Declaration, Bilbao Initiative, 4 November 2008 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9934.shtmlThe following declaration was issued on 31 October 2008 following a gathering of Palestinian, progressive Israeli and international organizations and social movements in Bilbao, Spain: For the past 60 years, the indigenous Palestinian people has been scattered in the Diaspora and fragmented within its homeland by walls and policies…
Continue Reading Bilbao initiative: declaration and action plan
http://www.bdsmovement.net The broad consensus among Palestinian civil society about the need for a broad and sustained Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resulted in the Palestinian Call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel that was launched in July 2005 with the initial endorsement of over 170 Palestinian organizations. The signatories to this call…
Continue Reading The Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Campaign National Committee (BNC)
22 November 2007Al-Bireh, Ramallahhttp://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/first-palestinian-conference-for-the-boycott-of-israel-bds-20071128.html “The Campaign for the Boycott of Israel will re-vitalize popular resistance and restore dignity to the Palestinian people To read the Declaration of Principles, click here. An important mile-stone in building the global BDS campaign was achieved in Ramallah on 22 November 2007. Some 300 activists, members of unions, associations and…
Continue Reading Summary Report: First Palestinian Conference for the Boycott of Israel (BDS)
by Adri Nieuwhof, Psychologist & Human Rights Activist, June 25th, 2006 http://www.stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1205.shtml Early May 2005 Stop the Wall Campaign published an article on its website entitled ‘Challenging Tramways of Apartheid – Swiss activists block Connex shuttle run’. The article evoked the memories of campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa. Research Connex is owned by the…
by Jamal Juma’ Comments () guardian.co.uk, Friday October 24 2008 09.00 BST In less than three months, the mandate of the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, legally ends. With the Palestinian Legislative Council frozen since 2006 and the administrations of Salam Fayyad in the West Bank and Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza…
by Phyllis Bennis, December 3, 2007 www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15741 Source: Institute for Policy Studies Myth #1) The Annapolis meeting was designed to launch serious new negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians that aimed at ending the occupation and producing a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region based on a two-state solution. In fact, the two…