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No More Isolation after London Gaza demonstration
In January 2009, there was a solidarity demonstration in London regarding the Israeli bombardment of Gaza from 27th December 2008 until 18th January 2009. At the demo, many people were arrested, the majority being young Asians below the age of 19, some as young as 12. The police used indiscriminate baton charges, kettles and heavy surveillance. Their repressive tactics began to take a less visible form in the months following, with numerous dawn raids, denial of communication with solicitors and physical and psychological abuse. Almost all have now been charged with “violent disorder” and so far, 10 people have been jailed for 15 months to 3 years. In this climate of intimidation and isolation, and in spite of flimsy evidence, 50 people have pled guilty and the sentencing began on 12th February at Isleworth Crown Court. (more…)
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Interviews With Radical Palestinian Women: Order your copy
The idea for this book – published with Active Distribution – came out of a concern that solidarity movements have a tendency only to engage with Palestinians about their fight against the Israeli occupation. Sometimes this can be a barrier to seeing them as comrades in our intersecting struggles for […]
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Caterpillar: a company profile
Caterpillar is headquartered in the United States and employs 100,000 people. The company’s profits skyrocketed by 700% in 2019 to $6.15 billion. This company profile summarises: • Injuries and deaths caused by Caterpillar bulldozers• Caterpillar’s dealerships in both Israel and the UK• Resistance against the company so far• Legal action […]
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Caterpillar’s complicity in Israeli war crimes: 2019 statistics
2019 statistics at a glance • Caterpillar military bulldozers were used in all of the 14 punitive demolitions carried out by the Israeli military, demolishing 11 homes and 3 water systems. • The Israeli military carried out 61 Israeli incursions into the Gaza strip. Caterpillar bulldozers are the equipment of […]
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Apartheid in the Fields: From Occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets (2020 Update), Endnotes
Here are the references for our 2020 update to Apartheid in the Fields P3. Introduction https://mondoweiss.net/2019/11/un-publishes-database-ofcompanies-profiting-off-human-rights-abuses-not-on-israel-but-myanmar/ P4. The ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Jordan Valley https://btselem.org/jordan_valley See, for example, https://corporateoccupation.org/2010/08/11/the-jordan-valley-meeting-point-the-jewish-national-funds-racist-alternative-reality/ https://m.btselem.org/jordan_valley http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/reports/al-jazeera-how-israel-engages-in-water-apartheid/ http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/reports/al-jazeera-how-israel-engages-in-water-apartheid/ http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/news/tractors-and-water-tanks-confiscated-in-al-maleh/ http://jordanvalleysolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/jv%20map%20tony.jpg https://www.btselem.org/jordan_valley https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jordan-palestine-refugee-camps-photography-a8341826.html https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Nahal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalya Corporate Occupation has interviewed multiple Jordan Valley residents who were forced […]
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Apartheid in the Fields: From Occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets (2020 Update), Part 7.8: Asda
Asda has made several statements denying that it stocks goods fromthe West Bank since ITN’s 2007 report on settlement goods in UK supermarkets. However, in 2009 Asda made several ambiguous statements contradicting its earlier stance. A spokesperson from the company wrote: “I am sure you can imagine it is very […]
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Apartheid in the Fields: From Occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets (2020 Update), Part 7.6: M&S
M&S has faced protest due to its historical ideological support for the Israeli state, and because of its continued policy of stocking Israeli goods. Until 2008 M&S openly sold products from illegal Israeli settlements. The Guardian reported in 2004 that the company stocked an extensive range of settlement products. Since […]
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Apartheid in the Fields: From Occupied Palestine to UK Supermarkets (2020 Update), Part 7.4, Aldi
In 2009, Aldi was caught out selling grapefruit from Israeli company Carmel Agrexco, labelled as a product of Cyprus.[1] The scam led to the German supermarket publicly admitting it had misled European consumers. This may well have been a deliberate attempt to evade popular boycotts of Israeli goods in the […]