BDS

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) urged, in a press release issued Friday, members of Congress not to cosponsor or vote for H. R. 2748 / S. 1061, the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021.

An Israeli-owned weapons factory in the north-west is being sold following a sustained campaign of action by Palestine supporters.

More than 20 international performers have pulled out of the 2022 Sydney Festival over what they say the “artwashing” of the Israeli apartheid and oppression of the Palestinian people, reports have said.

The escalating boycott of Sydney Festival over a grant from the Israeli embassy has disrupted more than 20 shows and events, including cancellations, withdrawals from the program and cast changes.

A group of NGOs have criticised the Olympic Council Malaysia for its "hurried" response after its secretary-general Mohammad Nazifuddin Najib raised concern that Malaysia may not be able to host the international future sporting competition for banning Israeli athletes.

Palestinian BDS National Committee declared on Tuesday its support for the Palestinian administrative captives inside Zionist regime’s jails, a statement said.

The student council of the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School has officially endorsed the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and has called on the university to sever ties with Israeli academics and institutions.

The United Nations is urging local government pension schemes (LGPS) to divest from companies linked to illegal Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The University of London was threatened with legal action after one of its student unions voted overwhelmingly to support a boycott of Israeli companies, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Palestine supporters in Manchester demonstrated outside a meeting of pension fund managers day, calling on trustees to withdraw investments from firms complicit in Israel’s suppression of Palestinians.

The founder of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), Omar Al-Barghouti, sent a letter to the world, (Raialyoum). The letter stated that "Enforcement of international punitive measures against the Israeli colonial, settler, military, occupying and apartheid regime, like the measures that were enforced against the apartheid regime in South Africa, became an urgent need."

In a significant challenge to Israel lobby efforts, a major Canadian academic association has rejected a definition of anti-Semitism that conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.