#BDS: #G4S contracts in occupied territories face major investigation

G4S, the security company which has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past two years, is facing an investigation by international authorities into its alleged activities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Sources said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) UK staff have indicated that it will be investigating the company’s work supplying Israeli security services. It is alleged that G4S provides Israel with surveillance equipment at its checkpoints in the occupied territories, although the precise nature of the equipment is not known. Read more

#BDS: Pro-Palestine campaigners celebrate #Veolia’s loss of £40million contract in Canterbury #UK #fuckIsrael

"Veolia Environment has failed in its bid to secure an 8-year, £40 million contract with Canterbury City Council in Britain. The council announced today that the current holder, Serco, was the successful bidder. This was despite Veolia’s website headline on November 10, 2010, that it had won a joint contract worth a total of £70 million awarded by Dover District Council, working in partnership with Shepway District Council and Kent County Council.

Veolia has been a target for human rights campaigners due to its involvement in Israeli projects in East Jerusalem and the West Bank which negatively impact on Palestinian human rights, including a transport infrastructure to illegal settlements and Israeli army bases in the West Bank."

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#BDS: Shaming the Natural History Museum About Its Choice of Veolia As Support #UK #fuckIsrael

"Today from 12 to 2 pm about 10  Palestine Solidarity Campaigners joined together in our weekly campaign against Veolia outside London’s Natural History Museum. We were not alone with our message of solidarity with Palestine. During the action, we reached out to more than 1,000 visitors and we were supported by literally hundreds of them.

Furthermore, we managed to gather more than 100 signatures for our petition against the Museum’s partnerships with Veolia."

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#BDS: Protests drive #Ahava out of Covent Garden #UK #fuckIsrael

"The UK branch of Israeli cosmetics store, Ahava, is moving from its central London shop after years of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Protesters claim that the products sold in the store are manufactured in a factory in Israeli settlement, Mitzpe Shalom in the West Bank but are "misleadingly" labelled as produced in Israel.

The owner of the shop, currently in Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, is looking for other sites after owners of neighbouring stores complained to the landlord following protests.

Supporters claim it has been "chased out" of its location by regular "noisy and intimidating" demonstrations."

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#BDS Victory: Brighton Batsheva show cancelled to delight of Israel boycotters #fuckIsrael

"A performance by an Israeli dance group in Brighton next month has been cancelled amid security concerns, in a decision that anti-Israel campaigners are hailing as a victory.

The Batsheva Ensemble, the youth company of the internationally acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company, has been invited to perform Deca Dance in Bradford, Salford, Birmingham, Brighton, Plymouth, Leicester and London in a tour organised by Dance Consortium."

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#BDS: G4S Securing Israeli Apartheid #fuckIsrael

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#BDS: BIN UK Workshop: Rising to the Challenge of ‘Brand Israel’ #fuckIsrael

"Boycott Israel Network workshop: Rising to the Challenge of ‘Brand Israel

Location: Leicester
Date: Saturday November 17, 2012
Facebook: Event Page

G4S, Veolia, agricultural trade, culture and sport, armaments, diamonds, Eden Springs . . . . There is no shortage of targets for BDS action but if we are to be effective and build on our recent successes including: Habima, The Co-op, G4S & here and Batsheva, we need clear objectives, carefully considered priorities and a strategic plan to take us forward into the coming year."

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#BDS Photos: Boycott #Batsheva Protest in Edinburgh #fuckIsrael

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#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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#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 in #Britain: Calls For A Boycott Of Israeli Dates

"There are calls in Britain to boycott the Israeli dates that are produced on the occupied Palestinian territories and in the settlements which the British government considered illegal and an obstacle to peace.

The British solidarity movements with Palestine and the Jewish and British groups for boycott of Israel appealed to the consumers to verify the dates before buying them. Specially, after the rise of Israel's exports of dates in Britain and Europe in Ramadan."

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#BDS: London Shopkeepers Embrace 'Boycott #Israel-i Dates Campaign'

"With Ramadan just a week away and this years 'Boycott Israeli Dates Campaign' in full flow, the capitals shopkeepers have wholeheartedly embraced the campaign with dozens of shops in London already displaying the campaign posters in their shop windows and stocking bundles of leaflets to give out to their customers.

Customers have reacted very positively to this act of solidarity by shopkeepers with the Palestinian people suffering this Ramadan under brutal Israeli military occupation: "I feel if this shop has gone to the trouble to put up this poster for the benefit of its customers.. for my benefit, to inform me which brands of dates to avoid and thereby not contribute to the crimes being committed against my brothers and sisters in Palestine, then it shows they care for their customers and I am very please to shop here.."

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#BDS: مستشار لحكومات أوروبية: لا مانع من مقاطعة منتجات المستوطنات الإسرائيلية

قال مستشار للحكومة البريطانية ولحكومات أخرى بالاتحاد الأوروبى إنه لا مانع قانونيا من أن تقدم بلدان أوروبية على حظر المتاجرة بمنتجات مصدرها المستوطنات الإسرائيلية.

ونقلت الإذاعة الإسرائيلية عن جيمس كروفرد، الخبير القانونى، أنه لا يوجد قانون لدى دول الاتحاد الأوروبى يحظر مقاطعة منتجات المستوطنات لأسباب تتعلق بالسياسة العامة.

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#BDS: Press Release from BIN and BRICUP: Pro-Palestinian Protesters thwart draconian security at Globe Theatre #UK

"Press Release from

BIN - Boycott Israel Network
and BRICUP - British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
    
PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS THWART DRACONIAN SECURITY AT ISRAELI
STATE THEATRE PERFORMANCE, GLOBE THEATRE
    
* Shakespeare's Globe in security lockdown to defend
        Israeli National Theatre
* Repeated interruptions
* Israeli Embassy orchestrates propaganda campaign against
        growing support for cultural boycott
    
Despite unprecedented security at Shakespeare's Globe for
Monday's performance by Israeli National Theatre, Habima,
pro-Palestinian campaigners succeeded in unfurling a banner
and staging a mute protest against illegal colonisation and
settlement. Protesters were manhandled by security staff out
of the theatre on London's Bankside, where Habima - which
entertains colonists illegally settled on Palestinian land -
was performing the Merchant of Venice in Hebrew as part of
the Cultural Olympiad."

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#BDS: #UK daily slammed for mentioning Israel’s nat'l bird

"In a letter to the newspaper, Linda Claire, the chairwoman of Manchester’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign, asked why it had referred to the bird after it has “always been the newspaper you could rely on to support the cause of the Palestinians.”

“Maybe you don’t support the methods chosen by the international solidarity movement of BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel] to assist the Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and justice,” she said, adding that this included any reference to Israel’s wildlife.

“Despite its condemnation of zionists [sic] it yet finds space to include an item in its daily quiz about Israel’s national bird. Is the Star not aware there’s a cultural boycott going on?” Claire’s husband, George Abendstern, asked in another letter."

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#BDS: Boycott Israel’s National Theatre Company, Habima

""Tell Israeli Apartheid to leave the Stage"

Habima is performing at the Globe Theatre as part of the Globe to Globe festival despite protests from over 30 actors, directors and playwrights, including the founding artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Mark Rylance, and actors Emma Thompson and David Calder, who signed an open letter in March condemning the Globe for its invitation."

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#BDS: بريطانيا تلغي مشاركة خبير إسرائيلي بمؤتمر دولي

ألغت نقابة الخدمات الصحية الوطنية في بريطانيا مساء اليوم الإثنين، مشاركة المحامي الإسرائيلي والخبير في المفاوضات وإدارة الأزمات "موطي كريستال"، في مؤتمر دولي سيعقد الأسبوع القادم بمدينة مانشستر البريطانية، في أعقاب قرار اتحاد النقابات البريطانية اعتبار هذه المشاركة خرقا للمقاطعة التي تفرضها النقابات على إسرائيل.

وذكرت صحيفة "يديعوت احرونوت" أن اتحاد النقابات البريطانية UNISON تصر على موقفها المقاطع لإسرائيل بالرغم من الضغوطات الداخلية والخارجية التي تمارس عليها، مشيرة إلى أن الغاء المحاضرة جاء بالرغم من أن الدعوة تمت من قبل منظمة NHS وهي منظمة تحظى بدعم حكومي وتعارض مبدئيا فرض الحظر على إسرائيل.

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#BDS: #UK's largest Co-op boycotts exports from #Israel's West Bank settlements

"The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from illegal Israeli settlements.

The UK's fifth biggest food retailer and its largest mutual business, the Co-op took the step as an extension of its existing policy which had been not to source produce from illegal settlements that have been built on Palestinian territories in the West bank."

Read more and write the co-op at customer.relations@co-op.co.uk to show your support. 

#BDS: We want our rubbish managed by a company with clean hands #Veolia #UK

"Since 1967 homes in the Occupied Territories have been bull-dozed on a daily basis, crops are being vandalized, water cisterns smashed, all to make way for the building of illegal Israeli settlements, on stolen land. The list of crimes is endless. And all of this has been, and is still being, committed in order to build an increasing number of illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land

Gazans are trapped in an area no bigger than Shepherd’s Bush in London, effectively a concentration camp, and after having been brutally attacked in ‘Operation Cast Lead’ are prohibited from obtaining the materials needed to rebuild their lives."

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#BDS: #UK helps the water thieves #Israel

"(LONDON) - There are few crimes more despicable then stealing your neighbour’s water.and polluting what’s left, then watching him and his children suffer thirst, disease and ruin.

Most of us would want nothing to do with the perpetrators of such evil.

British Water describes itself as the voice of the water industry. It talks about best practice and corporate responsibility, and lobbies governments and regulators on behalf of its members. No doubt it does a good job.

It also has international ambitions including in the Middle East. So presumably it knows what's going on water-wise in the Holy Land.

British Water should know, for example, that the 400-miles long structure known worldwide as Israel's Apartheid Wall bites deep into the Palestinian West Bank dividing and isolating communities and stealing their lands and water."

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