Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 6 October 2008 Israeli employers have found ways of evading the high court ruling by for instance issuing pay slips with false attendance reports. The normal practice is to register fewer working days than those actually worked, so it appears that the minimum wage is being paid.” According to the…
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B’tselem: West Bank sewage runs amuck By Dan Izenberg, Jerusalem Post 27th June 2009 Jewish settlements are…built on the top of hills…[so]…”the sewage flowed down towards the olive orchards of Azmut village and then, along an open channel to the center of the village, a few meters from the houses and adjacent to a…
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Israeli soldiers poured dirt, stones and toxic chemicals in the only well in the hamlet of Khirbat Makehl near the village of Ya’bad in the northern West Bank overnight on Saturday, according to Palestinians in the community. The village’s official representative, Walid Hamdan, said soldiers riding in three military jeeps entered the…
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US professors: Support for Israel eroded Jerusalem Post, 29th June 2009 Unwavering support for Israeli policy has eroded dramatically both on American college campuses and within the United States as a whole, according to a group of American university professors who on Sunday concluded an academic exchange program here, sponsored by the Yitzhak Rabin Center……
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Palestinian academic union urges colleagues to back boycott in support of ‘struggle for justice’ Dr Amjad Barham (President of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees ) While we value academic and institutional forms of support, we feel that this is not sufficient. Decades of life under military occupation have taught…
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The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) today (Wednesday 24 June) rejected the Foreign Office’s “dismay” at trade union’s supporting boycotts of Israel, and suggested this is an indication that the UK Government is out of step with the views of workers on this matter. The Foreign Secretary David Miliband MP yesterday stated that: “The Government…
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