***image2***The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza assault that investigates violations of human rights and international law committed in the context of the Israeli assault on Gaza in December 08/January 2009 will hear as well accounts of the repression meted out in the West Bank during this period. As during any war and […]
Two new fact sheets have been released. The first, âThe Palestinian economy â Occupation, de-development and normalisation,â gives a concise summary of Stop the Wall’s economic analysis, within which we clarify how the dominant approach to investment and development in Palestine serves to strengthen the Wall, checkpoints and military closures, creating âsustainableâ ghettos in the […]
Canadian author and activists Naomi Klein visited Palestine this past week for the release of the translation of her book, The Shock Doctrine. Mrs. Klein visited the village of Bil’in, where she held a press conference explaining her position on boycott. The following night, she spoke in front of pack hall in Ramallah about the […]
Last January, Georges Frêche, the President of the Luanguedoc-Roussillon region announced the setting-up of Agrexco on the port of Sète, promising with it the creation of jobs along with incoming profits. The setting up Agrexco on the port of Sète has sparked controversy among the French population. A total of fifty organisations have joined the […]
Over the past several weeks, the village of Bil’in has been targeted by near-nightly raids. Occupation forces have abducted children and threatened activists in the most systematic campaign of arrests against the village in some time. A total of eight people, most of them youth, have been kidnapped since these raids began. The most recent […]
***image2***Last Monday settlers, under the protection of Occupation forces, bulldozed 40 dunums of land belonging to the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem. Villagers had planted olives, grapevines, fig and other fruit trees on the land, which is a source of livelihood for many families in this village of over 10,000 people. The move is […]
On Saturday, June 20, activists gathered at Trader Joeâs grocery stores in Oakland and San Francisco to demand that the company stop carrying Israeli goods. Protesters removed Israeli products from the shelves, distributed leaflets about Israeli apartheid, and handed out coupons for customers to give to cashiers asking the store to stop stocking Israeli herbs, […]
BDS NEWSLETTER Edition: 15 – May, 2009 CORPORATE NEWS Protesting Leviev, remembering Bi’lin on Mother’s Day On the day before Motherâs Day, 40 New York human rights advocates gathered at the Leviev jewelry store on Madison Avenue and called on throngs of weekend Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev over his […]
***image1***In another major victory for the global ‘Derail Veoloa and Alstom’ campaign and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Australia, the Victorian State Government has chosen not to renew Connex’ (a subsidiary of Veolia) contract as the train system operator in Melbourne Australia. This is no doubt partly due to the efforts of […]
From June 19 to 21, Pax Christi Germany held their annual conference on Palestine, this time entitled âReason of state and international lawâ at the academy of the German Protestant church in Bad Boll. The conference was noteworthy for a number of reasons, among them the focus on concrete BDS actions and the growing of […]
