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IMEMC News & Agencies | June 13, 2018 Hewlett Packard (HP) faces over $120 million in potential losses since India’s largest student federation passed a resolution to support the BDS movement and to boycott Hewlett Packard companies over their well-documented complicity in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinian human rights. Apoorva Gautam, the India-based South Asia coordinator for the Palestinian […]

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Image: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and California Gov. Jerry Brown (2nd L) sign a pact to strengthen economic and research ties between California and Israel at the Computer History Museum on March 5, 2014 in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
 
 

Why do churches let themselves become ensnared in inter-faith ‘friendships’ with extremists? How does it help the quest for peace and harmony?

 
by Stuart Littlewood
 
Pro-Palestinian campaigners are cock-a-hoop over the Presbyterian Church USA’s vote to divest from Caterpillar Inc, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions. Hailed as amazing, brave and miraculous in some quarters, it was actually a very close-run thing: 310 to 303 against, with no abstentions.

Pro-Palestinian campaigners are cock-a-hoop over the Presbyterian Church USA’s vote to divest from Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions. Hailed as amazing, brave and miraculous in some quarters, it was actually a very close-run thing: 310 to 303 against, with no abstentions.

Image above: Joshua Lott for The New York Times
 

 The American Studies Association said the reason behind its decision was that the Israeli institutions were “a party” to policies “that violate human rights” as Israel’s “violation of international law and UN resolutions” continues and the “impact of the Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students” is well-documented.

DePaul students don’t want their tuition dollars invested in weapons manufacturers who supply the Israeli government, army and prison services

DePaul students don’t want their tuition dollars invested in weapons manufacturers who supply the Israeli government, army and prison services

Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network | January 26, 2014

Who Profits released the following report on the involvement of Israeli and multinational corporations in the Israeli prison system: