Search Results for 'boycotts'
UK struggles to win support for European maritime force in Gulf
The Guardian and Telegraph report that Iran has indicated its willingness to release a UK-flagged oil tanker it seized in return for the release...
US passes new sanctions bill against Hamas
The US House of Representatives yesterday voted in favour of a resolution that calls for sanctions on Hamas and other...
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Luxembourg PM boycotts Israeli event over minister’s conversion therapy remarks, Times of Israel Israeli town to reopen park to public...
Arab League tells Germany to cancel anti-boycott action
The Arab League yesterday demanded that the German parliament cancel a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement...
Israeli Supreme Court delays deportation of human rights activist
Israel’s Supreme Court yesterday delayed the deportation of Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) Israel director. Shakir, a US citizen,...
British arms to Saudi Arabia contributing to “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”, court told
The BBC, Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Economist and the Times report that following a tight election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Khashoggi children given homes and cash by Saudi Government
In the Financial Times, Gideon Rachman asks: “Why the new nationalists love Israel”. A trip to Jerusalem, he argues, has...
My report on 130 cases of Labour antisemitism shows the importance of Gordon Brown’s unequivocal stand
Originally published in The Independent As a teenager working in the Formica factory in North Shields in the late 1970s,...
UN says 250,000 Syrian refugees could return home next year
The Guardian reports that Nick Cave has called cultural boycotts of Israel “cowardly and shameful”. He received criticism after playing...
US sanctions are fuelling power struggle in Iran
BICOM CEO James Sorene was interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning to discuss the British Quakers decision to...