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  • 1 Dec 2012
    Digital activism and the 24-hour Facebook boycott

    Mention online activism and you can trigger some extreme reactions. At one end of the spectrum are people who believe the future is all about Facebook, Twitter and online petitions. At the other, those who scoff at the very idea, seeing it as an excuse for laziness and pointing out that Facebook and Twitter are powerful corporations that we should be opposing.

  • 20 Aug 2012
    United Church of Canada backs boycott of goods from Occupied Terriotories

    The United Church of Canada has agreed to boycott products produced in Israeli settlements located within occupied Palestinian territory.

  • 9 Dec 2011
    US and Cuban church leaders seek 'normalised relations'

    Church leaders from the US and Cuba have wrapped up a five-day meeting in Havana with a call for "normalised relations" between the two countries.

  • 14 Jul 2011
    Israel anti-boycott law attacks free expression, says Amnesty

    A law making it an offence to call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression.

  • 27 May 2011
    Israel is holding the Kirk's work hostage

    The Church of Scotland General Assembly agreed, under threat, to withdraw a resolution calling for a UK ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Paraic Reamonn says that the ethnically-defined nature of the current Israeli state, its treatment of Palestinians and what its policies are doing to the identity of Jewish people should be a matter of priority concern to Christians and others of goodwill.

  • 25 May 2011
    Kirk boycott resolution scuppered by Israeli legal 'intimidation'

    A Church of Scotland call for a UK ban of goods from unlawful Israeli settlements has had to be withdrawn because of a legal threat in Israel.

  • 9 Feb 2011
    Quakers in Britain consider Palestinian call for boycott

    Quakers in Britain are considering a challenging call from Palestinian Quakers in the West Bank to consider a boycott over the Occupied Territories.

  • 11 Nov 2010
    BT urged to disconnect from human rights abuses

    Human rights campaigners are today calling on BT to end its complicity in 'serious' breaches of international law and human rights abuses.

  • 15 Sep 2010
    Pressure stepped up on government to ban goods from illegal Israeli settlements

    Campaigners yesterday stepped up their pressure on the British government to ban goods from illegal Israeli settlements after Israel’s Prime MBenjamin, Netanyahu signalled he will not extend a partial moratorium on settlement construction.

  • 29 Aug 2010
    Israeli settlement trade in the spotlight

    The recent acquittal of four London-based activists for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) raises profound issues for traders in products which originate from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says Simon Natas, a lawyer involved in the case.