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Boycott News Archive
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Co-op boycotts exports from Israel’s West Bank settlements
Posted on 30/04/2012 | 30/04/2012Guardian/ Observer UK’s largest mutual takes lead among European supermarkets The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from... -
Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously!
Posted on 27/04/2012 | 27/04/2012Scottish TUC delegates join Palestine freedom struggle – unanimously! The delegates to the Annual Conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the umbrella group for every trade union in... -
Vote at Coop AGMs against trade with complicit Israeli companies
Posted on 27/04/2012 | 27/04/2012There’s a motion at both Northern region member AGM meetings that calls for the Co-operative group to now implement the motion overwhelmingly passed at last year’s Northern AGMs, which called... -
Stockholm airport bars Israeli airline over security inspection methods
Posted on 21/04/2012 | 21/04/2012Haaretz Arkia has to stop flying to Stockholm because the Swedish capital’s international airport now refuses to allow Israeli methods of security inspections dictated by the Shin Bet security service,... -
Leeds University cancels Ahava booking
Posted on 11/04/2012 | 11/04/2012BRICUP Ahava, the Israeli cosmetics company that steals its ingredients from Occupied Palestinian land attempted to book Leeds University’s Weetwood Hall for a promotional event. A campaign by Leeds students... -
Adidas draws Arab ire over Jerusalem marathon
Posted on 06/04/2012 | 06/04/2012Aljazeera Arab youth and sports ministers have announced a boycott of sportswear manufacturer Adidas over the company’s sponsorship of last month’s Jerusalem marathon. “All companies that have sponsored the marathon... -
Distributor in Japan Drops Israeli Company due to its Illegal Practices
Posted on 29/03/2012 | 29/03/2012BDS Movement DaitoCrea, the general agent in Japan for Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, announced on its website that they would no longer be distributing Ahava products manufactured in the Israeli... -
Major Norwegian retail chain stops sales of occupation products from Ahava
Posted on 29/03/2012 | 29/03/2012BDS Movement Norwegian retail chain VITA made public on Friday their decision to stop all sales of products originating from settlements in occupied Palestine. VITA will therefore stop selling products... -
Palestinian writers, activists disavow racism, anti-Semitism of Gilad Atzmon
Posted on 16/03/2012 | 16/03/2012EI Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon Note: This statement was first published by the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)... -
YEP Article: Leeds incinerator campaign defeated
Posted on 20/11/2011 | 20/11/2011YEP Published on Saturday 19 November 2011 07:00 Calls for Leeds City Council to reconsider its decision to build an incinerator to deal with household rubbish have been defeated. The council... -
Finkelstein says international law is powerful weapon for boycot
Posted on 15/11/2011 | 15/11/2011JBIG. Professor Norman Finkelstein stormed UK campuses in the week to November 11, lecturing to packed auditoriums in London, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham on How to solve the Israel-Palestine... -
Palestinian Freedom Riders to ride settler buses to Jerusalem
Posted on 14/11/2011 | 14/11/2011Inspired by the Freedom Rides of the US Civil Rights Movement Palestinian activists will attempt to board segregated Israeli settler buses to occupied East Jerusalem Groups of Palestinian Freedom Riders... -
Leeds council’s selection of Veolia for incinerator deal angers YEP readers
Posted on 01/11/2011 | 01/11/2011Reply to YEP to counter pro-Israeli letters. Write, email or ring the Yorkshire Evening Post. E-mail: eped@ypn.co.uk Tel: 0113 2388536 Write to: The Editor, Readers Letters, Yorkshire Evening Post, Wellington Street, Leeds. LS1... -
Leeds PSC Statement on Council’s Selection of Veolia for Incinerator Contract
Posted on 01/11/2011 | 01/11/20111st November 2011 (for immediate use) Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Leeds PSC) expresses its profound disappointment at the decision of Leeds City Council officers to recommend to Councillors the selection... -
Edinburgh University Students Vote to Ban G4S
Posted on 31/10/2011 | 31/10/2011In a victory for the Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) yesterday overwhelmingly passed a motion through its Student Council to block their contract...