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I.     Indispensable documents, databases, and calls to action
II.   Various organizations and web sites promoting boycott
III.  Lists of Israeli Products
IV.  Motorola
V.   Activist Materials
VI.  Articles on Boycott Issues and Events
(and a few flicks)


I. Indispensable documents, databases, and calls to action:

Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions: lessons learned in effective solidarity
Ma'an Development Center's extensive brochure on BDS, containing much historical and theoretical background.
http://www.maan-ctr.org/publications/Factsheets/Boycott.pdf

BDS Day of Action – March 30, 2010
http://bdsdayofaction.wordpress.com/
Web all actions and events undertaken on the second annual Global Boycott Day

Cairo Declaration 
Gaza Freedom Marchers January 1, 2010 Declaration to end Israeli Apartheid. 

(Cairo) Gaza Freedom Marchers'  declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid.

http://codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=5270

Global BDS Movement: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions for Palestine http://bdsmovement.net/
A central web site for information, analysis, exchange of ideas and experiences regarding BDS.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52 

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
http://www.pacbi.org/
Contains guidelines for applying the international cultural boycott of Israel, as well as international news regarding BDS.

Who Profits               
http://www.whoprofits.org/
Comprehensive and authoritative database that exposes companies and corporations involved in the occupation.


II. Various organizations and web sites promoting boycott:

Adalah NY                 
http://www.adalahny.org
A grassroots strategic alliance of concerned organizations and individuals in New York, formed to demand an immediate, unconditional, and permanent end to U.S. and U.S.-sponsored Israeli aggression in the Middle East.
See also:  http://adalahny.org/index.php/boycott-divestment-a-sanction/consumer-boycotts-against-israel
and   http://adalahny.org/images/image/consumer_boycott_flyer.pdf

Ahava: Stolen Beauty boycott campaign site            
www.stolenbeauty.org
Code Pink's campaign against Ahava products: Expose the Ugly Secrets from the Dead Sea.

BOYCOTT!: Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within: http://www.boycottisrael.info/ 
A call to Palestinians and Jews, citizens of Israel, to support the boycott. 

A variety of essential articles and declarations about Boycott.


Companies Supporting the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land
http://www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com/profiting.pdf 
The Interfaith Peace Initiative's encyclopedic (129-page) list and description of international companies involved in the Israeli economy. 
See also http://www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com/profit.php

Corporate Watch: section on Israeli companies
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3192
This page of Corporate Watch's research site lists numerous large corporations that produce in Israel, benefit from trade with Israel, or support the occupation.

Davis Committee for Palestinian Rights
http://davisbds.org/about-us/
Californian organizaiton involved in boycott campaign with local food co-op -- see also http://davisbds.org/why-the-davis-food-co-op/

Electronic Intifada BDS page   
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/boycott-divestment-sanctions.shtml
EI's topic page linking relevant articles on boycott, divestment, sanctions, and authoritative Palestinian calls for BDS.

Global Actions To End Israel's Occupation & Human Rights Violations
http://www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com/globalactions.pdf
    
A "representative review of diverse approaches...initiated by the Palestine-Israel Action Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan Quakers."

News and Resources for the U.K. Boycott Movement
http://www.bigcampaign.org/
see also: A Boycott Compendium: Guide to the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign for Palestine http://s109811772.websitehome.co.uk/bigcampaign/uploads/pdfs/bigcampaignboycottlist.pdf

Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database)
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/topic.php?tid=96
Who says what, why they say it and what others say about them
A very extensive, annotated database linking to articles, books, statements, and other documents on boycott, divestment, and sanctions.

Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism                   http://www.quitpalestine.org/
Organization representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists in solidarity with Palestine. Site includes resources for BDS campaign.
see also: http://www.quitpalestine.org/dbia/traders%20tri%20fold%20side%201.pdf
and http://www.quitpalestine.org/dbia/traders%20tri%20fold%20side%202.pdf
a two-sided tri-fold brochure on boycott.

Stop the Wall                         
http://stopthewall.org/news/boycot.shtml
The boycott section of the grassroots Palestinian anti-Apartheid Wall campaign:
see also: http://www.stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/968.shtml
--The text of the united Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, from July 7th, 2005.

Trader Joe's: Public letter to Trader Joe's urging the company to stop selling Israeli products
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/trader-joes-de-shelve-israeli-products/
Signed by many organizations and activists nationwide.
June 6th, 2009 

US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/
A U.S. campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by PACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

US Campaign to End the Occupation's boycott section
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=203
Contains links to the US Campaign's tour page, Motorola campaign, Caterpillar campaign, and boycott and divestment resources.

World Council of Churches: Statement on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/documents/central-committee/geneva-2009/reports-and-documents/report-on-public-issues/statement-on-israeli-settlements-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory.html
    Calls for an international boycott of settlement products and services, for member churches to inform themselves about settlement products imported into their countries and for churches to practice morally responsible investment in order to influence businesses linked to the Israeli occupation and its illegal settlements.

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III. Lists of Israeli Products:

Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid Product Guide http://www.baceia.org/resources/product-guide/
An extensive listing of name of product, description, and location where it is sold in the Bay Area. 

Shop Israel                 http://www.israeliconsulate.org/shop/clothes/south.htm
A patriotic site listing clothing items, toys, jewelry, houseware, cosmetics, food, and more products from Israel. The site lists outlets in the Bay Area, but the information can be useful elsewhere.

BuyIsraelGoods.org
http://www.buyisraelgoods.org/scripts/mrkt_Home.asp?market_id=9&category_id=20:
Another patriotic Israel site with an extensive list of Israeli goods and where to buy (or, in our case, to boycott) them.

Israeli Products.com            
http://israeliproducts.com
Yet another Israeli patriotic site that can help identify Israeli products and learn where they are being sold.

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IV. Motorola

Good News from Israel http://www.newsoftheday.com/israel/old/2003_06_01_index.html
Israeli patriotic site that announces development of mobile phone system by  Motorola for IDF.

Militaryphotos.net
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12389
Israeli patriotic site that announces development of cellular network by  Motorola for IDF

Millions spent on 'virtual fences'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154526030992&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Jerusalem Post article from September 8th, 2006, describing development of radar system and other security measures by Motorola for settlements around Hebron

New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI)            http://boycottisraelnyc.org/
Apartheid: We Don't Buy It -- New York-based boycott campaign organization.
see also: http://boycottisraelnyc.org/goodbye-moto-home
NYCBI's Motorola page

US Campaign to End the Occupation - information on Motorola
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=2440


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V. Activist Materials

Alternative products
http://imeu.net/news/article0014047.shtml
Profile of Nasser Abufarha, social entrepreneur and scholar. Abufarha has developed an import business for Palestinian olive oil and traditional delicacies to Europe and North America. Suggests possible alternatives for boycotted goods.


Activist Poster: "Boycott the Bloodshed; Divest from Israel"
http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2009/01/new_poster_boycott_the_bloodsh.html
Collaboration between artist Faviana Rodriguez and INCITE, Women of Color Against Violence

Web links of boycott actions:
French de-shelving actions: http://www.europalestine.com/article.php3?id_article=3908
and http://www.europalestine.com/article.php3?id_article=3814
and http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/boycot+israel+/video/x8jj7c_operation-de-boycot-2_news 

A
30 minute documentary, "To Know is Not Enough", by Will Delphia on the Hampshire College Divestment-BDS-struggle. 
http://toknowisnotenough.info/

FAQ on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)     http://imeu.net/news/article0019584.shtml
A primer from the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) including answers to questions such as:
What is BDS?; What are the goals of BDS?; Who is calling for BDS?; What are some examples of how BDS was used during Apartheid in South Africa? ...and much more.
Published August 12, 2010


VI. Articles on Boycott Issues and Events
(in reverse chronological order)

Boycott of Theater in Israeli Settlement Grows
The New York Times, Aug. 27, 2010

Yediot reports on damage to settlement industry caused by targeted boycott

The Politics of economics: The boycott on Israel is expanding

August 26, 2010


Letter: Co-op policies do permit politics
Letter to the editor of The Leader, Port Townsend newspaper, about the proposed boycott of Israeli goods at the Port Townsend Co-op
August 25, 2010

Norway Divests from Leviev Companies Due to Israeli Settlement Construction

August 24


Activists tell shipping firm Zim -- Israeli ships not welcome in Vancouver

By Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition
August 24, 2010


Support builds for boycotts against Israel, activists say
Boston Globe,  August 22, 2010


Boycott of Israeli goods threatens to divide Port Townsend Food Co-op members
Discussion of problematic issues in Olympia and Port Townsend related to boycott of Israeli goods
The Leader, August 16, 2010

Israeli product boycott debate cordial, passionate
Around 300 meet and debate Olympia Co-op's decision to boycott Israel
The Olympian, August 13, 2010

UK Dance Group Faithless join the Growing List of Artists Choosing to Boycott Israel‏
August 12, 2010

Open letter to Chick Corea: don't turn your back on Gaza
Students from Gaza write Chick Corea urging him to participate in the cultural boycott.
August 9, 2010

Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them
Backlash over threat to outlaw supporters of boycott movement aimed at ending the continued occupation of the West Bank

July 11, 2010

Swedish blockade of all goods to and from Israel now underway
June 23, 2010

Elton John aside, Israelis feel growing isolation
June 18, 2010

Illinois Methodists vote to divest from the occupation
by Adam Horowitz, June 17, 2010

Co-Author of Universal Declaration of Human Rights endorses BDS
Stephane Hessel, holocaust survivor and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Huffington Post
June 15, 2010

Artists’ Boycott Strikes a Dissonant Note Inside Israel
By ISABEL KERSHNER   June 9, 2010

The Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement
Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss

June 9, 2010

Boycott Targets Stars From Elvis to Elton
By Nathan Guttman
The Forward,
May 19, 2010

Episcopal Peace Fellowship Announces: National Executive Council's Statement on Divestment, Boycott and Economic Sanctions as a means of Nonviolent Resistance
May 10, 2010

Archbishop Tutu expresses "great joy" at Berkeley vote for divestment from Israeli occupation:
April 11, 2010 

http://dearbornboycottsisrael.blogspot.com/2010/04/archbishop-tutu-it-was-with-great-joy.html

Flash Mob for Palestine, performed by PSC -- Seatte
Mar 27 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n7C3M3uk-M

"Flashmob Boycott Israel"
http://www.youtube.com/FreePalestineNL
YouTube video of a Dutch solidarity group performing a creative and dramatic street theater action promoting boycott of Israeli products

JCPA Taking Direct Aim at Anti-Israel Boycotters
Jewish Council for Public Affairs says BDS campaign should be regarded with "utmost seriousness and urgency"
February 24th, 2010
http://www.forward.com/articles/126327/

Christian Peacemaker Team - Palestine endorses Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement
February 23rd, 2010
http://mn.breakthebonds.org/?p=425

Milestones in the history of the Israeli BDS movement: A brief chronology
by Rachel Giora January 18, 2010
http://usacbi.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/milestones-in-the-history-of-the-israeli-bds-movement-a-brief-chronology/

Key U.S. senators slam threat to withhold Israel loan guarantees
Ha'aretz, January 10, 2010  
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtStEng.jhtml?itemNo=

1141535&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&title=%27Finance%20Minister:%
20We%20don%27t%20need%20U.S.%20loan%20guarantees%27&dyn_server=172.20.5.5

Press release from USACBI on anniversary of Gaza assault
United States Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) 
December 23, 2009
http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=1135 

Swedes Move Mul-T-lock factory out of "disputed" Barkan industrial zone
December 22, 2009

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=46804

UK issues new guidance on labelling of food from illegal West Bank settlements
December 10, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/10/guidance-labelling-food-israeli-settlements 

First Coordinated European Action of the BDS Campaign against Agrexco/Carmel 
November 25, 2009
http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article8021

Worldview: Chicago Public Radio interview with Omar Barghouti and Naomi Klein
September 22, 2009
"Is Boycotting Israel Appropriate? A Palestinian Perspective"
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_WV.aspx?episode=36940

Boycott Israel: An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it's the only way to save his country.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gordon20-2009aug20,0,1126906.story
by Neve Gordon, Prominent Israeli Political Science professor and anti-Occupation activist. Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2009
see also: The Last Refuge            http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1110514.html
by Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz, September 3, 2009

Peace Group Boycott Campaign of Israeli Ahava Cosmetics
http://www.examiner.com/x-16503-LA-County-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d21-Peace-Group-Boycott-Campaign-of-Israeli-Ahava-Cosmetics
Lawrence Gist   LA County Foreign Policy Examiner   July 21, 2009

Press release: US activists de-shelve Israeli products from national grocer http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10618.shtml 
QUIT (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism) June 23rd, 2009

Normalization or Sanctions?

http://www.alternativenews.org/michael-warschawski/1931
Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
May 18, 2009

AIPAC executive director fears the growing movement to sanction Israel could fundamentally change US policy towards Israel.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/05/howard-kohr-bds.html#more
by Adam Horowitz on May 7, 2009

When Companies Begin to Lose Money, They Start to Listen: The Israel Boycott is Biting              
http://www.counterpunch.org/hijab05012009.html
By Nadia Hijab
May 1 - 3, 2009

Israeli exports hit by European boycotts after attacks on Gaza
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/israel-gaza-attacks-boycotts-food-industry
A fifth of Israeli exporters report drop in demand as footage of Gaza attacks changes behavior of consumers and investors
Rachel Shabi, The Guardian, April 3, 2009

Israeli poll indicates 21% of exporters have felt effects of boycott http://www.imemc.org/article/59662
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News March 30, 2009

Israelis Are Beginning to See the Power of BDS
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/hever090309.html
by Shir Hever, Monthly Review. March 9, 2009

The Case for Academic Boycott
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20414
Jason Kunin    Z Magazine  January 31, 2009

Why I'm boycotting Israeli produce
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/jan/23/israel-food-boycott-palestinians-gaza
Joanna Blythman  January 23, 2009

Enough. It's time for a boycott
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/10/naomi-klein-boycott-israel
Naomi Klein: The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa
The Guardian, Saturday January 10, 2009

Boycotting settlement products taking its toll
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1047154.html
Adam Keller, Haaretz 16/12/2008

Countering the Critics: The Boycott and Palestinian Groups
http://www.counterpunch.org/barghouti10212008.html 
by Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, October 21, 2008


Boycott Movement Targets Israel
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/15/3192
by George Bisharat    San Francisco Chronicle  August 15, 2007

National Boycott Over Settlements Products

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/campaigns/boycott_settlements_products/
Questions and Answers regarding settlement product boycott by Israeli peace group Gush Shalom. Includes list of settler products.

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