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Jewish Voice for Peace quoted in Boston Globe article about BDS Movement
Support builds for boycotts against Israel, activists say By Farah Stockman Globe Staff / August 22, 2010
Jewish Voice for Peace praised in Salon.com
Friday, Aug 6, 2010 08:30 ET
Jewish leaders need to speak out!
Ask Jewish leaders to speak out: Denounce Israel's Increasing Repression!
Let Us Join Those Who Refuse
Rebecca Vilkomerson, JVP's Executive Director, comments on the TIAA-CREF campaign in the Huffington Post.
JVP joins human rights organizations in letter to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urging freedom for Ameer Makhoul
Read the full leter here.
Jewish Voice for Peace and interfaith allies speak out against Christians United for Israel['s Occupation]
Jewish Voice for Peace member Shelley Fudge takes part in an interfaith press conference organized by CodePink.
JVP in must-read Forward article about Caterpillar
Caterpillar Caught in Web Of Middle East PoliticsBy Larry Cohler-Esses and Josh Nathan-Kazis
Jewish Voice for Peace Statement Regarding the Olympia Food Co-Op Boycott of Israeli Goods
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) condemns the attacks against the recent decision by the Olympia Food Co-Op to boycott Israeli goods.
Divestment movement breakthrough
Read the account of what happened at the Jul 20 meeting with the TIAA-CREF leadership.
The Tablet: Divestment Campaign Targets Settlements
Group petitions TIAA-CREF at board meeting By Mark Bergen | Jul 21, 2010
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Muzzlewatch

Tracking efforts to stifle debate on Israeli-Palestinian policy.
Ali Abunimah “exposed” as smooth sophisticate by bigots
StandWithUs again attempts to take someone down, in this case Palestinian American author Ali Abunimah.
How to be a Muzzler.
The sad case of Iman Rauf is bringing the practice of muzzling to a much wider audience.
New Israel Fund, itself a victim, considers (and rejects) some muzzling of its own. UPDATE: the muzzlers fail.
I don’t have a lot to add to Richard Silverstein’s sobering post on the New Israel Fund’s proposal to denying grants to groups that do not recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
“Anti-Zionists” scare volunteer soldier
I subscribe to the American Jewish Committee’s newsletter, and it’s an itneresting window into their psychology.
The BDS Movement: Now with Plasma TV’s.
Sue Fisckoff writes in the JTA about the off season preparations of Team Israel, aka Hillel, the Jewish student organization.
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The Only Democracy?

Reports on the struggle for human rights in Israel and Palestine
Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements (+BIG UPDATE)
Some cultural news from Israel: Several of Israel’s leading theater companies have agreed to perform in the new cultural center in the settlement of Ariel, due to open on November 8.
For Gaza tailors, market is flooded, external markets are (still) banned and 96% of their jobs are lost.
From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway What happens to industry when you open a market to consumer products but restrict raw materials and ban export?
Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Cleared of Stone-Throwing; Convicted of Incitement
From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee.
Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge and the subversion of US Middle East policy
Reposted from Didi Remez’s Coteret blog.
Nation of Misguided Teenagers
by Eitan Isaacson, crossposted at his Monotonous.
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