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Category Archives: BDS
PennBDS still being smeared two weeks after student conference
Though it has been two weeks since the much-discussed PennBDS conference, it seems that some opponents of Palestine solidarity simply cannot let it go.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, US Politics
Tagged featured
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Israeli government sending 100 Israelis abroad to ‘defend the state’ during Israel Apartheid Week
Israel’s Public Diplomacy Ministry plans an intensive hasbara campaign to counter Israel Apartheid Week.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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Ambassadors of Apartheid: Batsheva Dance Company to tour San Francisco and New York
In the next few weeks activists in New York and San Francisco will protest the Batsheva Dance Company because the ensemble receives Israeli government funding as part of the “Brand Israel” campaign.
Presbyterian investment committee recommends divestment from Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola over complicity in the occupation

The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee is recommending that the denomination divest its holdings in three companies – Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, US Politics
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Video: right-wing groups attack U.S. professors over Ilan Pappe speaking tour
A group called the AMCHA Initiative, founded by University of California faculty, launched a campaign against three California professors over an upcoming Ilan Pappe speaking tour.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons
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Khader Adnan, 61 days on a hunger strike, near death
A Palestinian prisoner on his 61st day of hunger strike while shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report submitted to the supreme court in an effort to secure his release.
BDS interview fallout: Finkelstein ‘showed his own fear of the paradigm shift in discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
Three responses to Norman Finkelstein’s interview slamming the BDS movement.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
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‘A level of racist violence I have never seen’: UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement
UCLA professor Robin D.G. Kelley just returned from a delegation to Israel/Palestine with the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and speaks to Mondoweiss about Palestine, BDS, black Zionism and much more.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged academic boycott, Americans for Middle East Understanding, featured, Grace Halsell, Jesse Jackson, Jewish Defense League, Marcus Garvey, PLO, Robin Kelley, Students for Justice in Palestine, USACBI, Vanguard Leadership Group
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In photos: PennBDS
Sara Jawhari’s exclusive photographs of the watershed Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference held at the University of Pennsylvania.
Out of the Ballpark: Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference
A video and partial notes from Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Occupation, US Politics
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Six US activists arrested in Bahrain while monitoring military crackdown
Yesterday, six international activists where arrested in Bahrain while attempting to monitor the government crackdown on protesters commemorating the one year anniversary of uprisings.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Middle East
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Happy Valentines Day: Anonymous takes down web sites for tear gas company and Bahrain government
Marking today’s anniversary of the Bahrain anti-government uprising, the hacker group Anonymous shut down the Bahrain government’s website, along with the websites of several U.S. manufacturers of “less than lethal” weapons.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Politics
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Norman Finkelstein slams the BDS movement calling it ‘a cult’

Norman Finkelstein on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Recorded at Imperial College London on February 9, 2012.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Occupation, One state/Two states, Reports/Video
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News roundup on the 59th day of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike
As Khader Adnan entered his 59th day on hunger strike, his wife Randa appealed for the international community to end his isolation and save his life.
Radio Against Apartheid: People of Color in the US and Palestinian Queers for BDS
Darnell Moore, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, a Jewish Arab writer and co-founder of intersections/intersecciones consulting, joined us on the program. The two recently returned from a delegation as guests of Palestinian Queers for BDS to the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank.
Israeli military escalating arrests in Hebron of boys aged 12-15 years old; at least 10 children arrested last week
Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week The extreme Golani Unit of the Israeli military is escalating its arrests of Palestinian children in Al Khalil (Hebron), targeting boys between the ages of 12 to15 years … Continue reading
The 8th annual ‘Israeli Apartheid week’ is focused on BDS
Apartheid week is more than just a week of solidarity; it’s a week of community. To find out how you can get involved visit apartheidweek.org.
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
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Norcal Activists take on Veolia
Northern California take on Veolia, pressuring Sonoma Country to sever contracts with the bus operator due to the French company’s violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Hasbara PennBDS wrap-up: Pro-Israel students are ignorant
After the PennBDS conference, the a Philadelphia based Jewish weekly paper describes pro-Israel students as “ignorant,” citing Hasbara as “ill-equipped” to challenge BDS calls for justice and human rights.
BDS: Rock musician Cat Power cancels Tel Aviv gig
chan marshall @CATPOWER DUE TO MUCH CONFUSION IN MY SOUL,PLAYİNG FOR MY İSRAELİ FANS W/SUCH UNREST BETWEEN İSRAEL&PALESTİNE I CAN’T PLAY,I FEEL SICK IN MY SPIRIT XX He War I never meant to be the needle that broke your back … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
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As Khader Adnan struggles through his 55th day on a hunger strike, a reminder that he has not been charged with a crime
Khader Adnan enters the 55th day of his hungry strike in Israeli detention, he has not been charged with anything Palestinian hunger striker nearing death A Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike for 55 days to protest against his detention … Continue reading
Musings on Post-Apartheid Israel
With models from South Africa to Jim Crow, Sylvia Schwarz muses over the aesthetics of a post-apartheid Israel/Palestine.
Settlers spray ‘Death to Christians’ on a monastery, ‘Death to Arabs’ on a school and ‘Mohammad is a pig’ on village entrance
More “pricetag” attacks by Israeli settlers
Faith-based communities provide fertile ground for boycott movement
Last Saturday at the Penn BDS Conference, Susan Landau moderated a panel of religious speakers who are supporting boycott and divestment. Here are her opening and closing remarks. INTRODUCTION. The road to equality and justice is well lit by people … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine
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Jewish substitution and the white gaze
Penn BDS conference avoided identity politics. But I said the New York Times will discover the Nakba by having a Jew write about it
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics
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