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  • 2 Feb 2013
    United Methodists asked to avoid SodaStream products

    United Methodists have been asked to avoid SodaStream products advertised during the Super Bowl, as part of a boycott of illegal Israeli settlements.

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    A Church of Scotland call for a UK ban of goods from unlawful Israeli settlements has had to be withdrawn because of a legal threat in Israel.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

  • 17 Jan 2011
    John Lewis bans products from illegal settlements

    Leading UK department store John Lewis has stopped stocking products manufactured in an illegal Israeli settlement.

  • 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.