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150 Irish artists announce Israel cultural boycott Jack Khoury | Haaretz | 14/08/2010 | Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign signs artists to pledge saying they will refrain from performing in Israel as long as it abuses Palestinian human rights. More than 150 Irish artists and intellectuals have declared Saturday a boycott of Israel, saying they would not perform or exhibit in Israel until Israel ceases what they call its abuse of (...) The silent treatment by William Parry | NewStatesman | 03/09/2010 | Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack tells William Parry why he is boycotting Israel. The movement for a cultural boycott of Israel in response to its treatment of the Palestinians, modelled on the boycott of apartheid South Africa, could eclipse decades of disingenuous political charades in engaging western intellectuals, academics and artists. (...) Israeli Military Closes Access to School for Palestinian Children Maria Chiara Rioli for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) | 25/08/2010 | On the same day that Israeli human rights associations Ir Amim and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) released a report denouncing the lack of classrooms in East Jerusalem, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem announces that children of the kindergarten of Bethany (Shayyah) “can no more reach their (...) Israel’s Ministry of Education : No Seminar on Nakba for Kindergarten Teachers Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) | 22/08/2010 | Israel’s Ministry of Education ordered kindergarten teachers to not attend a seminar on the topic of introducing the Nakba to curriculum across the country. The daylong seminar, scheduled for Tuesday, 17 August, was organized by the organization Zochrot (remembering). Zochrot is a group of Israeli citizens working to (...) Israeli theater actors refuse to perform at new West Bank cultural center By Chaim Levinson | Haaretz | 26/08/2010 | A Haaretz report on Wednesday that major Israeli theaters will travel across the Green Line for the first time to perform at a new theater at Ariel has sparked some stormy reactions : Two actors from the national theater, Habima, Yousef Sweid and Rami Heuberger, have already announced that they will not appear in any plays in Ariel. Sweid, who is (...) Réponse de Michel Warchawsky à la CGT Approfondissons le débat, maintenons l’unité (Réponse de M. Warchawsky à la réponse de Jean François COURBE de la CGT sur la campagne BDS) Cher camarade Jean François, Militant, en Israël, dans le cadre de Boycott from Within (Boycott de l’intérieur), ta prise de position, au nom de la CGT, sur cette campagne m’interpelle et me fais rebondir sur certaines de tes affirmations. On aura certainement (...) No place in university dorms for Arabs who didn’t serve in IDF Jack Khoury | Haaretz | 12/08/2010 | After influx of students from abroad, Tel Aviv university changed points system to grant more weight to military service records, Arab students say. Dozens of Arab students at Tel Aviv University were denied spots in college dormitories for the coming academic year, due to preference given to students with military records, students said a secretary in (...) A Gaza, la tête dans les étoiles pour échapper au blocus par KARIM LEBHOUR | La Croix | 17/08/2010 | KHAN YOUNÈS Suleiman Baraka, astrophysicien de 45 ans formé à Paris, veut élargir l’horizon des enfants de Gaza L’œil vissé au télescope, Suleiman Baraka fouille le ciel de Gaza. Un point rougeâtre apparaît dans l’oculaire. « C’est Mars ! » s’exclame-t-il, tandis qu’une foule de gamins impatients trépignent bruyamment derrière lui. La nuit vient de tomber, et la (...) Que doit faire la France face à la politique de colonisation israélienne en Cisjordanie ? Ghislain Poissonnier, magistrat, et Pierre Osseland, avocat | lemonde.fr | 16/08/2010 | A l’heure où le moratoire temporaire sur la construction de nouvelles colonies en Cisjordanie décidé par le gouvernement Nétanyahou s’approche de son terme, quelle doit être la position de la France face à la politique de colonisation israélienne ? Un bref retour en arrière s’impose. Depuis 1967, les (...) Lettre d’ONG chrétiennes à François Fillon concernant la politique israélienne La Croix | 29 Juillet 2010 | Le Secours catholique, la Cimade , les Amis de Sabeel-France, l’Acat-France et le Defap ont écrit mercredi 28 juillet au gouvernement pour lui demander d’agir « en conformité avec les obligations juridiques auxquelles [la France] est soumise », afin qu’Israël « respecte les droits fondamentaux des Palestiniens ». Elles avaient été interpellées par des chrétiens (...) Academic Boycott against Israel ? Umberto Eco misses the point PACBI | 10 July 2010 | This opinion piece has a story behind it. When Umberto Eco’s harsh opinion piece against the cultural boycott of Israel appeared in the Italian newspaper L’espresso [1], PACBI decided that a rebuttal was in order. Two PACBI members contacted the newspaper through an Italian colleague to ask that a rebuttal be published in the newspaper. After much negotiation and many (...) Supporting the call for sanctions against the Israeli academic institutions by Emmanuel Farjoun By Emmanuel Farjoun | AURDIP | 23/07/2010 | Recently there was an extensive discussion in Haaretz about the call for sanctions against Israeli industry and institutions, including academia. Here are some reasons for supporting sanctions. Take the example of academia. The present situation in which the EU considers Israel as almost equal to any European country in regards to most (...) Israel must change or collapse : On the impact of BDS By Rachel Giora | Boycott ! | July 1st, 2010 | In the eyes of the world, the question is what can be done when the relevant institutions do not succeed in enforcing international law ? Tanya Reinhart (May 5, 2005)(1) Despite the recent atrocities inflicted by Israelis on Palestinians and internationals, despite the deteriorating status of human rights experienced by Israeli citizens both (...) India chapter formed to campaign against Israel Monday, Jul 12, 2010 | The Hindu | NEW DELHI : The India chapter of the international movement to campaign for academic and cultural boycott of Israel has been formed by a group of intellectuals. “Just as it was in the case of the international call against South Africa in the apartheid years, we are confident that this boycott will be effective in contributing to international pressure on (...) Why Israeli academia will be boycotted By Moshe Shoked | Haaretz | 30.06.10 | In the past two years I have been invited to take part in many conferences hosted by the American Anthropological Association. The topic of discussion at these forums has been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I agreed to take on a thankless task not as a spokesman for Israel’s education ministers or as a mouthpiece of the right or left. I appeared (...) Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them Rachel Shabi in Jerusalem and Peter Beaumont | The Observer | 11 July 2010 | An academic backlash has erupted in Israel over proposed new laws, backed by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, to criminalise a handful of Israeli professors who openly support a campaign against the continuing occupation of the West Bank. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel has (...) Boycotting Israel, A Strategy, Not a Principle By NEVE GORDON | CounterPunch | 12 JUly 2010 | There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding about the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions). As John Berger explained a while back, BDS is not a principle but a strategy ; it is not against Israel but against Israeli policy ; when the policy changes BDS will end. BDS is also not about a particular solution to the Israeli-Palestinian (...) JPost : Hollywood stars snub major Israeli film festival By RUTH EGLASH | jpost (Print Edition) | 07/07/2010 | Hollywood actors Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman backed out of attending this year’s annual Jerusalem Film Festival, which is set to kick off this coming Thursday, following the international outcry over Israel’s attack on a Turkish-led flotilla that attempted to break the Gaza blockade on May 31, The Jerusalem Post learned Monday. According (...) Pariahs Can’t Be Choosers Bernard Porter | LRB Vol. 32 No. 12 · 24 June 2010 | The Unspoken Alliance : Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky Pantheon, 324 pp, $27.95, May 2010, ISBN 978 0 375 42546 2 This book attracted a lot of attention when it first appeared in the US in May because it apparently showed Israel offering to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa. (...) L’aide de l’Union européenne à l’armée israélienne By David Cronin | BRUSSELS, Jun 18, 2010 (IPS)| Un important fournisseur israélien des avions de guerre qui servent à tuer et à mutiler les civils dans la bande de Gaza s’est mis sur les rangs pour obtenir deux nouvelles subventions de recherche scientifique de l’Union européenne. Les agressions d’Israël contre la bande de Gaza fin 2008, début 2009, ont donné à son armée de l’air une occasion de (...) Education minister vows to punish Israeli professors who back academic boycott By Or Kashti | Ha’aretz | 21/06/2010 | A few days after saying he intends to take action against Israeli professors who call for an academic boycott of Israel, Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar is scheduled to appear on Monday before the Knesset Education Committee to discuss the limits of freedom of expression in schools. Sa’ar refused to provide Haaretz with details of what action he plans to (...) How I was summoned to the Knesset by Ram Cohen | Ynet Hebrew | June 18 2010 | Translation Adam Keller On Monday, June 21, I am to appear before the Knesset Education Committee and the Minister of Education, Mr. Gideon Saar, following my unequivocal words to my students, condemning the 43 year-old occupation and rule over the life of the Palestinian people. A school principal should have a clear and unequivocal moral (...) Stéphane Hessel : Flottille de Gaza : les citoyens du monde doivent réagir là où les gouvernements ont échoué Par Stéphane Hessel, survivant de l’Holocauste, militant des droits de l’Homme, diplomate 15 juin 2010, traduit de The Huffington Post L’attaque illégale et immorale d’Israël contre le convoi d’aide humanitaire de la Flottille de la Liberté, qui a fait au moins neuf morts et des dizaines de blessés, a, à juste titre, stupéfié le monde. Le convoi entièrement civil de 6 bateaux transportait plus de 10 (...) Irish Sunday Tribune : A boycott of Israeli goods is now necessary Irish Sunday Tribune | 6 June 2010 | They were not, as Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barack ludicrously tried to claim, "an armada of hate and violence". Nor was the Mavi Marmara "a boat of hate", as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Turkish ship, trying to justify his commandos gunning down nine civilians on board as they stormed the boat in international waters. But (...) Carte Blanche : La Belgique, complice de crimes de guerre ? A la suite de l’attaque meurtrière israélienne sur la flottille humanitaire Free Gaza, une "carte blanche" (texte ci-dessous) a été rédigée par des professeurs d’Universités et divers acteurs de la société civile. La publication de ce texte a été refusée par les deux quotidiens belges francophones de référence, Le Soir et La Libre Belgique ainsi que par le quotidien français Le Monde. L’argument avancé par (...) EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE STUDENTS VOTE TO DIVEST FROM ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE TESC Divest | 2 Juin 2010 | On June 2, 2010, students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, made history by passing two resolutions supporting human rights, upholding international law, and promoting a just peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict. 1. The first resolution calls for The Evergreen State College Foundation to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s illegal (...) Hebrew University Provides Contradictory Information Concerning Decision to Remove Judge Goldstone from its Board of Governors AIC | 2 June 2010 | In response to an enquiry by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) about its reported removal of Judge Richard Goldstone from the Board of Governors, Hebrew University of Jerusalem responded by email that : "The Hebrew University of Jerusalem revises from time to time its membership roles on its Board of Governors. It recently has been decided to remove from the list (...) TRP : Tous les États et la Communauté Internationale doivent d’urgence prendre des mesures contre les violations du droit international commises par Israël Tribunal Russell sur la Palestine | 1 juin 2010 | L’assaut contre « la flottille de la liberté » par les commandos israéliens commis le 31 mai 2010, au large des côtes de la bande de Gaza viole plusieurs règles élémentaires de droit international : Le principe de la liberté de navigation en haute mer (Convention sur le droit de la mer, art. 87) car cet assaut a eu lieu à 40 miles des côtes de Gaza, (...) UCU Congress votes to sever relations with Israeli Histadrut Boycott process will be initiated for college in West Bank settlement BRICUP | PRESS RELEASE 31st May 2010 | 31 May 2010 | The University and College Union, representing approximately 120,000 teaching and related staff in colleges and universities in the UK, has passed new policies supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The debate took place on Sunday 30th May at the union’s Congress in Manchester. Motion 30, proposed by the (...) "I like the idea of a boycott because it’s so all-American" By Michael Harris | AURDIP | 30/05/2010 | Download the article as a pdf file The growing campaign for an economic boycott of the state of Arizona, after its adoption of a law authorizing police officers to stop suspected illegal immigrants and demand proof of citizenship, reminds me how differently the tactic is seen in France and in the United States. Boycotts in my country are not only (...) Brand Israel. What Justice Goldstone Learned the Hard Way By NEVE GORDON | Counterpunch | May 21 - 23, 2010 | Richard Goldstone has learned a lesson or two in the past year. Ever since Goldstone, a self-proclaimed Jewish Zionist South African judge, authored a UN report charging Israel (and Hamas) with war crimes, he has been subjected to a well-orchestrated delegitimization campaign. Two weeks ago, new “revealing information” was disseminated to the (...) Boycotting the boycotters By Gideon Levy | Haaretz | 16.05.10 | While the international boycott against apartheid South Africa is credited with leading to the regime’s downfall, here it is considered irrelevant and unworthy of comparison. Most people here are appalled at the notion that anybody beyond Israel’s borders would think to boycott their country, products or universities. Boycotts, after all, are viewed in (...) Noam Chomsky denied entry into Israel and West Bank By Amira Hass | Haaretz | 16/05/2010 | Professor Noam Chomsky, an American linguist and left-wing activist, was denied entry into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday. No reason was initially given for the decision, but the Interior Ministry later said immigration officials at the Allenby Bridge border crossing from Jordan had misunderstood Chomsky’s intentions thinking initially he was also (...) Chomsky and other scientists condemn Boston museum’s Israeli celebration Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss | May 4, 2010 | What follows is an open letter to the Boston Museum of Science by leading scholars objecting to the museum’s sponsorship of an Israeli propaganda effort : We, the undersigned group of scientists concerned with human dignity and equality, condemn the Museum of Science’s decision to co-sponsor and host “Israeli Innovation Weekend” (IIW) on May 2. IIW is (...) Appel à la participation et au soutien du Forum mondial éducation en palestine Le Forum mondial de l’Education (FME) se tiendra en Palestine du 28 au 31 octobre, dans le cadre de la programmation globale du Forum Social Mondial pour l’année 2010. Le Forum sera polycentrique, avec des activités organisées à Haifa, Ramallah, Jérusalem, Gaza, mais aussi au Liban par un comité palestinien. Le Conseil International du Forum Social Mondial a apporté son soutien à la tenue de ce (...) Boycott, Désinvestissement, Sanctions. BDS contre l’apartheid et l’occupation de la Palestine par Omar Barghouti (Auteur) 192 pages La Fabrique éditions ISBN978-2-3587-2007-6 Description du livre Contre Charles Boycott, propriétaire terrien irlandais, ses fermiers organisèrent en 1879 un blocus qui l’obligea à capituler sur les loyers et les conditions de travail. Le boycott est l’arme des pauvres contre les puissants, des opprimés contre la domination. Le mouvement BDS (boycott, (...) Lettre de soutien de militants israéliens à la campagne BDS-FRANCE Nous sommes des citoyens israéliens. Nous voudrions exprimer notre soutien à nos amis en France qui défendent l’appel palestinien au Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS) internationales à l’encontre d’Israël. Nous aimerions insister sur le fait que prendre part à une activité de cette sorte n’est d’aucune manière discriminatoire, antisémite ou raciste, mais qu’il s’agit bien au contraire d’une (...) Votez le désinvestissement : vous ne serez pas seuls English version Note de l’éditeur : le texte qui suit est celui du discours du Professeur Judith Butler, prononcé le mardi 13 avril devant les étudiants de l’université de Berkeley, Californie. Le 18 mars, le conseil des étudiants de Berkeley avait voté à 16 contre 4 en faveur du désinvestissement des fonds de leur université dans les entreprises General Electric et United Technologies car celles-ci (...) You Will Not Be Alone By Judith Butler | April 13, 2010 | The Nation | Version française Editor’s Note : What follows is the text of a speech Professor Butler will give on Wednesday, April 13, to the students of the University of California, Berkeley. On March 18, Berkeley’s Student Senate voted 16-to-4 to divest from General Electric and United Technologies because of their role in harming civilians as part of (...) Israël sait que l’apartheid n’a aucun avenir Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, lundi 12 avril 2010 | English version En 2007, Ehud Olmert, alors premier ministre, a déclaré : "Si un jour la solution des deux États s’effondre et que nous sommes confrontés à une lutte de style sud-africain pour l’égalité des droits de vote (s’étendant aux Palestiniens des territoires), ce sera instantanément la fin de l’État d’Israël ». Plus récemment,le ministre de la (...) Open Letter to German Left Party (Die Linke) 01 April 2010 | Dear Friends, This letter is being sent to you by citizens of the state of Israel who are active in various Left groups and on a variety of topics throughout Israel and Palestine, including human rights, ecology, peace, support for refugees, social justice, workers’ rights, feminism and queer struggles. We are struggling within our country and our society for a real social (...) Communiqué de GUPS-France Union Générale des Étudiants de Palestine (GUPS France) | 02 Avril 2010 | La GUPS condamne fermement la signature des accords de coopération entre les universités françaises de Paris-VII et de Paris- XIII, et les universités israélienne de Ben-Gourion et palestinienne d’Al-Qods. (1) Le 19 Mars 2010, un accord de coopération pédagogique et de recherche a été signé entre les universités françaises de (...) Singling out Israel is the right thing to do By Yaman Salahi | The Berkeley Daily Planet | April 08, 2010 | Two weeks ago, UC Berkeley’s student senate made a historic 16-4 decision to divest from General Electric and United Technologies, two American companies that profit from the Israeli occupation. A week later, the student body president vetoed the bill, citing its “focus on a specific country,” Israel. His veto echoed identical (...) Israel knows apartheid has no future Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, The Electronic Intifada, 8 April 2010 | After decades of military rule over Palestinians and theft of our land, Israeli leaders are increasingly seeing the writing on the wall. They are at least acknowledging reality, if not yet grappling with the consequences. In 2007, Ehud Olmert, then prime minister, declared : "If the day comes when the two-state solution (...) "’Boycott, désinvestissement, sanctions’, une campagne pour la justice", par Ivar Ekeland, Annick Coupé, Nahla Chahal et Michèle Sibony LEMONDE.FR | 31.03.10 | Pour la Campagne Boycott désinvestissement sanctions (BDS) à l’égard d’Israël, l’heure est semble-t-il en France à la criminalisation et aux attaques diffamatoires. La tribune publiée par Me Michaël Ghnassia sur Le Monde.fr du 24 mars n’en est qu’un exemple. La rhétorique déployée par ce dernier renvoie un geste citoyen pour obtenir l’application du droit international, le boycott, (...) Jeff Halper : The Global Pacification Industry Interview with Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of Obstacles to Peace : A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and An Israeli In Palestine : Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com... The right to study and academic freedom in Palestine Open letter to Italian academics on cultural and university discrimination against the Palestinian people Pisa, 5th of March 2010 Dear colleagues, We are a group of Italian university professors particularly concerned about the situation faced by the Palestinian people in universities and schools, both in the occupied territories (Gaza and the West Bank) and within the state of Israel, (...) Should the EU subsidise Israeli security ? By Ben Hayes | EuropeanVoice.com | 18.03.2010 | The inclusion of Israel in the European Security Research Programme undermines the EU’s commitment to even-handedness in the Middle East. Since the European Community began funding research in 1984, both the amount of funding available and the range of topics on offer have steadily increased (the latest framework programme, FP7, has a (...) UC Berkeley student senate votes in favor of divestment Dina Omar, The Electronic Intifada, 19 March 2010 | Early yesterday morning, the University of California Berkeley Student Senate (ASUC) passed a bill to divest from companies that provide military support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Debate began the night before at 9:00pm and ended and six hours later when the vote was held at 3:00am. The session was attended by more than 150 (...) A Joint Letter to the International Society of Iranian Studies on "Ariel University of Samaria, Israel" March 10, 2010 | Dear Professor Sandler Members of the Executive Committee International Society for Iranian Studies We write to register our deep concern that during the 2010 Iranian Studies Biennial Conference in Santa Monica, California, the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) intends to host a faculty member from “Ariel University of Samaria, Israel.” We understand that due (...) |
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