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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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