A large group of Israelis marched against the presence of Africans and Filipinos in Israel, the ‘thieves and rapists.’
More evidence of Israel flying off the handle… Knesset, Apartheid’s Legislative Body, lifted Member Hanin Zuabi’s parliamentary immunity after she sailed on the humanitarian aid ship Mavi Marmara towards Gaza. Just another step in the witch hunt towards her and other Palestinian-Israeli leaders that have been challenging the Apartheid rule.
Actors Meg Ryan and Dustin Huffman canceled their participation in one of Apartheid’s major film festivals. BDS is here people… people are boycotting because they are concluding it’s the right thing to do on their own, not when they are approached by activists.
Another cultural bombing rocks Israel.. British Rock band “Archive” remove Israel from their concert tour, rather unmistakably.
Three western musical acts, The Pixies, The Klaxons, and Gorillaz, have canceled their appearances in Israel in light of Israel’s massacre and attack on the Freedom Flotilla last week. The cancellation prompted Israelis to decry the isolation as “cultural terrorism.”
BDS is a non-violent strategy that has teeth and can be painful, it is also designed to make Israel feel pain through isolation, reflect, and change. If it is terrorizing Israelis, then call me a cultural terrorist, because I’ll do every thing I can to make sure Israel is culturally isolated, for that we may be closer to a just and lasting solution.
During two appearances on CNN yesterday and today, on-again off-again American and currently Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, made the claim that the commandos who helicopter-dropped and stormed the humanitarian aid ships going to Gaza were armed with paintball guns.
You may be laughing now, and I agree, it is almost funny, except the Stepford wives and other dumb fucks posing as journalists at CNN eat that shit up and take it at face value. As a matter of fact they did let the claim pass unchallenged and as a matter of fact.
Two Italian grocery chains, Coop Italia and Nordiconad, announced they will discontinue carrying and distributing all Israeli agricultural products beginning next week. The decision came in response to one of Italy’s strong BDS campaigns, Stop Carmel-Agrexco.
Desmond Tutu writes a letter to UC Berkeley’s student government, endorsing and encouraging their decision to divest from the Israeli occupation.
The IAW debate on Al-Jazeera pointed to accusation of an anti-Semitic plot as a conspiracy theory hurled at the ethnically, religiously, and generationally diverse group of broke solidarity activists who came together to organize the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel) movement with the goal of achieving equal rights for the Palestinians people. According to [...]
From the ISM: The “University Center of Ariel in Samaria” (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in [...]