Category: Boycott & Divestment

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexa Smith | Presbyterian Church (USA) | 2 July 2004 RICHMOND, July 2 — The 216th General Assembly approved several measures opposing the Israeli occupation of Palestine Friday, including a call for the corporate witness office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to begin gathering data to support a selective divestment of holdings in multinational

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 6 July 2004 Leading proponents of an academic boycott against Israel today condemned the killing of an academic in the West Bank and vowed to step up their campaign to cut ties with Israeli universities. University professor Khaled Sallah and his 16-year-old son Mohammed were among five Palestinians

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop the Wall Campaign | 28 February 2005 The Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has launched calls for a sports boycott of Israel, as its national team look set to take on the Apartheid state in the qualifying stages of the World Cup. Activists from the Republic of Ireland, a country with its own struggle

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stephen Brown | EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE | 21 February 2005 The World Council of Churches (WCC) on February 21 urged its members to consider economic measures to oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and praised the action of a U.S. denomination that has started a process of selective divestment from companies linked to the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rachel Zoll | Common Dreams | 23 February 2005 Published on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 by the Associated Press NEW YORK – The governing body of the World Council of Churches has asked its members to consider bringing economic pressure on companies that benefit from Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories. American Jewish leaders

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe and Justin Podur | Zmag | 20 February 2005 lan Pappe is a professor of History at Haifa University in Israel. He is an activist for Palestinian rights. He was in Toronto in February to give the keynote speech at ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ at the University of Toronto. He was interviewed by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Resolution adopted by UW-Platteville Faculty Senate | 25 January 2005 WHEREAS, American principles, values, and traditions emphasize the right of the individual to basic freedoms without regard to ethnic origin or religious affiliation and support the protection and extension of these freedoms to all peoples around the globe, and where the systematic denial of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Awda Press Release | 1 February 2005 (Madison, WI- 02/01/05) – The Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville adopted a resolution last week demanding that the University divest from companies that provide the Israeli Army with weapons, equipment, and supporting systems. The resolution urges the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | January/February 2005 On Dec. 5, some 270 academics from around the world convened in London to discuss the implementation of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and the severing of cultural links with Israel. The aim of the conference was to refine the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Irene Brugel | Jews for Justice for Palestinians | 8 December 2004 The conference on Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and Principles at SOAS on December 5th showed that there is quite strong support for a ‘comprehensive’ boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In commenting on part of the discussion I want to make clear that