Joan Armatrading’s statement posted on her homepage calling on leaders of Israel and Palestine, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshal, to “take that step” to solve “the problem” is a backwards way of acknowledging protests of her recent concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. When she plays SF at the Palace of Fine Arts on Tuesday Aug 10 we want her to know that to flagrantly disregard the Palestinian call for academic and cultural boycott is to take a stand with racism and apartheid.  

Read the full alert here >>> OR see it published in the San Francisco Bayview>>>

Dear BACEIA supporters,

June and July have been super exciting and inspiring months for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement in the US and we are excited to share the developments.

Most importantly, we want to urge you again to take action to support the Olympia boycott. See the call to action on their website:

http://www.olympiabds.org/  

BACEIA

Contents
2010 Assembly of Anti-Zionist Jews

BDS at the US Social Forum

Docks Protest

Olympia Victory and Plea forSupport

Read the full newsletter >>>

“To Know is Not Enough” How Hampshire became the First to Divest

a short documentary about the Hampshire College campaign for divestment from the occupation of Palestine. Hampshire is often credited with being the first US college to divest for the occupation, and this video attempts to understand the group and the campaign that made it happen. The video is constructed from interviews with over a dozen student activists from Hampshire College’s ‘Students for Justice in Palestine.’
Film completed 2010 by Will Delphia (a Hampshire Student). Runtime: 30 min.

Please take a moment to write to the Co-Op board and sign the petition — see below for more details!

Olympia Food Co-op Boycotts Israeli Goods!
Now We Need Your Help!

Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Olympia, WA, the hometown of Rachel Corrie, took the courageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the first grocery boycott of Israel in the US.

Already, there is a movement afoot to condemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. Please help us thank the Olympia Food Co-op and its board of directors for supporting human rights in Palestine!

• Send brief emails of thanks to board@olympiafood.coop
• Show your support for this boycott by signing our petition!
• Visit us at www.OlympiaBDS.org to learn more.

More Information

Olympia BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) is a grassroots network of community members in Olympia, WA, joining the call by Palestinian civil society for a non-violent, global movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions of Israel, until it meets the requirements of human rights and international law.

In answering to the Palestinian Call, we stand with Desmond Tutu, Naomi Klein, Elvis Costello, Richard Falk and many, many others. The failure of elected officials to hold Israel accountable for its atrocious actions forces global civil society to act, for a non-violent solution and justice for Palestinians and Israelis alike.

Olympia BDS
www.olympiabds.org
contact@olympiabds.org

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Please forward far and wide – all welcome (queer and straight) - all needed!

Don’t PINKWASH Israel’s Crimes

Apartheid — Occupation — Invasion — Murder — Racism — Ethnic Cleansing

For the first time since 2007, the Israeli Consulate is a sponsor of the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival. Queer communities have been targeted by the “Brand Israel” campaign as a receptive audience, and a useful cloak for Israel’s oppressive policies. But we are not so desperate for acceptance that we will ally ourselves with racists and murderers.

Join the demonstration at opening night of the Film Festival

Thursday June 17, 6 p.m.

Castro Theater, San Francisco

We will not be used. Israeli government out of our film festival!

Sponsored by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!)
endorsed by Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), SouthWest Asian and North African Bay Area Queers (SWANABAQ)

for info: www.quitpalestine. org; quitpalestine@ yahoo.com

ADs seen around the Castro:

Israel Out of Our Festival 1

Israel Out of Our Festival 2

Israel Out of Our Festival 3

Israel Out of Our Festival 4

The group did not specify why they were pulling out of the show, which was due to take place in Tel Aviv on 9 June.

However, organisers said the decision was linked to Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last week.

Read the complete BBC article here.

Boycott From Within originally published an Open Letter calling on the Pixies to boycott Israel.

May 31st, 2010, Israel attacked an aid flotilla to Gaza. 700 kidnapped, 9 murdered and Israel says it is the victim. Sound familiar? Same story since 1948.

END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA AND HOLD ISRAEL ACCOUNTABLE!

May 31st 2010 Israel Attacked Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Flotilla Attack Poster - Pic 2

And more on the continuing siege and strangulation of Gaza:

Gaza = 1.5 million Palestinian people trapped illegally by Israel in an open air prison.

In the face of injustice, civil actions are obligatory.

DEMAND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL

Gaza = Open Air Prison Pic 1

Gaza = Open Air Prison Pic 2

More than 40 percent of Norwegians are already boycotting Israeli products or are in favour of doing so, according to a poll published Wednesday, two days after Israel’s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

>>> Read the full article here

From the Jerusalem Post:

UK-based indie rock band Klaxons and popular audio-visual innovators Gorillaz Sound System have canceled their performance at the PicNic festival in Tel Aviv on Saturday, possibly in reaction to Monday’s flotilla fiasco, it was announced Friday.

Both bands were scheduled to perform alongside pop-rock megastars Placebo and up-’n-coming New Yorkers Hank ‘n Cupcakes.

While Placebo have already landed in Israel and are scheduled to perform as planned, the cancellation will do doubt come as a hard blow to concertgoers who paid a high price for an evening of performances by international acts who will headline Europe’s top festivals this summer.

 

>>> Read the Jerusalem Post article here