The Portuguese Ministry of Justice announced that it has withdrawn from a joint EU-funded project with the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, the Israeli National Police and Israel’s Bar Ilan university. The LAW TRAIN project, aimed at unifying police interrogation methodologies, has generated controversy in Portugal because of vocal opposition to Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon 2020 research framework […]
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BDS Quebec targets Montreal based military company over ties with Israel
In Canada a new campaign has started to target military relations with Israel: activists from the network BDS Quebec have launched efforts to stop cooperation between the Montreal based military company CAE Ltd. and the Israeli military as well as Israeli private military companies, Elbit Systems and Aeronautics Ltd. On August 10, 2016, five members […]
Urgent Letter to the Canadian Government
URGENT LETTER TO THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DISMANTLE CORPORATE POWER To the attention of The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Global Affairs Canada The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Friday, August 5th, 2016 In less than a week, the first ever World […]
URGENT ACTION: Sign petition to allow Right to Enter to Palestinians
The Canadian government is threatening not only the participation of delegates from Palestine but from the entire global south in the upcoming World Social Forum (WSF) to be held in Montreal from August 9-14 2016. We urgently need your help! From Palestine alone four delegates – renown activists, trade union leaders, youth activists – have been […]
Stop Mekorot Initiative Wins over Anti-BDS Bill
The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine raised awareness about human rights violations perpetrated by the national Israeli water company, Mekorot, by hand delivering an open letter to the Israeli Consul in Boston. Mekorot has been internationally denounced for implementing since its decades ‘water apartheid’ that is essential for Israeli efforts to colonize Palestinian lands […]
Destruction of Eleven Buidlings in Qalandiya Village
Israel continues its policies of ethnic cleansing and displacement in Qalandiya Village, outside of East Jerusalem with the destruction of eleven newly constructed buildings. On Monday evening around 500 soldiers entered the village with bulldozers to carry out the demolition orders. The buildings would have been home to some 250 people in the small village […]
To the movements in Brazil: Let’s stand together against oppression
From Palestine we are accompanying with great concern the developments in Brazil. We condemn the coup against the democratically elected government and are dismayed at the speed in which the coup government has started implementing its own program, accumulating policies that attack the rights of the people in Brazil and globally. Unfortunately, these developments come […]
Israeli repression fuels Palestinian resistance
Twelve years ago the International Court of Justice in its verdict on the apartheid Wall, ruled the Wall and Israel’s settlement project illegal and reminded the international of its obligation to stop Israeli crimes. Today, in Palestine we are facing a full scale attack to try to subdue Palestinian rebellion flaring up over and over […]
How the Israel lobby promotes corporate impunity
"What is at stake with the attacks against the BDS movement is the possibility of a myriad of social justice movements to hold corporations accountable: if Israel’s logic aimed at suppressing the BDS movement passes, it will shield corporations from accountability for human rights abuses of all sorts, committed by whoever the corporate actor and […]
Europe still funding Israeli torture, drones and racial profiling #Boycott
It is time for European citizens to demand not a penny more of their tax money be spent on Israeli military and security corporations As European leaders are gathered in Brussels to discuss the future of the EU, they would be well advised to put into effect values of accountability, justice and solidarity – and […]