Posts Tagged ‘Boycott’

النقابات البريطانية في معركة المقاطعة

British trade unions call for Israel boycott النقابات البريطانية تدعو لمقاطعة إسرائيل

It’s a tribute to all those who have campaigned for Palestine, especially in the last year over Gaza, that the TUC has passed a resolution calling for boycott and critical of the Israeli union Histradut…

US, UK, Ireland: BDS campaigners score victories

From Haaretz…

Irish trade unionists said this week that they plan to launch a boycott of Israeli goods in 2009. Meanwhile, Manchester University Student Union adopted a resolution supporting a boycott of Israel.

And in the US…

Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has become the first of any college or university in the US to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
This landmark move is a direct result of a two-year intensive campaign by the campus group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The group pressured Hampshire College’s Board of Trustees to divest from six specific companies due to human rights concerns in occupied Palestine. More than 800 students, professors and alumni have signed SJP’s “institutional statement” calling for the divestment.