Harvard Divests From Israel

Harvard Management Company, which manages the university’s endowment, has divested the fund from all investments it had in Israel companies, during the second quarter of this year. The divested stocks include TEVA, a generic drug manufacturer, that has greatly benefited from Israel’s strangulation of several

30 Pages of Famous Jewish Support for Divestment at Berkeley

Jewish Voice for Peace has compiled letters from prominent Jewish and Israeli intellectuals and activists, supporting UC Berkeley’s divestment initiative and encouraging the student government to override President Will Smelko’s unprincipled veto tonight. Student activists supporting the bill have been wearing shirts with their simple slogan: Divest. Make history. Since it is relevant and an [...]

Noam Chomsky endorses Berkeley divestment

Noam Chomsky writes student senators at UC Berkeley, urging them to continue their support for Berkeley’s divestment bill, which had been vetoed by the student body president.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do

Desmond Tutu writes a letter to UC Berkeley’s student government, endorsing and encouraging their decision to divest from the Israeli occupation.

Singling out Israel is the right thing to do

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 claims by Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, that “in a world filled with human rights abuses across Africa, Asia and the Americas, the UC Berkeley students vote to single out Israel for censure is hypocritical.”

Basta: After veto of Berkeley divestment, the movement grows

The following is a communique from Berkeley SJP regarding ASUC President Will Smelko’s decision to veto last week’s successful divestment bill.

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 [...]

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.

Norway Divests!

From Reuters OSLO, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Norway’s $400 billion-plus wealth fund has excluded Israeli company Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA) for supplying surveillance equipment for the separation barrier in the West Bank, the government said on Thursday. “We do not wish to fund companies that so directly contribute to violations of international humanitarian law,” Finance Minister [...]

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?