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BDS NEWSLETTER Edition: 03 – May, 2008 CORPORATE NEWS Feature: Jayyous students call for boycott of Leviev Students from Jayyous have written an open letter to the people of Dubai, calling for a boycott of Leviev’s diamonds. Leviev has been the target of a number of attacks for his dealings in Angola, business practices in […]

The actions in Ni’lin continued yesterday, part of nearly daily demonstrations against the last phase of the construction of the Wall. Around 500 people turned out for yesterday’s demonstration against the construction of the Wall. The current route of the Wall will strip the village of a further 2,500 dunums of land from the village. […]

In the past weeks, the village of Ni’lin has been a site of active struggle against the latest Occupation land grab. Frequent protests and confrontations between villagers and Occupation soldiers have occurred on the site where bulldozers are razing land to build the latest segment of the Wall. This new section will isolate 2,500 dunums […]

The following is a statement from South Africa, supported by a wide range of voices and institutions, condemning the celebration of Occupation apartheid: We fought apartheid; we see no reason to celebrate it in Israel now! We, South Africans who faced the might of an unjust and brutal apartheid machinery in South Africa and fought […]

Across Venezuela, numerous activities in Caracas, Valencia, Barcelona, Barquisimeto, San Felipe de Yaracuy and other Venezuelan cities and towns marked the 60th anniversary of the Nakba. Events included photo exhibitions, public speeches, film screenings, poetry, street theater and a public Arab food fair. On May 14, at the National Assembly, there was a speech of […]

From 29 April – 5 May, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) hosted their “Ask a Palestinian” exhibition in Dublin. The exhibition connected Palestinians from across historic Palestine with the Irish public. The event allowed people from Ireland to speak directly with a number of Palestinians about the Nakba, life in the West Bank, Gaza […]

With the Palestine Investment Conference (PIC) beginning tomorrow in Bethlehem and the celebrated reforms and development projects proposed last year by the Fayyad government, understanding development in Palestine is more important than ever. Both the PIC and the Fayyad development programs have already elicited severe criticism from Palestinian civil society, political opposition and local communities. […]

On May 14 and 15, the Greek Intifada Association organized demonstrations in front of the Israeli embassy in Athens. Organizers issued a statement denouncing the premeditated ethnic cleansing and massacres that occurred in 1948 as well as the expansionist aggression of the Occupation state. The policies of apartheid and ghettoization were also decried, with the […]