#BDS: Protesters gather outside TIAA-CREF shareholder meeting

"With organized chants and giant signs, dozens gathered outside TIAA CREF's annual shareholder's meeting in Charlotte Tuesday.

The group, Jewish Voice for Peace, is calling on the Fortune 100 financial services company to cut ties with companies in its investment portfolio they say are profiting from the Israeli occupation. They referenced companies like Caterpillar Inc. and Veolia.

"It's so important what we do with our money, especially money that's for people's retirement," said Jerry Markatos, who came all the way from Pittsboro to attend the demonstration."
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#BDS, #LGBT, and Why You Should Care about Pinkwashing

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"“Pinkwash” is the term we, LGBT (Bisexual, Transgender, Lesbian and Gay) activists, use in order to describe the way in which the Israeli government makes cynical use of both the Palestinian and Israeli queer communities in order to market Israel to the international public as a “liberal” “progressive” “gay haven,” while demonizing Arabic Middle Eastern cultures and presenting them – and Palestine in particular – as inherently homophobic (an Islamophobic notion whose goal is to further justify Israeli war crimes in Gaza, the occupied territories and against Palestinian citizens of Israel). The Israeli government, through the Ministry of Tourism and with kind help from the Tel Aviv municipality, makes use of the relative tolerance and meager rights given to Jewish gays and lesbians (but not bisexuals and transgenders), as a way of diverting attention from the many Israeli war crimes performed in Gaza, the occupied Palestinian territories and inside Israel itself."

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Video: Omar Barghouti - #BDS - The Global Struggle For Palestinian Rights

#BDS Alert: Reggae star Ziggy Marley rejects calls to boycott #Israel

"Online pressure to boycott Israel didn’t dissuade reggae star Ziggy Marley from performing in Tel Aviv Tuesday night or on Thursday at the Return to Zion festival at Sacher Park in Jerusalem.

“People say, don’t disgrace your father’s name by going to Israel and all these type of things,” the eldest son of the late musical icon Bob Marley said at a press conference Tuesday at the Sheraton Hotel in Tel Aviv, referring to the negative responses he saw on Facebook and other sites upon publication of his Israel tour dates."

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#BDS: Normalizing Israeli apartheid through international sporting events

"The use of sport to unite children divided by street violence and traumatized by war is a compelling idea. 'Serious Play: The Goal is Peace' is the title of a 7 July Huffington Post article by Alison Craiglow Hockenberry. It opens with the anecdote of a young Jürgen Griesbeck overcoming the murder of his friend in Colombia in 1994 by founding a program called Football for Peace, which brings at-risk kids together to play in Medellín, “one of the most dangerous and violent cities in the world”. Next up is the story of Palestinian children, of whom interviewee Hani Qattan of PACES - the Palestinian Association for Children's Encouragement of Sports is quoted as saying, "are exposed to drugs, smoking, and... extremism that may result in violence" if they are left idle in the street. Looking at the PACES website homepage, these young girls do not look like potential terrorists, but never mind, they are Palestinian. That is why the Peres Centre for Peace, established in 1996 by current Israeli president Shimon Peres, who has played a prominent role in successive Israeli wars of choice, inflicting death and suffering on countless children, has stepped in with its ‘Twinned Peace Sport School’ to bring over 2,000 Palestinian and Israeli kids together on teams to play and compete."

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#BDS: #Agrexco, #Israel’s largest goods exporter, facing possible bankruptcy

"The fate of Agrexco, the largest exporter of Israeli produce, may be decided in a Tel Aviv court Wednesday, as a two week extension on bankruptcy proceedings expires. The company has been in receivership for several months, but if new sources of funding are not secured by Wednesday's deadline, the company will be unable to pay growers for produce, and will essentially cease operations."
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#BDS: Doha Film, #Qatar Institute participates in normalization with #Israel

"We are disappointed to learn of the Doha Film Institute participating in normalization with Israel through an Israeli-Qatari coproduction with an Israeli production company, with its co-production represented as an Israeli film in the Jerusalem Film Festival in the Israeli Competition.”
Zoabi’s 2010 film had its world premier at 2010’s Doha-Tribeca Film Festival. An Israel / France / Belgium / Palestine / Qatar co-production, the film was the first to issue from cooperation between an Arab funding agency and an Israel production company."

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#BDS: Arab Human Rights Fund lists Israel as a donor

Here's a link to their official website.

#BDS: Music and politics don't mix? Israel using int'l artists to whitewash it's image

"Tourism Ministry appeals to international artists to help promote lake in New Seven Wonders of Nature

The government is launching international efforts in a bid to promote Israel's image in the world.

Calcalist has learned that the Tourism Ministry recently appealed to American and Canadian pop singers Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber and Russian opera conductor Valery Gergiev, to help promote the Dead Sea in the New Seven Wonders of Nature competition."

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#BDS- & the Anti-Boycott Law

"#BDS- Boycott Divest & Sanction, an acronym bearing three words heavy with the wisdom of resistance, three words that embody a struggle fought on various fronts & a new position of power in the deeply intertwined conflict.

1. Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall;
2. Recognizing the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
3. Respecting, protecting and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194."

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#BDS: Boycott #Israel Cartoon by @CarlosLatuff

#BDS: Video: Portland BDS Coalition Flash Mob

#BDS: لاعبات فلسطينيات يلتقين لاعبات صهيونيات

أظهرت صور نشرتها مواقع إخبارية إلكترونية مشاركة لاعبات في " المنتخب الفلسطيني النسوي" في مباراة تطبيع مع فريق صهيوني في كندا قبل فترة وجيزة .

وتظهر الصورة رفع اللاعبات للعلمين الفلسطيني والصهيوني في الملعب بشكل "ودي"، وحسب المواقع فإن أبرز اللاعبات هن "ورا داوود , حنين بيوبي , أسيل مصاروة " ويلعبن في المنتخب النسوي الذي تشرف عليه سلطة فتح بالضفة .

وحسب المواقع فإن "فاخر حمايل" هو المسئول عن تنسيق اللقاء وهدفه تطبيعي مع الرياضة الصهيونية .

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#BDS: Tomorrow! Tell TIAA-CREF to divest from the occupation of #Palestine

"When: Tuesday, July 19, 4:30 - 6 PM

Where: TIAA-CREF headquarters 730 Third Ave (at 45th St)

What: Street protest for divestment from Israel's occupation, with creative chants and songs

Watch the flashmob video: http://bit.ly/flashTC

Why: July 19th is the day of TIAA-CREF's annual shareholders' meeting, held this year in Charlotte, NC. As part of a national campaign, human rights activists in cities across the US will protest to ask retirement-fund giant TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli occupation. TIAA-CREF's motto is "For the Greater Good," but this year, TIAA-CREF leadership refused to allow a shareholder resolution for divestment from Israeli occupation to be placed on the ballot at the annual shareholder meeting. Tell TIAA-CREF they can't escape the call for divestment!

Organized by Adalah-NY: The NY Campaign for the Boycott of Israel; CODEPINK-NYC; Jewish Voice for Peace - NYC; Jewish Voice for Peace - Westchester; Brooklyn For Peace; WESPAC Foundation; Women in Black, Union Square; Jews Say No!

For more information, visit www.wedivest.org.
 

Visit us on line at www.adalahny.org"

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