PROJECTS & CAMPAIGNS

Rising Tide of BDS At UC Davis Almost Wins

This week, University of California Davis student Senate voted on a targeted divestment resolution. The vote was 5 for the resolution, 5 against, with 2 senators abstaining. Though the resolution did not pass, the UC Davis Divestment Campaign was successful in shifting the debate on campus away from the terms set by the opposition, and the fact that the student senate vote resulted in a tie is indicative of the growing momentum and support behind the BDS Movement on campuses. IJAN organizers attended the UC Davis Finance and Business subcommittee hearing earlier in the week (where the resolution did pass)., and it was clear that the room was largely in support of divestment.

Invitation from the New Unions in Palestine

Stop the Wall extended an invitation from the Palestinian New Unions for a coalition of labor organizers from the United States to visit Palestine. The New Unions is a newly formed independent federation of trade unions that formed during a 6-month strike in Tulkarem, in the West Bank of Palestine, when workers in the illegal ...

New Study Highlights Spanish and Catalonian Complicity with Israel

In Catalonia researchers are releasing an important new study today in honor of the Nakba. “DEFENCE, SECURITY AND OCCUPATION AS A BUSINNESS. Military, armaments and security trade relations between Spain and Israel,” released by Alejandro Pozo and his team, is a follow up to a 2009 report looking at the military and homeland security links ...