Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)

Image: Jeremy Corbyn -courtesy The Independent

 

Israel, the world’s largest exporter of aerial drones, killed at least 164 children in drone attacks during its assault on Gaza.5 In a number of incidents, evidence suggests that Israeli forces directly targeted children

Abandoned for 66 years by the international community to Israeli war crimes, Palestine needs friends.  Palestine, don’t despair. You are not alone, you have friends around the world: people, strangers, you may never meet, but who, like you have families, jobs, and who share the Palestinian dream of freedom and justice to which they are quietly and actively dedicated.

 

Image above: Students celebrate victory of DePaul divestment resolution. DEPAUL DIVEST

 

“DePaul students don’t want their tuition dollars invested in weapons manufacturers who supply the Israeli government, army and prison services”  The Palestinians have been robbed of everything, including their freedom. Why should they be asked to make more “concessions” to the thief?  That is why Boycotting Israel is so important and necessary

 The EU policy of maintaining close relations with Israel as a supposed means of persuading it to end its violations of human rights and international law, and negotiate in good faith, has clearly failed.

 
 

by Stuart Littlewood

In the run-up to the EU elections the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) emailed supporters urging them to use a specially worded form for MEP candidates to fill in. It included these two questions…
 

Since 1967, the Israeli Apartheid  government has been the DE-FACTO SOVEREIGN POWER in control of the whole of historic Palestine, incluiding Gaza, The west Bank and Israel.
Israeli authorities control the population registry and ID system , restricting whre Palestinians can live, their access to services and their participation in the political system.

Gaza Siege Intensifies, More Ethnic Cleansing Looms, but Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions Campaign Gathers Momentum

Dr A.Clare Brandabur
Fatih University, Istanbul

 ‘Sir Nigel’ rides forth….
Is UKIP leader Nigel Farage the ‘white knight’ of British politics? or just another mercenary of the pro-Israel Lobby?

The new activism of a young generation in the US has largely come out of the multiplicity and consistency of a new media narrative confidently mushrooming from a new generation of educated Palestinians.