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By Jinjirrie, on May 18th, 2012% 17 May 2012 UPDATE: JLo has not yet confirmed she will be entertaining apatheid Israel. Her management has been asked, we are waiting for a response. In June 2010, Reuters reported that Lopez made a choice to boycott playing in Turkish-held Cyprus: “Jennifer Lopez would never knowingly support any state, country, institution or regime that . . . → Read More if you dare: Was JLo Pressured by Israel’s Hasbara Apparatus?
By Jinjirrie, on May 13th, 2012% Organisers of a Sydney Palestine solidarity protest — Commemorate Al-Nakba: Protest Against Israeli Apartheid! — released the statement below on May 12. NSW police initiated a Supreme Court action against the pro-Palestine Al-Nakba commemoration march to be held in Sydney on May 15. The police are seeking a court order prohibiting the public assembly and . . . → Read More if you dare: NSW Police Attempt to Ban Palestinian Human Rights Rally
By Jinjirrie, on May 13th, 2012% BDS Maroc expresses its condemnation of the Moroccan Government sending an official delegation to the International Exhibition of Agriculture to be held in Tel Aviv from the 15th – 17th May. English translation [Google]: To the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries After greeting, initiative followed in my DSL Morocco through the written press and electronic . . . → Read More if you dare: BDS Maroc Protest Against Moroccan Government Delegation to Tel Aviv Agriculture Exhibition
By Jinjirrie, on May 12th, 2012% In the wake of Irish traditional band Dervish’s cancellation of their dates in apartheid Israel, an astonishing campaign of lies and smears has played out in the Irish press- mainly in the Sunday Independent – and has had substantial and deeply worrying contributions from the Irish Minister for Justice and Defence, Alan Shatter. When the . . . → Read More if you dare: Desperate Lies and Smears by Israeli Apartheid Supporters Highlight BDS Strength in Ireland
By Jinjirrie, on May 11th, 2012% Please help raise awareness about a very important Kimberley Process meeting to be held in Washington from June 4-7th. You can email, tweet and phone politicians asking that the Australian representative at this meeting calls for a ban on trade in blood diamonds from Israel that fund war crimes, trade which the Kimberley Process should . . . → Read More if you dare: Campaign Against Israeli Blood Diamonds – Australian Palestinian Solidarity Activists Alert
By Jinjirrie, on May 9th, 2012% Join the rally in Brisbane to commemorate the anniversary of Al Nakba on Friday the 18th of May in King George Square at 5pm – find out about how you can participate with the theme of the rally. Samah Sabawi reviews Phil Monsour’s Ghosts of Deir Yassin album: The video for Ghosts of Deir Yassin . . . → Read More if you dare: “I no longer fear their power … I will return”
By Jinjirrie, on May 3rd, 2012% Omar Hassan: “Activists all across the world are being targeted for their campaign against Israel and I think this is just the latest step in that process. I think it’s because Israel is worried that BDS is delegitimising what is an illegitimate state.” Rachel Sztanski: “We’re not going to be bullied out of protesting . . . → Read More if you dare: The Max Brenner 19 on Trial in Victoria
By Jinjirrie, on May 3rd, 2012% The following op-ed was written by Archbishop-Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, Desmond Tutu and published in the Tampa Bay Times on 1 May 2012.] A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to . . . → Read More if you dare: Israel’s Apartheid is ‘a present-day reality’ : Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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