance solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
To see the full call for the WSF Free Palestine, click here.
To see the Palestinian Reference Document for the WSF Free Palestine, click here.
Thematic Axes: The thematic axes are aimed to give orientation to the overall program of the World Social Forum Free Palestine. When submitting your self-organized events, you will be asked to register them in one of these axes contributing to the discussions of one of these themes.
5 Steps to get involved: The WSF Free Palestine is a process of global mobilizing, networking and strategizing and planning of joint action of which the four days event in Porto Alegre is a crucial moment of gathering and implementation. Learn five simple steps to joining this process.
Promote the WSF Free Palestine: Support the mobilizing effort for the WSF Free Palestine by posting alerts for the WSF on your sites and blogs, sending notices on your mailinglists and linking to the WSF Free Palestine website with one of our link buttons.
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Aug 29, 2012
#BDS: ليتوقف رئيس جامعة القدس عن التطبيع الأكاديمي فوراً!
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#BDS #India: InCACBI Statement on Asian Science Camp 2012 being held in #Israel
"We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. (Visit our website www.incacbi.in for more information.)
The Israeli state consistently and ruthlessly tramples on the academic freedom and cultural life of the Palestinian people; and a continued association with the instruments of such a state is unconscionable to any freedom loving person.
This is why we condemn India’s participation in the Asian Science Camp 2012 being held for the first time in Israel from August 26 to August 31, 2012. The Asian Science Camps aim at enlightening science talented youths (ages 17-21) through discussion and dialogue with top scholars in the world, and at promoting international friendship and cooperation among the best young students of the next generation in Asia, Australia and the pacific.[1] One of the larger delegations to the 2012 Camp is from India."
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#BDS: Frankfurt to Award Prestigious Honor to #Israel #Boycott Advocate
"The city of Frankfurt is set to award its prestigious Theodor Adorno prize to Professor Judith Butler, an avid proponent and supporter of boycotting Israeli products and cultural offerings.
The Adorno award, which is given for excellence in philosophy, music, film, and theater, is handed out every 3 years, and is named for a German-Jewish man who fled Nazi Germany but returned to the country after World War II to become a professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt."
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#BDS BDS roundup: Following Corrie verdict, activists strengthen divestment campaigns
In this roundup of news from the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement: Campaigners strengthen calls for divestment against Caterpillar following the Corrie verdict; Indian activists, scholars and artists denounce India-Israel free trade agreement; South Africa approves measure to correctly label products from Israeli settlements; and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (Vancouver) denounces pinkwashing, calls for adoption of BDS guidelines at Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Continued.
#BDS The "pop-washing" of apartheid? Veolia sponsors "green" music festival
First came the news that Lollapalooza, one of the world’s biggest and best-known alternative music festivals, was headed to Israel next year. And with it, producer Perry Farrell is likely bringing millions in revenue, not to mention a massive boon in cultural cache designed to portray the world’s last legal apartheid state as a bastion of diversity.
Those who haven’t read Benjamin Doherty’s in-depth post on The Electronic Intifada’s blog absolutely should. Doherty is thorough in not just describing how virulent the supposedly liberal Farrell’s Zionism is (he raised funds for soldiers during Operation Cast Lead for example) but also in revealing that next year’s Lolla Israel will literally sit atop the ruins of a Palestinian village.
Now, however, one has to wonder whether there isn’t something larger at play. Last week, advertisements went up around Chicago stumping for the “Rock the Green” festival in nearby Milwaukee. Presented as a “green music fest,” Rock the Green front-loads its rhetoric about environmental sustainability. Its commitment to “near-zero waste” is touted, and interviews with its headlining artists (including Third Eye Blind, Switchfoot and others) all feature their thoughts on what it means to be green.
Just as up front in the publicity for Rock the Green is its primary sponsor and financial backer: Veolia Environmental Services. Continued.
#BDS Arab Organization for Human Rights calls for boycotting Avkon company
LONDON, (PIC)-- The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in Britain condemned the involvement of many international companies in the Israeli military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories. AOHR revealed, in a statement on Monday, that Avkon company, established since 1945 in occupied Palestine, offers multiple services to the occupation army in occupied Palestine, including electrical systems, industrial control, building management, security systems, Fire Alarm Systems, software, communications, natural gas technology, wind energy technology, and telecommunications. The company's most important customers are the Israeli ministries of war, security, energy, transport, and agriculture. The statement pointed out that the company has so many branches worldwide in China, Russia, Malaysia, India, Jordon, and others. The organization called on the Malaysian and Jordanian governments to close the company's branches in their countries. The organization also called on European countries and other countries that host branches for that company "to investigate the company's illegal activities in the occupied Palestinian territories and its crimes against the Palestinian people”. Source.
#Jordanian normalization with apartheid Israel
Lebanese filmmakers pull out of Israeli-run workshop in Jordan
Three Lebanese filmmakers who were scheduled to participate in an international film training project in Jordan have pulled out after learning that Israel was among its key sponsors.
The filmmakers, Habib Battah, Lucien Bourjeily and Samer Ghorayeb, said they were unaware of the Israeli connection to the project when they applied to the annual event.
The group that organizes the project, Greenhouse, describes itself as an EU-Mediterranean joint venture, but it appears to be based in Israel and is run by three Israelis, according to its website.
Greenhouse was established several years ago by the New Fund for Cinema and Television, itself an initiative launched by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Arts in 1993, in partnership with the Ankara Cinema Association in Turkey, VOF Appel & Honigmann in the Netherlands, and Zebra Productions in Spain.
"We won't accept this if there was an [Israeli] connection of any kind," Bourjeily told Al-Akhbar over the phone. "If we had thought that there was even a possibility that Israel is behind this project, we wouldn't participate."
He and Ghorayeb had planned to screen their documentary, Al-Kamache, at the event until receiving a message from activists tipping them off that Israel was involved in the project.
“We contacted the organizers and asked about the financing, and they played the issue down. But they could not guarantee us otherwise, so we told them we would not participate,” he said.
Battah, who originally planned to screen his documentary Return to the Valley of Jews, which tells a story about Lebanese Jews, had also asked the organization to remove his name from the program.
“Initially it seemed to be a strictly European Union-funded project, producing films like 5 Broken Cameras which sheds light on the brutality of the Israeli occupation and humanizes the struggle against that occupation,” Battah told Al-Akhbar in an email.
“I was never told that Greenhouse was funded or backed by the Israeli government,” he added.
The event takes place between August 29 to September 3 in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, and is expected to draw participants from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Palestine.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement has condemned Arab participation in the event on its website.
Lebanon's 1955 boycott law outlaws interaction with Israeli citizens or organizations.
#BDS Thank you #Lebanon: Lebanese filmmakers pull out of Israeli-run workshop in Jordan
Three Lebanese filmmakers who were scheduled to participate in an international film training project in Jordan have pulled out after learning that Israel was among its key sponsors.
The filmmakers, Habib Battah, Lucien Bourjeily and Samer Ghorayeb, said they were unaware of the Israeli connection to the project when they applied to the annual event.
The group that organizes the project, Greenhouse, describes itself as an EU-Mediterranean joint venture, but it appears to be based in Israel and is run by three Israelis, according to its website.
Greenhouse was established several years ago by the New Fund for Cinema and Television, itself an initiative launched by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Arts in 1993, in partnership with the Ankara Cinema Association in Turkey, VOF Appel & Honigmann in the Netherlands, and Zebra Productions in Spain.
"We won't accept this if there was an [Israeli] connection of any kind," Bourjeily told Al-Akhbar over the phone. "If we had thought that there was even a possibility that Israel is behind this project, we wouldn't participate."
He and Ghorayeb had planned to screen their documentary, Al-Kamache, at the event until receiving a message from activists tipping them off that Israel was involved in the project.
“We contacted the organizers and asked about the financing, and they played the issue down. But they could not guarantee us otherwise, so we told them we would not participate,” he said.
Battah, who originally planned to screen his documentary Return to the Valley of Jews, which tells a story about Lebanese Jews, had also asked the organization to remove his name from the program.
“Initially it seemed to be a strictly European Union-funded project, producing films like 5 Broken Cameras which sheds light on the brutality of the Israeli occupation and humanizes the struggle against that occupation,” Battah told Al-Akhbar in an email.
“I was never told that Greenhouse was funded or backed by the Israeli government,” he added.
The event takes place between August 29 to September 3 in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, and is expected to draw participants from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Palestine.
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement has condemned Arab participation in the event on its website.
Lebanon's 1955 boycott law outlaws interaction with Israeli citizens or organizations.
(Al-Akhbar)
Aug 28, 2012
Video: #Gaza activists: Remember #RachelCorrie support #BDS
"Palestinians in Gaza support the Corrie family on the eve of the verdict in their lawsuit against Israel over its 2003 killing of their daughter Rachel, as well as divestment from Caterpillar and the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement."
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Aug 25, 2012
Bullshit, #BDS #Israel: Mayor claims settlement boycott harms Palestinian economy
The Mayor of Ma'ale Adumim has claimed that South Africa's decision to boycott products produced in the illegal Israeli settlement will harm the Palestinian economy and workers.
Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Beni Kashriel, the mayor of the occupied East Jerusalem settlement, has sent an urgent letter to South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane to complain about the boycott. In it he argues that boycotting Ma'ale Adumim's products or labelling goods as 'products produced in settlements built on West Bank soil' will have a negative effect not only on the settlement but also local Palestinians. Read more, here.
Aug 23, 2012
#BDS: Call to academics, students and artists around the world: Join the World Social Forum Free Palestine to build Solidarity with the Palestinian People!
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#BDS: Call to academics, students and artists around the world: Join the World Social Forum Free Palestine to build Solidarity with the Palestinian People!
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#BDS: Ethics matter, the world tells #Israel
"We may be quietly witnessing these days an important change in Middle Eastern history. The calm, rational human emphasis on ethical behavior and the quest for peace and justice could be triumphing over the attempt to spread victimization and hysteria and to overlook violent and criminal behavior.
This development was clear this week in the United Church of Canada’s vote to boycott products from Israeli settlements. This was in contrast to the exhortations by former U.S. State Department and White House official Dennis Ross – a stalwart of the pro-Israel scene from his post at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy – that the United States should withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending more military assets to the Sinai to combat terrorists attacking both Israel and Egypt)."
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This development was clear this week in the United Church of Canada’s vote to boycott products from Israeli settlements. This was in contrast to the exhortations by former U.S. State Department and White House official Dennis Ross – a stalwart of the pro-Israel scene from his post at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy – that the United States should withhold financial aid from Egypt if it violates the Camp David peace treaty with Israel (because Cairo is sending more military assets to the Sinai to combat terrorists attacking both Israel and Egypt)."
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#BDS: Israeli Officials Accuse South Africa Of Boycotting #Israel
"Commentary | Israeli leaders are seething over the latest call for a boycott of Israel by a ranking member of the South African Government. On Sunday, South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ebrahim Ismael Ebrahim, told reporters at the City Press, that he was “discouraging” South Africans from “associating” with Israel. Ebrahim went on to say, “Israel is an occupier country which is oppressing Palestine, so it is not proper for South Africans to associate with Israel. We discourage people from going there except if it has to do with the peace process.”
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#BDS: S.Africa approves 'Made in Palestinian Territories' tags
"South Africa's cabinet on Wednesday said it had approved the placing of Occupied Palestinian Territory labels on imported goods from Jewish settlements.
The trade minister was given the nod to issue a notice requiring that products are marked so that buyers knew their origin was not Israel, spokesman Jimmy Manyi told a press briefing."
The trade minister was given the nod to issue a notice requiring that products are marked so that buyers knew their origin was not Israel, spokesman Jimmy Manyi told a press briefing."
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#BDS: #Canada's Largest Church Joins Israeli Boycott
"Members of the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, voted Wednesday to affirm a controversial motion supporting a boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem.
Wednesday’s vote was preceded by nearly six hours of contentious debate, in which the church’s general council members nitpicked the proposal’s wording and heard drawn-out testimonies from representatives on both sides of the issue."
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#BDS: PROTESTS against Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company performing at the Edinburgh International Festival
"PROTESTS against Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company performing at the Edinburgh International Festival are attracting support from contemporary dance figures including Alain Platel, founder of the Belgian dance company Les Ballets C de la B, and UK choreographer Jonathan Burrows.
Both have endorsed statements opposing the participation of Batsheva because it is part of the Brand Israel campaign, begun in 2005, explicitly using culture as a propaganda tool to distract attention from Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinian people."
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#BDS: Lenny Kravitz cancels #Israel performance
"Lenny Kravitz has decided to cancel his performance in Israel due to prior commitments, Channel 2 News reported Tuesday evening.
The veteran American musician was set to sign off the summer in style with his Israel debut on October 6 in Tel Aviv."
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The veteran American musician was set to sign off the summer in style with his Israel debut on October 6 in Tel Aviv."
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#BDS: JPost.comArts & CultureMusic Lenny Kravitz cancels #Israel performance
"Lenny Kravitz has decided to cancel his performance in Israel due to prior commitments, Channel 2 News reported Tuesday evening.
The veteran American musician was set to sign off the summer in style with his Israel debut on October 6 in Tel Aviv."
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