Norwegian Peoples’ Aid and the Norwegian Minister of Finance, Kristin Halvorsen, have called on the Council of Ethics in the Government Pension Fund to reopen the divestment case against the Israel Electric Company (IEC) on account of the recent power cuts to the population of Gaza. The Government Pension Fund has around $20 million invested […]

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation delivered a letter signed by more than 300 US based organizations calling on the House Appropriations Subcommittee to cut off military aid to Israel on account of its repeated violations of the both the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act. The signatories came from […]

Almost unanimously, delegates at CUPW’s national convention held April 13-17 2008 voted to support a resolution calling for a boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel last week. CUPW is the first national union in North America to take this stance. The resolution takes up the Palestinian call for BDS issued in July 2005 by over […]

On the 15th of April a gang of Zionist settlers from the Kedumim settlement uprooted and destroyed more than 1000 mature olive trees in the village of Jeet, located east of Qalqilya. The trees belonged to Zakariya as-Sadha and Dhafer Khalil, both residents of Jeet. This attack is part of larger series of assaults undertaken […]

Land Day was commemorated both across historic Palestine and internationally on the 30th of March. Protests in support of Palestinians where held in the Canary Islands, Brazil and New York, to single out a few locations. In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Palestine Community of the Canary Islands along with al-Zeitun and the Women […]

BDS Newsletter Edition: 02 – March, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Campaign against Leviev The campaign against diamond tycoon Lev Leviev continues to move forward. Leviev initially was targeted by the Adalah-NY coalition for his involvement in funding Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in Jayyous, Bil’in and Jerusalem. Activists have engaged in awareness raising and have staged […]

In Yafa, more than two thousands residents of the city, joined by other Palestinians, organized a mass protest to on the 29th, one day before Land Day. Yafa, also known as the bride of the sea, was occupied in 1948 by Zionist forces that expelled the majority of the original Palestinian residents from the city. […]