One year after the AUT’s courageous vote for academic boycott, NATFHE, Britain’s second union for educational and academic staff, voted on Monday in favour of a motion recommending its members boycott Israeli academics and institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to the Occupation and Israel’s racist policies. The 69,000-member National Association of Teachers […]

CUPE Ontario (Canadian Union of Public Employees) has passed a resolution in support of the global campaign to isolate Apartheid Israel committing itself to educate its members and branches about the Apartheid nature of Israel. It further asks the national body of the trade union to initiate research into Canadian involvement and complicity with the […]

The Occupation has approved a decision to expand N. Maskiyot settlement in Jordan Valley. The further land grab for Zionist training space in the settlement will expel Palestinians from even more areas of Wadi al-Maleh. On 21st of May, the Occupation passed a decision to confiscate further 3000 dunums of Palestinian lands in Wadi al-Maleh […]

Settlements are expanding in the Jordan Valley at an amazing speed. All along the Jordan Valley, colonizers are grabbing land and cementing the dispossession of the Palestinian people on the ground. A week ago, colonizers from Rotem settlement, east of Wadi al-Maleh, began putting fences around and isolating 350 dunums of land they stole last […]

The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has launched a Boycott Day on Saturday, 27th of May. From 12-4pm, in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, activists protested against Disney’s investments in Apartheid Israel. The Disney Corporation through its subsidiary group Shamrock plans to invest $100 million in the racist Apartheid state of Israel. This is over and above […]

***image2***In West Bethlehem, between al-Khader and the villages to be isolated in a ghetto on the west side of the Wall, the Occupation has begun building a tunnel under the settler-only road. This construction and the associated land devastation will finalize the isolation of the villages in an unbearable ghetto. Previously, on November 21, 2005, […]

The movement for academic and cultural boycott is growing, particularly in the UK. One indication of this is that The National Association of Teachers in Higher and Further Education (NATHFE) is proposing another boycott motion on Israeli academic institutions in its upcoming annual assembly from May 27-29. NATFHE is active in England, Wales and Northern […]