Murdoch Press and the Fictional Jewish Chocolatier

    This article was first published on Palestine Chronicle  on 26 August 2011   By Samah Sabawi The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist.  The invention of Max [...]

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Omar Barghouti speaks on BDS

video by: sternchenproductions on Jul 13, 2011 Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst whose opinion columns have appeared in several publications. He is also a human rights activist involved in civil struggle to end oppression and conflict in Palestine. Barghouti is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic [...]

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Enough With The Nazi Slurs

This article was first published on New Matilda 25 Aug 2011 By Antony Loewenstein: New Matilda Equating the BDS movement with Nazism is both offensive and outrageous. So why aren’t members of the Jewish community speaking out on this, asks Antony Loewenstein Joseph Stalin changed his name and so did New South Wales Federal Greens [...]

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The campaign against the Max Brenner protesters

This article first appeared on ABC Drum. In the last couple of weeks,  the pro-Zionist Murdoch Press and Zionists supporters of Israel have gone into overdrive trying to smear both the Palestinian initiated BDS campaign ad non-violent protestors involved in the Max Brenner BDS protests in Melbourne.  The Murdoch press have made it clear that [...]

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BNC Condemns Repression of BDS Activism in Australia

BNC Secretariat: August 16, 2011 Occupied Palestine – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition and the Palestinian leadership of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, commends human rights and Palestine solidarity organizations across Australia who signed a unity statement reiterating their support for BDS [...]

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UNIFIED STATEMENT: Human Rights and Community Organisations condemn attempts to silence BDS movement

13 August 2011 We the undersigned call on the Victorian Consumer Affairs Minister Michael O’Brien to withdraw allegations he made singling out several pro-Palestine advocacy groups calling for them to be investigated by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) for an alleged suspicion that they may be involved in  ‘secondary boycotts’ against Israeli-owned businesses [...]

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Israeli BDS campaigners stand in solidarity with Australian BDS movement

In early July, Israeli pro-BDS campaigners issued a statement in solidarity with Melbourne activists arrest on July 1, when a peaceful non-violent BDS action outside of Max Brenner in the Queen Victoria centre was brutally attack by police. Israeli activists, today (11 August) issued a second statement in solidarity with pro-Palestine solidarity activists and the [...]

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Australia’s repression of BDS movement coordinated with Israel

Originally posted on Electronic Intifada By Kim Bullimore: 9 August 2011 Australian solidarity activists are facing intense police repression. (Erik Anderson/Flickr)   In the largest show of support for the Palestinian-initiated boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign so far in Australia, more than 350 persons marched on 29 July in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle — and [...]

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Perth: Speakout for free speech and a free Palestine

Friends of Palestine WA has called a speakout this Friday to support the BDS (boycott, divestment & sanctions against Apartheid Israel) campaigners who were arrested in dawn raids on August 9 in Melbourne. The speakout will also be taking up threats by the Victorian government to use trade practices law against the BDS movement. This [...]

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Brisbane: Boycott apartheid Israel! Boycott Max Brenner!

Boycott apartheid Israel! Boycott Max Brenner! Max Brenner Chocolates is a 100% Israeli-owned company belonging to the Strauss Group, the second largest Israeli food and beverage company. On the “corporate responsibility” section of its website, the Strauss Group emphasises the support it gives to the Israeli army. The Strauss group is proud that for more [...]

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