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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 19, 2012
#BDS: PACBI Thank You Letter to @mashrou3leila #fuckIsrael
" Dear Mashrou3 Leila,
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We, at the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) wish to salute you for your principled decision not to perform with RHCP, a band that insists on entertaining apartheid and violating the cultural boycott of Israel.
You have set a precedent and set the bar high for others to follow, and you have sent a message that bands who play in Israel should not be allowed to benefit from our markets. Today you prioritized your principles and commitment to human rights over immediate personal gains for your band. It is indeed rare to see this kind of altruistic commitment, and we thank you for it."
#BDS: Los Angeles activists put #Veolia’s complicity with Israel’s human rights violations in the spotlight #fuckIsrael
"Last week, activists with various Palestine solidarity and BDS groups under the umbrella of the Dump Veolia coalition came together in protest of the city of Los Angeles’ efforts to renew contracts worth $160 million with Veolia, a French multinational urban transportation and systems corporation, for the city’s transportation needs.
Because of its involvement in contracting with Israel to build a light rail system that will connect West Jerusalem with settlement colonies in East Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, Veolia has been a longtime target of BDS campaigns, especially in Europe and Australia. The corporation has lost billions of dollars worth of contracts as a result of sustained pressure on local councils by boycott activists since 2008."
Read more#BDS: Pro-Israel lobby in South Africa outplayed by BDS campaign #fuckIsrael
" The well-organized, well-funded anti-Israel lobby in South Africa, which presses primarily for boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS ) is overpowering the local pro-Israel lobby, a veteran analyst of Israel-South African relations told Haaretz.
"The BDS campaign is very well run and seems to be well-funded. Maybe local Jewish leaders have relied for too long on their relations with ANC leaders who have in case moved on now - such as former president Nelson Mandela - and it's time for the Jewish leadership to do some hard strategizing," said attorney Howard Sackstein, founder and vice-chairman of Jews for Social Justice, the Jewish Anti-Apartheid movement."
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Sep 18, 2012
#BDS activists inject Middle East debate into L.A. bus contract discussion #fuckIsrael
"A group of activists affiliated with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, or B.D.S. movement, which seeks to pressure Israel in various ways, publicly opposed the renewal of a bus contract between the city of Los Angeles and a company whose corporate parent does business in the West Bank.
At a meeting of the Los Angeles City Council transportation committee on Sept. 12, members of the Dump Veolia LA Coalition urged the committee members to oppose renewal of a contract with Veolia Transportation to operate DASH shuttle bus services in the Downtown and Mid-City areas."
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#BDS: Berlin Jewish Museum event calls for Israel boycott #fuckIsrael
"The internationally renowned Jewish Museum in Berlin hosted a podium discussion on Saturday with US academic Judith Butler, who renewed her calls to boycott Israel. It appears to be the first anti-Israel event held in the Jewish museum since its opening in 2001 with the aim of exhibiting the 2,000- year history of Germany’s Jews. At least 700 people attended the event.
The German taxpayer-funded museum’s decision to showcase a speaker in the capital city, which during the Nazi period served as the launching pad for a boycott movement against German-Jewish businesses, has raised eyebrows about the management’s direction of the museum."
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Sep 15, 2012
#BDS: تضامناً مع جوديث بتلر المثقفة العادلة #fuckIsrael
أصدرت «الحملة الفلسطينية للمقاطعة الأكاديمية والثقافية لإسرائيل» (PACBI) واتحاد نقابات أساتذة وموظفي الجامعات الفلسطينية، و«الاتحاد العام للكتاب والأدباء الفلسطينيين»، و«جمعية أساتذة الجامعات ـ غزة» بياناً نددوا فيه بالحملة الاسرائيلية على جوديث بتلر التي تسلّمت يوم الثلاثاء الماضي جائزة «أدورنو» في فرانكفورت، هي المعروفة بنقدها الشرس لاسرائيل ودعمها لـ«حركة مقاطعة إسرائيل وسحب الاستثمارات منها وفرض العقوبات عليها» (BDS).
إقرأ\ي المزيد#BDS: معرض «بلاد العجائب» جمع فنانين فلسطينيين واسرائيليين #fuckIsrael
صفعة قوية تلقتها الحملات الفلسطينية والعالمية الهادفة إلى مقاطعة إسرائيل في المجالين الثقافي والأكاديمي. معرض «بلاد العجائب» جمع فنانين فلسطينيين واسرائيليين بمبادرة من «بلدية حيفا» التي لا يختلف أحد على عنصريتها الممنهجة بحق أهل المدينة الباقين في أرضهم
حيفا | في أول مشروع كبير يكسر حالة الإجماع على مقاطعة المؤسسة الاسرائيلية والأنشطة التي تصب في خدمتها، افتتح رئيس «بلدية حيفا» الاحتلالية يونا ياهف، وعضو البرلمان الألماني وولفغانغ غيركي، وشخصيات إسرائيلية وألمانية حكومية، معرضاً فنياً أول من أمس الثلاثاء يحمل عنوان «بلاد العجائب ــ فنانون اسرائيليون وفلسطينيون: الصراع السياسي في الفن». يقام المعرض في كل من «بيت الفنانين» التابع لـ«رابطة الفنانين والنحاتين الإسرائيليين» و«الغاليري الجديد للفن المعاصر» في حيفا. ويشارك فيه حوالي 16 فناناً فلسطينياً إلى جانب أكثر من 20 فناناً إسرائيلياً، بالإضافة إلى مشاركة كاتبين هما الاسرائيلي تسفيكا شطرنفيلد وعلاء حليحل محرر موقع «قديتا» الالكتروني.
إقرأ\ي المزيد#BDS: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions [ICAHD] endorses one-state solution #fuckIsrael
"Over the past 15 years, ICAHD has actively resisted the Israeli Occupation. For almost that long we have argued that the two-state solution is dead and gone, based on our intimate knowledge both of Israeli politics and the massive “facts” that Israel has imposed on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and constantly expands. However, ICAHD has refrained from advocating for any particular solution to the conflict, believing that is the Palestinians’ prerogative. We do not rule out the two-state solution in principle (although it is not fair or just), especially if the Palestinians nevertheless decide to go that way. ICAHD supports any solution – be it two-state, one-state or regional – which offers a just and inclusive peace and is acceptable to our Palestinian partners. In fact, because a workable resolution of the conflict must involve the entire region, we have long proposed a Middle East economic confederation including, at a minimum, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. From that perspective, the creation of a single state in Palestine/Israel may represent only a stage, albeit an unavoidable stage, towards a more comprehensive solution."
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#BDS: Why a boycott of Israeli academics is fully justified by @benabyad #fuckIsrael
"Steve Caplan believes that calls for the academic boycott of Israel, part of the wider Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign, are hypocritical and counterproductive. Leaving aside his Israel advocacy "talking points" version of history, Caplan's argument has three significant flaws.
First, his only really substantive case against the boycott as a tactic is the claim that it is "aimed at the very segment of the population" – those in academia – who back Palestinian statehood and "compromise".
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#BDS Earlham College drops Sabra hummus over involvement in Israeli human rights violations #fuckIsrael
In Response to Student and Faculty Concerns, Earlham College’s Dining Services Decides to Stop Selling Sabra Products
On the 5th of September, Earlham College’s dining service agreed to have Sabra Hummus removed from the coffee shop after being informed of the involvement in Israeli human rights violations in Palestine by Strauss Group Ltd., of which Sabra Dipping Company, LLC is a subsidiary. The decision comes after a group of concerned students and faculty approached Earlham’s dining services requesting the removal of the product from the college’s facilities.
On the 5th of September, Earlham College’s dining service agreed to have Sabra Hummus removed from the coffee shop after being informed of the involvement in Israeli human rights violations in Palestine by Strauss Group Ltd., of which Sabra Dipping Company, LLC is a subsidiary. The decision comes after a group of concerned students and faculty approached Earlham’s dining services requesting the removal of the product from the college’s facilities.
Strauss Group Ltd. provides financial support and supplies to the Golani and Givati brigades of the Israeli army, which is responsible for enforcing Israel’s illegal, 45-year-old military occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands, and other grave and systematic human rights abuses.
“We applaud Earlham College’s dining service for taking this principled stand and refusing to do business with Sabra Dipping Company,” said Basil Farraj, of BDS Earlham. “Earlham students will no longer be unwittingly supporting Israeli abuses of Palestinian human rights when they purchase hummus and other products on campus.”
Earlham College’s dining services has promised to provide an alternative for the removed product, and were quick to note that they take student concerns seriously and follow through with immediate action.
Two years ago students launched a campaign calling on Earlham College to divest from Motorola Solutions, Caterpillar, and Hewlett Packard, companies that profit from and enable Israeli violations of international law. Last semester students with BDS Earlham also launched a “Dorm Storm” that has continued into the current school year, visiting all dorms and houses on campus and engaging in discussions with students to educate them about Earlham BDS and the larger global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which was launched by Palestinian civil society in 2005. Source
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Sep 12, 2012
#BDS Report: South Korea complicit in Israel occupation #fuckIsrael
"Palestine Peace & Solidarity in South Korea (PPS), a Seoul-based group part of the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, launched a report denouncing South Korea's complicity with Israel's regime of occupation, colonization and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The report details Korea's ties with Israel at the military, economic, academic and cultural levels. This relationship, the report contends, has contributed to Israel's impunity and lack of accountability. "
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#BDS: The Baramki House: The Absent / Present #fuckIsrael
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"In 1932, the prominent Palestinian architect, Andoni Baramki, built his own breathtaking house in Jerusalem. He dedicated it to his wife, Eveline. In 1948, during the Zionist ethnic cleansing campaign, or Nakba, the Baramki family, like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, were uprooted and ended up briefly in Gaza, and then in Ramallah. The Baramki House was transformed into a military outpost: the Turjeman Post. The building stood on the seam line between what became Israel and what became the West Bank, across from Mandelbaum Gate, the only crossing point between the two sides of the divided city of Jerusalem.
After the 1967 war, Israel occupied the rest of historic Palestine and put the West Bank and Gaza Strip under its military control. The Mandelbaum Gate was abolished and the military outpost was abandoned. Since Andoni and Eveline Baramki were residents in the now occupied East Jerusalem, they were issued Israeli identity cards from the Israeli authorities. The Israeli army had no more need for the house as a post, so the Baramki family felt their quest to reclaim the House could finally come to fruition. Alas, the family’s request was denied by the Israeli authorities under the racist Absentees’ Property Law of 1950, which was used to pillage the property of Palestinians ethnically cleansed during the Nakba and even those who were internally displaced and declared as “present absentees.”(1) This infamous law recognizes the presence of internally displaced Palestinians as “residents or “citizens” of the state of Israel, but “absent” as far as their own individual property is concerned."
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