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Moroccan human rights organisations and associations have demanded the dismissal of the Israeli company, "G4S", from Morocco stating that they intend to call on representative institutions and official bodies...
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Middle East,
News
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Senior Fatah member Marwan Barghouti has called on the movement's head, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not to resume negotiations with the Israelis. Barghouti said that the results would...
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Middle East,
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Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said he does not want to live in a "racist state which controls millions of Palestinians through oppression and racism but...
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Middle East,
News
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South Africa's Ambassador to Israel, Ismail Coovadia, has rejected a 'gift' from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The 'gift' came in the form of a certificate [click to...
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Middle East,
News
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Jordan's National Anti-Normalisation Committee (NANC), which lobbies against normalising relations with Israel, has condemned Jordanian merchants who import Israeli products into the Kingdom. The Committee asked the Jordanian government...
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Middle East,
News
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On Friday the Israeli foreign ministry asked Dutch ambassador Caspar Veldkamp for "clarification" on the Dutch pension manager PGGM's decision to divest in Israeli banks that have branches in...
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Middle East,
News
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The South African Ambassador to Palestine Professor M W Makalima has visited the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday where the two discussed issues...
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Middle East,
News
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the European Union's opposition to Israel building or expanding settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. He is said to be...
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Middle East,
News
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The government of Morocco has announced that it will not invite Israeli scientists to attend a scientific conference in Fez, local newspapers said on Friday. The news was confirmed...
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Africa,
News
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Human rights groups, trade unions and several other major civil society organisations have called for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to exclude Israel. The international diamond regulatory body is...
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Africa,
News
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Brooklyn College in New York is going ahead with a conference highlighting the importance of an academic and economic boycott of Israel despite intense pressure from US Jewish organisations...
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More than 100 American professors and teaching staff at Columbia University have called for five American companies to withdraw their investment in Israeli jails over "breaches of human rights...
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Canada's largest Protestant church, the United Church of Canada, has decided to boycott three Israeli companies as part of its campaign against products manufactured in illegal settlements in the...
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VIDEOBelow is a statement from the 'Students Against Israeli Apartheid': On 4th June, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson Centre to offer a so-called...
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The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has ratified a proposal to impose an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Israeli newspaper Maariv said that the union, which has 14,000...
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British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has backed an academic boycott of Israel as he announcing he would not attend a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the...
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A number of well-known and renowned figures and institutes have announced their boycott of Israeli president Shimon Peres's conference scheduled to be held in Jerusalem next month. This boycott...
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The authorities in Holland have refused to prosecute a Dutch construction company which supplied construction equipment to Israeli companies for use in building the so-called "Separation Barrier" in the...
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Haaretz newspaper has reported that the European Union has given into US pressure and postponed a decision to label settlement products, in order to distinguish them from other Israeli...
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The European Union yesterday denied reports by Israeli media outlets regarding the postponement of its decision to label Israeli settlement products. A statement was made by the EU delegation...
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Three major supermarkets in the Netherlands have announced their boycott of Israeli settlement products, following the European Union announcement of its own plan to boycott such items. Dutch newspaper...
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Israeli officials have expressed their anger at the EU move against any dealings with settlements in the West Bank because they are built on Palestinian, not Israeli, land. EU...
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Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considering a boycott of the EU Research and Development Horizon 2020 programme. The move is being seen as a possible response to Europe's...
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In the wake of the EU decision to boycott Israel's settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli scientists and research institutes have warned that cutting academic ties with the...
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Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has claimed that several European countries have warned their businessmen against trading with companies based in or producing goods on Israeli settlements. The newspaper said...
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The Dutch government has asked local firms not to deal with Israeli companies working in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories because this violates international law. Israel fears...
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A group of 15 former EU officials sent a letter on Sunday to EU foreign policy chief Katharine Ashton and to the foreign ministers of the 28 EU member...
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Diplomats have warned of the growing boycott of Israel and accused the European Union of creating an atmosphere which encourages and gives legitimacy to NGOs not to cooperate with...
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Israeli officials and diplomats have threatened to "cut ties with the EU" should the latter impose a boycott on Israel. They said that the first step would be to...
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Eight years ago this week, a coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations issued the global call for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in response to...
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Activism,
Article
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Last April, the Zionist Organization of America and the student group Owls for Israel invited Israeli Colonel Bentzi Gruber to speak at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Gruber was traveling...
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Activism,
Article
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Many Western activists are sceptical of the role of religion in Palestine solidarity. Beyond the problem of Islamophobia, which is sadly manifest across the political spectrum, activist views of...
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Activism,
Article