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On December 12, activists from Dubai joined the campaign against Lev Leviev, as they urged residents of Dubai to boycott the jeweller during the screening of a documentary film on activist hip hop at the Dubai Film Festival. Forty T-shirts and one hundred letters from the West Bank village of Jayyous were distributed to the […]

BDS NEWSLETTER Edition: 09 – November, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Unilever to sell stake in plant based in West Bank settlement The food and soap manufacturing multinational Unilever has announced that it will divest from an Israeli factory in Ariel settlement, which is illegally built on land confiscated from Palestinians. In this latest instance of corporations […]

On Friday, the popular committee of the villages affected by the Homesh settlement went to celebrate the almost complete retreat of the settlers. Hundreds of people gathered after prayer at the mosque of Burqa and marched together to the Homesh settlement. ***image2***Just in front of the settlement, they started planting trees and reclaiming their land […]

The European Parliament (EP) has recently announced that a vote will be held on December 4 to enter into force the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which will enable far greater Israeli participation in European Community programs. Originally, the EU had stated that the vote on this issue would not take place until 2009, but it seems […]

Settlers attempting to repopulate Homesh settlement have recently been forced to abandon their efforts, in the face of mounting protests against their presence. On Saturday afternoon, the settlers were seen packing their belongings and leaving the settlement, signalling an apparent victory for the Palestinian villagers in the area who rejected the return of Jewish settlers […]

On November 28, Occupation forces announced that they would soon begin construction on a segment of the Wall at the northern entrance to the village of Azzun, in the Qalqilya district. This will mean the confiscation of seven dunums of village land in order to establish a 3.5 km segment of the Wall. Occupation forces […]

***image1***On 26 November, Cairo University students organized a demonstration in protest of the ongoing siege of Gaza. The action was violently suppressed by Egyptian police. In downtown Cairo, Egyptian students held a mass march and demonstration, calling for an end to the siege on Gaza. According to press reports, a 600 strong state police force […]