CODEPINK Co-Director Ariel Gold Denied Entry and Deported by Israel for Her Pro-BDS Stance

“The goal of denying me and others entry is to obstruct our relationships with Palestinians on the ground, and with their peaceful movement for freedom and equal rights. As a result, Israel is increasingly isolating itself as a pariah state.” – Ariel Gold

Emma Fiala
بواسطة Emma Fiala

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- Just a few months after Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry released a full list of organizations whose activists will be barred from entering Israel for advancing the cause of the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement, Jewish-American activist and CODEPINK national co-director Ariel Gold was denied entry and then

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Gazans See Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement As Last Hope for International Justice

“The Palestinian people of Gaza know very well that they cannot get their inalienable rights by using the military equation since Israel has the fourth strongest army in the world. They cannot get them through negotiations, as those have also failed us. The power of the people, however, is on our side.”

Ramona Wadi
بواسطة Ramona Wadi
Gaza BDS Banner

Gaza is in urgent need of opening spaces on many levels. The geophysical space -- incarcerated by Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza and its construction of barriers to “protect Israel’s citizens with power and sophistication,” according to Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, which are fast becoming normalized and barely worthy of mention in

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Shakira Cancels Tel Aviv Performance in Wake of Gaza Massacres

Shakira’s decision to postpone her appearance comes amid international backlash following Israel’s mass shooting of unarmed Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip, which led to over 100 deaths and 13,000 wounded after the Israeli military used live ammunition in an attempt to quell the demonstrations.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Colombian singer Shakira, center, visits a school in Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Shakira is attending the Presidential Conference, sponsored by Israeli President Shimon Peres and will take part in panel alongside comedian Sarah Silverman. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA – Despite earlier reports in the Israeli press that Latina pop sensation Shakira would resist activist pressure from the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement and perform in Tel Aviv all the same, Spanish language media is widely reporting that the Colombian-born singer has suspended her much-anticipated appearance in Israel.

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Israel Calls on the EU to End Funding of Pro-BDS Groups

The report was the latest salvo by Israel in its fight against a global movement calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions over of its treatment of the Palestinians.

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بواسطة Associated Press
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel called on the European Union on Friday to halt funding to more than a dozen European and Palestinian non-governmental organizations that it says promote boycotts against Israel, saying the financial support violates the EU’s stated policy that it opposes boycotts against the Jewish state. Israel’s Strategic Affairs

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South Carolina’s New Hate Speech Law Outlaws Criticism of the Israeli Occupation

In bill author Clemmons’ view, discussing the military occupation of the West Bank, a reality recognized even by Israel’s Supreme Court, would be considered anti-Semitic under the new South Carolina law.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Rep. Alan Clemmons delivers an address from the steps of the South Carolina Statehouse in a speech given via satellite to the Restoring Courage rally in Jerusalem in 2011.

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA -- The state of South Carolina will become the first state in the nation to legislate a definition of anti-Semitism that considers certain criticisms of the Israeli government to be hate speech. The language, which was inserted into the state’s recently passed $8 billion budget, offers a much more vague definition of

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America’s Most “Jewish” Secular College Votes to Divest from Israel

Barnard has the highest proportion of Jewish students among secular colleges in the United States. Fully a third of its student body is Jewish, meaning that a significant number of those Jewish students either supported the divestment referendum or were uninterested in actively opposing it.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
A display erected by students at Barnard College and Columbia University in protest of Israeli apartheid. (Photo: Godland)

NEW YORK – Students at Barnard College just voted overwhelmingly to ask the school’s administration to divest from and boycott eight companies that do business with Israel and profit from the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians. Barnard, a women’s college that is part of Columbia University, passed the referendum by a 64 to 36 percent

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