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Kansas Court Temporarily Blocks Law Punishing Those Who Boycott Israel or the Settlements
ACLU filed suit on behalf of math teacher who lost contract for boycotting products made in Israeli settlements
NDP to debate BDS motion at its National Convention in Ottawa
A resolution that calls on Israel to “end its occupation” of Palestinian land and on Canada to employ boycott, divestment and sanctions strategies against the Jewish state, will be debated….
The Alarming Reason Israeli and Palestinian Activists Are Growing Closer
Israeli freedom of speech is being called into question, and that’s pretty ironic
In landslide vote, Denmark excludes settlements from agreements with Israel
Denmark strengthens government guidelines against investing in projects over the Green Line, thereby adopting a UN resolution defining West Bank settlements as a violation of international law
Settlement university law set to stoke Israel boycotts
New legislation would bring higher education institutions in the West Bank under Israeli law
Is academia the last bastion of progressive thought in Israel?
Israeli universities have long been viewed as a bulwark against extremism. A new database, compiled by a group of Israeli dissident academics, reveals how the academy works in concert with the state.
South Africa tells UN: Israel is only apartheid state in the world today
The South African government has described Israel as the only apartheid state in the world, in remarks made at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in….
Speech by Ivar Ekeland at the International Trade Union Forum for Support and Solidarity with Palestine organized by the UGTT in Tunis on January 20, 2018
Following the decision of US President Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) organized an International Trade Union Forum of Support and Solidarity with Palestine in Tunis on January 20th. 2018, which corresponds to the seventy second anniversary of its creation. More than 50 unions around the world and many civil society organizations including AURDIP participated in this forum.
Many participants to the Forum called for BDS, including Hael Al Fahoum, the Palestinian ambassador to Tunisia, Azzam al Ahmad, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Shaher Saad, president of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, and Ivar Ekeland, treasurer and former president of the AURDIP.
Below is the speech of Ivar Ekeland.
Norman Finkelstein’s ‘Gaza’ is an exhaustive act of witness
GAZA
An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
Norman Finkelstein
440 pp. University of California Press. $34.95.