Snubbed

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.

Wave Of Cultural Terrorism Rocks Israel

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.

Italian Grocers Boycott Israeli Products

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.

Palestinian Boycott Leader Challenges SF Jewish Federation

Open Letter to Rabbi Doug Kahn by Omar Barghouti, a leader of the international movement to boycott Israel

BDS: Spain Boycotts Israeli Settlement University

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 [...]

Two New BDS Victories

Can we have a some volunteers to establish and maintain a BDS victory list/time line? Email me… 1) TIAA-CREF, one of the US’s largest pension funds administering the pension plans for nearly 3.6 million educators at a value of $400 billion, just divested from Africa-Israel, the blood-diamond settlement funding company owned by Lev Leviev after [...]

More Boycott Fun In Toronto

Next Thursday begins the 34th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).  This year, the festival is starting it’s new City to City program that features films from a highlighted city.  The organizers decided to start off this program by focusing on Tel Aviv.  As a result, one Canadian filmmaker won’t be showing his [...]

Charlotte Gets Dumped Again, Again

It’s not enough that Sex and the City airhead, Kristine Davis, stuck it out with Ahava, chosing sides with the apartheidsepresentative over her work with human rights groups such Oxfam.

Now it appears that Charlotte, and her tainted image, are not good enough for the cosmetics maker. Ahava just dumped Davis, as if her tainted image is hurting Ahava, not because of it.

This one goes down as another success for BDS, and a first BDS for success for CodePink’s boycott Israel campaign.

Oops! LA Times Blog Published My Comment

If I knew they would publish it I would have included a link to the ‘fest. Next time.

So Saturday was the first official day of a campaign to boycott Israeli products at Trader Joe’s stores. That off course does not constitute news for the LA Times.

Yet some body on their staff posts on how the boycott fizzled. Any body following the logic here? Shouldn’t there be a campaign first to fizzle, and if there was a campaign whose fizzling makes news, shouldn’t they have reported on it when it peaked?

Israeli Products Deshelved At Trader Joe’s

A campaign to de-shelve Israeli products at Trader Joe’s that kicked off in Pittsburgh last month has gone national and is beginning to ruffle feathers.

Activists have designated June 20th, World Refugee Day, as national day to deshelve Israeli products. This Saturday’s actions will focus on Trader Joe’s stores around the country. Look for boycott action at your local Trader Joe’s, or organize action your self.