Still Think Boycotts Don’t Work? Think again.
guardian.co.uk Israeli exports hit by European boycotts after attacks on Gaza A fifth of Israeli exporters report drop in demand as footage of Gaza attacks changes behaviour of consumers and investors Rachel Shabi, in Tel Aviv guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 April 2009 16.16 BST Israeli companies are feeling the impact of boycott moves in Europe, according to surveys, amid growing concern within the Israeli business sector over organised campaigns following the recent attack on Gaza. Last week, the...
Read MoreAnti-war MP George Galloway has been banned from Canada
Anti-war MP George Galloway has been banned from Canada, it emerged today. A Canadian spokesman confirmed that the Respect MP had been deemed inadmissible on national security grounds and would not be allowed into the country. Galloway today branded the ban “idiotic” and vowed to fight the ruling with “all means” at his disposal. He is due to give a speech in Toronto on 30 March. Earlier today The Sun said border security officials had declared Galloway, 54,...
Read MoreIsraeli Apartheid Week
March 1 – 8, 2009 is marked globally as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). It is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is taking place in more than 40 cities across the globe (the number of cities is growing daily). This year,...
Read MoreIsraeli Apartheid Week
March 1 – 8, 2009 is marked globally as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). It is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is taking place in more than 40 cities across the globe (the number of cities is growing daily). This year,...
Read More30th Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution
February 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Why do we refer to it as the Islamic revolution and not the Iranian revolution and how is this revolution different from other revolutions or changes that have occured in the world in the past. In the 50′s and 60′s in the last century there where number of coups and other kinds of changes that occured in the muslim world and other parts of the world that where often refered to as revolutions for instance . ....
Read MoreIsrael continues killings in the midst of global protests
Israel continued its bloody offensive against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for the second successive day on Sunday, the worst since 1948, rising the number of martyrs so far to more than 300 1,133, including 207410 children, and the number of injured to well over 7005,300, most of them seriously. The death toll is likely to increase dramatically given the number of serious injuries and the lack of medicare and first aid means. “Palestine has never seen an uglier...
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