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Aug 29, 2012
#BDS: ليتوقف رئيس جامعة القدس عن التطبيع الأكاديمي فوراً!
#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)
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