divestment

California State University East Bay, University of Oregon urge divestment from Israeli occupation profiteers.

No way to mitigate complicity in war crimes while doing business with settlements, says Human Right Watch.

Israel lobby groups on and off campus continue to harass, intimidate and smear students supportive of Palestinian rights.

California community college faculty pass BDS resolution as University of California students launch collective divestment campaign.

City votes to screen companies it does business with for human rights abuses.

Athletes, artists, unions, city councils cut ties with Israeli apartheid.

Campaigners must aim to build new political consensus to ensure permanent gains.

Names of dozens of firms involved in settlements revealed as pressure on Israel grows.

HeidelbergCement tries to present illegal exploitation of land and labor as positive.

All of Israel’s top banks willingly finance war crimes, report finds.

Israel's iron walls cannot suppress the rising sun of Palestinian emancipation.

Occupation-Free Portland welcomes ”victory for citizen activism,” but wanted focus on specific rights violators.

Pro-Israel groups fail to stop measure aimed at firms complicit in violating Palestinian rights.

Largest faith-based pension fund in US violates its own rules by investing in Israeli settlements.

Students at Dalhousie University score victory in face of intense smear campaign.

Watered down divestment measure passes in Minnesota.

The Unitarian Universalist Association may formally declare that it won’t buy shares from Caterpillar and HP.

Anti-BDS efforts pushed by legislators advance in New York and Illinois.

Fight for divestment continues at University of Minnesota, student funds threatened over divestment at Vassar and a Zionist group seeks to ban SJPs in New York City.

Professors at US universities form Faculty for Justice in Palestine to support student activism and protect academic freedom.

Florida students bypass veto of divestment resolution as student-led campaign grows.

Students demand administration stop meddling in student government affairs.

There is no way to do business with settlements without participating in Israel’s crimes, report says.

Methodists put Israel on list of “high risk” countries for human rights abuses.

US has penalized settlement products labeled “Made in Israel” for 20 years.

Anti-BDS legislation also introduced in California by lawmaker who says Israel has “divine right” to West Bank.

Mark Yudof will use his connections in higher education to fight boycott movement.

HeidelbergCement’s West Bank quarries violate basic human rights, says Danish pensions giant PFA.

The Conservative government says BDS harms UK's "international interests."

University’s board of directors will discuss divestment after the successful student vote.

Palestinian civil society in Gaza urges escalation of international activisim to hold Israel accountable for its “criminal behavior.”

The UK banking giant has defended its investment in Elbit in Orwellian terms.

[ PIC 20/08/2014 - 02:55 PM ] TUBAS, (PIC)– The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed on Wednesday morning Aqaba town east of Tubas in the Jordan Valley and started demolishing a number of homes and notifying several others with demolition. Head of the village council Sami Sadeq told a PIC reporter that the IOF demolished […]