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Adri NieuwhofPublished: 2 December 2008The Electronic IntifadaThe movement in Europe to put pressure on companies that benefit from the occupation is growing. Over the last few months, European, Palestinian and Israeli activists have won significant victories toward the 2005 call by Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. In early October,…

Worldwide Activism, Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, November 29th, 2008 As a result of an intensive boycott campaign, Israeli water cooler company Eden Springs has been forced to close its East of Scotland depot. According to an industry insider, in recent months the company has lost hundreds of contracts across Scotland, which is an anomaly…

Israeli water cooler company Eden Springs has closed its East of Scotland depot after losing, according to a well placed industry insider, ‘hundreds of contracts’ across Scotland.  Among the major losses in recent months, in an industry that is generally expanding, are contracts with East Lothian and West Lothian Councils and Caledonian MacBrayne Ferrries, the…

Release, Leeds PSG, 24 November 2008 Electronic IntifadaLeeds University Union agreed last week, by a vote of 12 to 11, to send a motion to referendum which will label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism and silence pro-Palestinian groups on campus. The motion, shrouded in the language of combating anti-Semitism, is a reversal of a motion passed two…

From The Jewish Chronicle Anshel Pfeffer and Candice Krieger November 20, 2008 Senior Israeli diplomats and members of President Shimon Peres’s entourage have expressed their disappointment at the absence of pro-Israel demonstrators around the events in the presidential visit. “In every visit that Peres makes abroad,” said one of the president’s aides, “there are anti-Israel…