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 1052
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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 916
Read MoreBDS Australia HP campaign: sign the pledge
Did you know that HP and their spin-off companies supply Israel with the technology, equipment, and 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 […]
Read MoreMicrosoft sells stake in Israeli facial recognition company
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-sells-stake-israeli-facial-recognition-company-n1170781 From the article: “Holder and his team at the law firm Covington & Burling conducted an audit of AnyVision starting in October 2019 after NBC News and other news outlets including Forbes and Israeli business publication TheMarker reported that the facial recognition startup was surveilling Palestinians throughout the West Bank.” Microsoft needs to be commended for taking […]
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