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Is being Arab Israel's criteria for rape?
An Arab living in Israel has been found guilty of 'deceit rape' and sentenced to 18 months in prison for having consensual sex with an Israeli woman, because she apparently believed he was Jewish. [2010-07-21]Boycott - Other News

Palestine Solidarity Settlement created in Brighton Supermarket
Activists in Brighton set up a 'Palestine Solidarity Settlement' in Waitrose supermarket to protest against the demolition of 23 Palestinian homes in Al Farisiya by the Israeli Army the day before on 19th July. [2010-07-20]Boycott - Economic - Europe

Palestine protesters set to demonstrate at Leeds Johnny Rotten gig
Former Sex Pistols frontman, singer John Lydon faces protest from Palestine supporters over planned Tel Aviv gig. Protests planned at all his UK venues in July: Bristol, Oxford, Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow. [2010-07-20]Boycott - Cultural

Israeli female soldier confesses to her involvement in killing Palestinian child
An Israeli female soldier admitted in a TV show entitled "soldiers behind the scenes" that she helped once her comrades to kill a Palestinian child in cold blood, but she did not disclose when and where the crime took place. [2010-07-19]Boycott - Other News

Swansea City Council Ban Future Contracts with Veolia
"Veolia, is.. to build a light railway system linking Israel to illegal settl1ements.. in contravention of international law. This Council therefore calls on the Leader & Chief Executive not to sign or allow to be signed any new contracts or renewal of any existing contracts with Veolia" [2010-07-12]Boycott - Other News

India chapter formed to campaign against Israel
The India chapter of the international movement to campaign for academic and cultural boycott of Israel has been formed by a group of intellectuals [2010-07-12]Boycott - Academic

Hezbollah chief's speeches sway Israeli opinion more than any Arab leader
Israeli intelligence says that Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah was the first Arab leader in 30 years who, through his speeches, swayed the Israeli public - throughout the war he systematically undermined Israelis' confidence in their political and military leadership. [2010-07-12]Lebanon

Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them
A protest petition has been signed by 500 Israeli academics, including two former education ministers, following a proposed Knesset bill which would outlaw boycotts and penalise their supporters - making them pay damages to the companies affected. [2010-07-11]Boycott - Academic

BDS campaign wants Israel to abide by international law
Prominent Israeli academic explains that the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions strategy arises from realisation that the occupation will not end unless Israelis understand it has a price [2010-07-11]Boycott - Other News

Jordanian workers urged not to handle Israeli goods
The national anti-normalisation committee on Saturday called on labourers across the Kingdom to reject companies that handle Israeli goods: "Workers should stop moving Israeli goods by land, sea and air and refuse to deal with ships that travel to Israel" [2010-07-11]Boycott - Economic - World

Activists 'decorate' Israel Ministry of Tourism billboards
After the Advertising Standards Authority and Transport for London ignored complaints against the appearance of Israeli tourism adverts on the tube the week after the flotilla massacre, activists were forced to take matters into their own hands.. [2010-07-09]Boycott - Tourism

IDF Military contractor awarded record $800 million deal with BT
IDF Military contractor Electronics Corporation of Israel (ECI) Telecom, with its 45 year history with the IDF, has been awarded a $800 million contract by British Telecom, the largest in ECI's history. [2010-07-09]Boycott - Israel Supporters

Belgian Trade union Federation Adopts Boycott
The Belgian Trade Union Congress (FGTB) calls for a stop to all arms trade with Israel, a stop to imports of settlement products, and a stop to promoting economic cooperation with Israel. [2010-07-08]Boycott - Arms

Church of England reviews stake in Israeli rail
The Church of England is reviewing its investment in Veolia, a company building Jerusalem's light railway amid concern that the tramline "will help to cement Israel's hold on occupied east Jerusalem". [2010-07-08]Boycott - Divestment

Dustin Hoffman and Meg Ryan boycott Israeli film festival followiing flotilla massacre
"Meg Ryan was supposed to come here.. A day after the flotilla incident we got an email saying she was not going to attend. We were very close to reaching agreement with Hoffman, then the flotilla happened and correspondence was ended." [2010-07-07]Boycott - Cultural

Still Boycott Marks and Spencer?
Should we still be boycotting M&S now that they have announced that they no longer sell settlement produce? [2010-07-06]Boycott - Economic - World

Woodcraft Folk youth movement joins Israel Boycott
The Woodcraft Folk movement. with its 500 youth groups in the UK, has voted at its annual gathering for a 'complete boycott' of Israel until the blockade of Gaza is lifted. [2010-07-05]Boycott - Academic

IKEA furnishing the occupation
Home furnishings retail giant IKEA in Israel discriminately ships to Israel's illegal settlements but not Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank. [2010-07-05]Boycott - Israel Supporters

India's Cochin Port Union Boycotts Israeli Ships and Cargo
Indian trade unions in Cochin Port have united to boycott Israeli ships and cargo arriving at Cochin Port in protest against the siege of Gaza. They held a joint protest rally outside the Israeli shipping line Zim Integrated Shipping Services. [2010-07-04]Boycott - Economic - World

Spanish stores boycott Israeli game
Spains toy store chain Abacus, with 34 branches, has removed Israels #1 export game Rummikub from its shelves in protest against the flotilla massacre. [2010-07-01]Boycott - Economic - World

Kimberly-Clark profiting from the occupation
Did you know that Kimberly-Clark has products manufactured in two factories located in Israeli settlements on the West Bank? Did you know that Kimberly-Clark Turkey is wholly owned by an Israeli company? [2010-07-01]Boycott - Israel Supporters

Ahmadinejad orders ban on Israeli goods
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the implementation of a bill demanding major efforts to enforce a total boycott on goods with Israeli origin. [2010-06-30]Boycott - Economic - World

Methodist Church to boycott goods from illegal Israeli settlements
The Methodist Church has today voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same. [2010-06-30]Boycott - Economic - World

Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite
Settlement factories sell 30% of their output to the Palestinian market, and the boycott is already having an impact on them. Many have had to reduce production, 17 have been forced to close, whilst others are considering moving back into Israel. [2010-06-29]Boycott - Economic - World

Dismantling the Israeli state is key
In failing to address the problem of Israel and its hegemonic designs, the two-state solution will never be a path to lasting peace, writes Ghada Karmi [2010-06-24]Boycott - Other News

Turkish Dock Workers Union Joins Boycott against Israel
"Our union Liman-Is (Turkish Dock Workers Union), has decided to boycott the ships from Israel which has become a machine of death and torture.. no member of our union will give service to Israel in any docks that we are organized at." [2010-06-24]Boycott - Economic - World

Swedish dockworkers boycott Israeli ships
In protest of the flotilla massacre, Swedish Port Workers Union, with its 1,500 members, began a weeklong boycott of Israeli ships and cargo at all Sweden's ports which handle more than 95% of the country's foreign trade. [2010-06-23]Boycott - Economic - World

Historic Victory at Oakland Port – Israeli Ship Blocked from Unloading
In a historic action over 800 activists blocked the gates of the Oakland docks in the early morning hours, prompting longshore workers to refuse to cross the picketlines where they were scheduled to unload an Israeli ship. [2010-06-21]Boycott - Economic - World

Isolate apartheid Israel
The problem for Israel and its Western allies is that the siege on Gaza is not achieving its aim — to isolate Hamas and to cause so much suffering that the Gazans turn on their government. Instead, the sheer injustice of the siege is giving rise to anger against Israel. This anger puts pressure on Western governments.. [2010-06-20]Boycott - Other News

Israeli diplomat's bid to 're-brand' Israel
"Brazil's is about fun, Paris is about romance, so Israel is about what? We researched worldwide, and it came up almost universally that Israel's image is identified with conflict. Even people who support Israeli policies are not attracted to what the conflict represents." [2010-06-17]Boycott - Tourism

Elton John aside, Israelis feel growing isolation
Elton John's Tel Aviv concert was notable precisely because Israel seems to be losing the battle against the country's isolation worldwide, many in Israel, including in the country's leadership, have concluded that the war over world opinion is lost. [2010-06-17]Boycott - Cultural

Irish Singer Concert In Israel Canceled
Legendary songwriter, performer Tommy Sands scheduled performance in Israel has been cancelled because he refused to be censored during his performance. He was asked not perform the anthem of the aid ship MV Rachel Corrie, "Peace on the Shores of Gaza". [2010-06-17]Boycott - Cultural

South African trade unions call for boycott of Israeli apartheid
Israel and its apologists bristle when Israel is called an apartheid state. Most loudly shouting, “Israeli apartheid,” however, are those who know the best — the workers of South Africa, who suffered the most under South African apartheid. [2010-06-16]Boycott - Economic - World

Volvo equipment: effective tool in the Israeli occupation of Palestine
Volvo continues to ignore the use of its equipment in Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes and the construction of the wall, and is providing armoured buses to transport Israeli settlers and soldiers in violation of the Geneva Convention [2010-06-16]Boycott - Israel Supporters

Devendra Banhart cancels Tel Aviv show
California-based folk artist Devendra Banhart canceled two shows in Tel Aviv just hours before his scheduled arrival: "we were coming to share a human and not a political message but it seems that we are being used to support views that are not our own" [2010-06-15]Boycott - Cultural

The fight against Israeli apartheid
BDS is about building an international movement to isolate Israel economically, culturally and academically. It is about persuading artists, writers, and performers not to work in Israel. It is about identifying Israeli products and pressing importers and outlets not to stock them.. [2010-06-15]Boycott - Academic

French theatres cancels Israeli film in protest of flotilla raid
French cinema chain Utopia, with around 40 cinemas, has cancelled all screening of an Israeli film and replaced it with a film on Rachel Corrie to protest against Israeli attack on aid flotilla. [2010-06-12]Boycott - Cultural

Dylan sheet music site boycotts Israeli web users
One of the largest sites dedicated to Bob Dylan songs, dylanchords.com decides to impose a cultural boycott of the state of Israel, over its 'absurd inhumanity' by blocking Israeli users from site. [2010-06-12]Boycott - Cultural

British firm cuts ties with Israeli company
British company RedRat joins boycott of Israel due to Israel's Gaza policy, and cuts ties with long-standing Israeli client: "Continuing business as usual is tantamount to support" [2010-06-11]Boycott - Economic - World

'Israel Map' Withdrawn from London Tube
Floods of complaints have forced the Israeli government to withdraw tourism adverts from London Underground that "wipe Palestine off the map" [2009-05-23]Boycott - Tourism

Advertising Standards Authority rules Israel tourism advert 'misleading'
ASA: "The ad implied that the part of East Jerusalem featured in the image was part of the state of Israel, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead." [2010-04-14]Boycott - Tourism

Time to kick Israel out of European football
"It is a question of boycotting racism, not sport, precisely in order to restore to sport all the magnanimity of its first purpose." - Amadou Mahtar-M'Bow, Director -General of UNESCO to the International Conference on Sports Boycott Against South Africa in 1985 [2010-06-04]Boycott - Sports

UK's largest union calls for Israel boycott
Describing Israel as a “rogue state,” a “terror state way beyond apartheid” and a “war state” with “no appetite for peace or coexistence,” Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, voted last Thursday for a complete boycott of Israeli goods and services at its annual conference in Manchester. [2010-06-08]Boycott - Economic - Europe

The Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has become a key battleground in the grassroots struggle over the future of Israel/Palestine. When did the BDS movement begin, why is it growing and what does it want? [2010-06-09]Boycott - Other News

Sephora taken to court over products from Israeli brand Ahava
LVMH-owned Sephora has been taken to court by the Palestinian rights organisation CAPJPO-EuroPalestine over the sale of cosmetics brand Ahava, which is produced in territories in the West Bank illegally occupied by Israel [2010-05-28]Boycott - Economic - World

Two Italian grocery chains to boycott Israeli produce
Coop Italia and Nordiconad have announced that they will stop selling all Israeli products as they can not differentiate whether they came from West Bank settlements or inside the Green Line. [2010-05-23]Boycott - Economic - Europe

Irish megastore bans Israeli potatoes
Lidl, a leading food retailer that operates in Ireland, has stopped selling Israeli potatoes, but denies its boycotting Israel. [2010-06-09]Boycott - Economic - Europe

Small step towards a boycott of Israel
Renowned Scottish writer Iain Banks urges boycott of Israel: 'I've told my agent to turn down any further book translation deals with Israeli publishers.. I would urge all writers, artists.. to have nothing more to do with this outlaw state' [2010-06-03]Boycott - Cultural

Sweden, Norway Act Against Israel
Norway's military says it has cancelled a special operations seminar because the Defense Ministry objected to the inclusion of an Israeli army officer in the program. [2010-06-05]Boycott - Arms

On the Cultural Boycott
Whist many performers like Elvis Costello, The Pixies, Gorillaz, and Klaxons have out of conscience heeded the Palestinian call for cultural boycott of Israel, writers like Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh are deaf to it.. [2010-06-01]Boycott - Cultural

University and College Union passes BDS resolutions
The University and College Union, representing approximately 120,000 teaching and related staff in colleges and universities in the UK, has passed new policies supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. [2010-05-31]Boycott - Academic

Boycott - Economic - Europe 40% of Norwegians - Ban Israeli products Boycott - Economic - World The Swedish dockers’ union decides on a blockade against Israeli ships and goods
Boycott - Sports After flotilla raid, Sweden wants out of soccer match with Israel Boycott - Other News Nicaragua suspends diplomatic ties with Israel
Boycott - Economic - World Palestinian Trade Union Movement Calls on International Dockworkers Unions to Block Loading/Offloading Israeli Ships Boycott - Other News Israel plans to send bill to Palestinians over boycotts
Boycott - Other News Recalling the anti-apartheid spirit Boycott - Cultural Lebanese call for Placebo gig boycott over Israel
Boycott - Cultural Pixies, Klaxons, Gorillaz Join Growing Boycott of Israel Boycott - Cultural Madrid bans Israelis from gay pride march over Gaza flotilla raid
Boycott - Other News Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre London Demos - Photo report Boycott - Economic - World Iran calls for ban on Israeli products
Boycott - Arms Ride for Palestine - Stop Arming Israel Boycott - Zionist Lobby US journalist fired over Israel remarks
Boycott - Other News Gaza Flotilla: National Demo Sat 5 June Boycott - Other News Eyewitness to Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre
Boycott - Other News Israeli commandos attack Gaza aid flotilla killing at least 19 - Emergency demo called Boycott - Economic - World Boycott Blues
Boycott - Academic Banned by Israel, Chomsky gives W.Bank lecture by video
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