Palestinian boycott coordinator: "The movement has a huge impact"

 Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 14 June 2010

Hind Awwad (Adri Nieuwhof)

Hind Awwad, national coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), recently toured Europe to support the growing worldwide campaign. The movement aims to end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the discrimination against Palestinian citizens in Israel, and calls for respect for the rights of Palestine refugees. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviewed Hind Awwad in Bern, Switzerland.

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Ten years of BDS in the USA

BDS in the USA, 2001-2010

Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University.

Jews for Justice for Palestinians

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Introduction by Joel Beinen of Jewish Voice for Peace

The latest issue of Middle East Report includes this perceptive article by Noura Erakat surveying the history of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the United States over the past decade, with a focus on the University of California at Berkeley, where she was an undergraduate student and political activist.

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Evergreen State students overwhelmingly pass divestment votes

Press release, TESC Divest, 8 June 2010 [Electronic Intifada]

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The following release was issued on 2 June 2010 by TESC Divest:

On 2 June 2010, students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, made history by passing two resolutions supporting human rights, upholding international law, and promoting a just peace in the Palestine/Israel conflict.

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