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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/anti-israel-economic-boycotts-are-gaining-speed-1.312210

Article on the boycott in the Jewish Daily Forward

From YNet

by Jennifer Lipman, August 12, 2010

 

The RMT transport union has passed a motion condemning Israel at an international conference representing more than 4,600,000 union members.

Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, August 2010 ... We are a group of students from Gaza, and our only fault is being Palestinians. For that, Mr. Corea, we are imprisoned with our families and loved ones in what major Human Rights Organizations call the largest open air prison in modern history. The state you are planning to entertain, committed a process of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous people in 1948. And now it is engaged in, what the Israeli academic Ilan Pappe calls, “slow motion genocide” against the 1.5 million population of Gaza.

South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, Washington.

Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international law. Present at the handing-in were Brendan Archbold, the trade union official at the centre of the 1980s Dunnes strike when workers refused to handle South African goods, Freda Hughes IPSC National Chairperson, Aengus O'Snodaigh of Sinn Fein along with supporters of the campaign and members of both the Palestinian and South African communities in Ireland.

About ten people from Scottish PSC and Friends of Al Aqsa turned out at the Glasgow O2 ABC yesterday evening (26th) to leaflet the audience arriving for the PIL/John Lydon gig. Despite hostility from a few, most took leaflets and many expressed support, including a BBC Radio Scotland presenter. Spare leaflets were put to good use decorating the tour bus.

from the Jewish Chronicle

From Independent Middle-East Media Centre