BDS News

Carleton Students Discover University's Links to Military Occupation: Launch Divestment Campaign
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Carleton students have released a report detailing how the Carleton University Pension Fund invests in companies involved in violations of human rights and of international law.

The report was created by Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA – Carleton), who are launching a campaign to end Carleton's unethical investments and to adopt a socially responsible investment policy.

The Alternative Information Centre (AIC) has released a groundbreaking report on the role of Israeli academic institutions in supporting and maintaining Israeli Apartheid.

Haaretz - Protesters in the New York borough of Queens held a rally last week to call for a boycott of Motorola over the firm's business dealings with the Israel Defense Forces.

At the demonstration, which was organized by the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, protestors waved Palestinian flags and signs saying: "Goodbye Moto, Goodbye Apartheid," and "Boycott Motorola, Free Palestine."

The group also wrote songs and conducted street theater to draw the attention of passersby.

Israeli Radio reported Monday morning that Israeli policemen detained 280 Palestinian workers in 24 hours after claiming that they were illegally staying and working in Israel.

The radio added that most of the detained workers were sent back to the Palestinians territories.

Furthermore, the radio also said that four contractors and eight drivers were also arrested for “hiring and transporting Arab workers into Israel”.

May 4, 2009 - As longtime labor and anti-apartheid activists, we strongly disagree with the decision to honor Stuart Appelbaum at tonight's annual dinner of the Labor Research Association in New York City.

The LRA's dinner program praises Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, for building "relationships with community organizations in an effort to expand the rights of unorganized workers."

CDFN des 20 et 21 janvier 2009 - Pendant plus de trois semaines, Israël a pris la décision de bombarder Gaza et d’engager une attaque terrestre contre une population déjà privée de ses droits fondamentaux. Aujourd’hui Gaza est dévastée et la situation humanitaire y est effroyable. Cette attaque israélienne affichée comme la réponse aux tirs de roquettes sur les populations civiles du sud d’Israël est apparu aux yeux du monde, malgré les tentatives d’interdire à la presse l’accès aux territoires pilonnés, comme très loin d’une simple attitude défensive.

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 1 May 2009 - How do Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation and siege see their world, especially after Israel's massacre of more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, in the occupied Gaza Strip three months ago?

Occupied Ramallah, 3 May 2009 - The impressive growth of the Palestinian civil society campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, particularly after its criminal war of aggression on the occupied Gaza Strip, is testimony to the morality and consistency of ordinary citizens and civil society organizations around the world concerned about restoring Palestinian rights and achieving justice for Palestinians.

By Nadia Hijab - On May 4, protesters will greet Motorola shareholders, already disgruntled by the company's losses, as they arrive for their annual meeting at the Rosemont Theater in Chicago, Illinois. The protest, organized by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, is part of a drive to "Hang Up On Motorola" until it ends sales of communications and other products that support Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land.

Anthony Lerman (guardian.co.uk) - The control Israel exerts on Gaza and the West Bank suggests time is running out for proponents of a two-state solution.

Critics of the one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict see it, at best, as utopian and unachievable, and at worst, as the dismantling of Israel, the denial of the right of Jewish self-determination and the ultimate expression of the new antisemitism.