Category: Boycott & Divestment

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) LAURIE GOODSTEIN | The New York Times, Page One of Print Edition | 6 August 2005 The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced Friday that it would press four American corporations to stop providing military equipment and technology to Israel for use in the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and that if the companies did not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Received from UN Information Officer | Relief Web | 13 July 2005 Plan is ‘Navigator’ for Civil Society Actors Committed to Middle East Peace; It Pinpoints Areas for Urgent Action by International Community, Says Chairman GA/PAL/989 (Received from a UN Information Officer.) PARIS, 13 July — Civil society organizations committed to ending the Israeli

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IMEMC Staff | International Middle East Media Center | 9 July 2005 The General Assembly of the United Church of Christ, (UCC) decided in it 25 convention to selectively divest from companies involved with Israel’s occupation of the west bank and Gaza, the building of the West Bank wall and the Israeli settlements within

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Badil Centre | 9 July 2005 One year after the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which found Israel’s Wall built on occupied Palestinian territory to be illegal, Israel continues its construction of the colonial Wall with total disregard to the Court’s decision. Thirty eight years into Israel’s occupation of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fredrick Nzwili | Episcopal News Service | 5 July 2005 [Ecumenical News International] Nairobi — The Anglican Church of Kenya has backed a call from a top committee of the 75 million-member Anglican Communion urging churches to divest from companies whose activities contribute to the occupation of Palestinian land or to violence against innocent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop The Wall Organization | 3 July 2005 Palestinian solidarity activists took to the street of Brighton on Saturday 25th of June with a lively procession calling for a boycott of Caterpillar. Campaigners from the local Boycott Apartheid Israel group targeted Caterpillar for supplying Israeli Occupation Forces with machinery and technology used in their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steve Levin | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 1 July 2005 A local United Church of Christ resolution urging divestment from American companies doing business with Israel in the West Bank and Gaza will be voted on by delegates to the national church’s general synod that begins today in Atlanta. Approval of such a measure would

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | June 2005 The Israeli government has chosen Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “lead the campaign targeting Israeli academic institutions.”(1) It is an interesting choice. Perhaps it indicates that Israel is concerned that the academic boycott can do damage to its already shaky economy. Or, perhaps the dapper Netanyahu was chosen because

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ori Nir | Forward | 1 July 2005 Christian Right Hopes To Counter Critics WASHINGTON — The nation’s main coalition of evangelical Christian churches is under internal pressure to adopt a Middle East policy for the first time, and observers expect the group to emerge more centrist and moderate than its current image. In

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Opinion Section | The Telegraph | 24 June 2005 The Christian West has a marked, and growing, prejudice against the state of Israel that the government of that country ignores at its peril. The latest instance will be laid before the Anglican Consultative Council in Nottingham tomorrow, in the form of a recommendation that