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		<title>Media Release: Free Palestine Melbourne Demands Cancellation of Infected Mushroom Gig</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[9 October 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne has written to Jason Marriner, the CEO of Marriner Group and the owner of The Forum Theatre, requesting that he cancel the performance of nationalist Israeli psytrance musicians Infected Mushroom at The Forum on 3 November 2025. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>JOINT MEDIA RELEASE: Civil society organisations welcome the Future Fund’s exclusion of Elbit Systems, and call on the Federal and Victorian Governments to drop Elbit or risk complicity in serious violations of international law </title>
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					<description><![CDATA[15 March 2022 &#124; For immediate release Civil society organisations working for human rights for Palestinians and others welcome the news of Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund’s&#160;exclusion of Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems Limited&#160;from its investment portfolio because of allegations of its involvement in the production of cluster munitions. The organisations call on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Palestine and BDS FAQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2021 04:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Targeting Israeli Apartheid: a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Handbook – Corporate Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2021 01:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Targeting Israeli Apartheid examines the Israeli economy and details the Israeli and international companies complicit in Israeli state repression. “Targeting Israeli Apartheid is the guide many of us in the movement have been waiting for. This forensic, clear and systematic account details the where, who, how and why of the flows of capital and contracts [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Zealand state pension fund divests from Israeli banks &#124; The Electronic Intifada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand’s $33 billion national pension fund has excluded five Israeli banks from its portfolio because of their role in financing Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/new-zealand-state-pension-fund-divests-israeli-banks]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Palestinian rights and the IHRA definition of antisemitism &#124; Antisemitism &#124; The Guardian</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A group of 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals express their concerns about the IHRA definition https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/nov/29/palestinian-rights-and-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>BDS Australia HP campaign: sign the pledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you know that HP and their spin-off companies supply Israel with the technology, equipment, and&#160;information used to perpetrate human rights violations against Palestinian people? Our friends at @BDSAustralia have put together a pledge that you can sign to the Managing Director of HP to let them know that you will not purchase any HP [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Microsoft sells stake in Israeli facial recognition company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-sells-stake-israeli-facial-recognition-company-n1170781 From the article: &#8220;Holder and his team at the law firm Covington &#38; Burling&#160;conducted an audit of AnyVision starting in October 2019&#160;after NBC News&#160;and other news outlets including Forbes and Israeli business publication TheMarker reported that the facial recognition startup was surveilling Palestinians throughout the West Bank.&#8221; Microsoft needs to be commended for taking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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