BDS

There have been urgent calls from the Palestinian community in New Zealand for filmmakers and the public to boycott the film festival until it refuses the support of the Israeli Embassy.

New City Councilwoman, Inna Vernikov, will be withdrawing $50,000 in funding for the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School due to the faculty's support of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution, New York Post reported.

Forty-nine staff members at Harvard University have signed an open letter endorsing the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement and student efforts to oppose Israeli apartheid.

Forty-nine staff members at Harvard University have signed an open letter endorsing the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement and student efforts to oppose Israeli apartheid.

Two activists blockaded an Israeli arms firm’s London HQ today to protest against the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

In further indication of the growing support for Palestine in campuses across the world, Melbourne University Students' Union (UMSU) recently passed a resolution -10 to 6- endorsing the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

Harvard University's student-run daily newspaper has announced its support for and endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Israeli occupation, making it one of the most significant steps by an American university against the occupation.

British activists from the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action shut down the London headquarters of an Israeli-owned arms firm for the third time in two weeks.

NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine accused Israel of being an “apartheid regime” and said the violence by a presumed Palestinian gunman was “a direct result of the Israeli occupation.”

Egypt's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has strongly condemned hosting an Israeli music festival at Egyptian army-owned facilities in the Sinai Peninsula, The New Arab news website reported on Friday.

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Ohio State University has passed an emergency resolution calling on the University to divest from two companies that contribute to human rights violations against the Palestinian people by providing technology and tools to the Israeli military.

Sixty per cent of academics and scholars in Middle Eastern studies across several American universities have described Israel's occupation of Palestine as "a one state reality akin to apartheid," a new survey shows.

The teach-in was co-hosted by the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) and Students for Prison Education, Abolition and Reform (SPEAR) and focused on the Caterpillar machinery referendum that students will begin voting on this week. 

Members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee hold signs and banners during a protest against the Israeli Block Party event in Austin on Tuesday. Protesters gathered near the McCombs School of Business across the street on Speedway from the Israeli Block Party event.

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has voted in favour of a resolution condemning Israel for its 'systematic violations' against Palestinians and calling for boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israeli institutions.

The historical campaign to end Israel's occupation of Palestine is nearing its "South Africa moment", according to Omar Barghouti.

Duke University’s Student Government voted on March 16 to give over $16,000 to an upcoming event featuring a speaker who is a staunch critic of Israel and Zionism.

B’nai Brith Canada urges McGill University in Montreal to withdraw funding from Students’ Society after it votes to adopt “Palestine Solidarity Policy”.

Civil society activists from 21 countries across Africa have pledged to intensify the fight against Israel’s apartheid practices against the Palestinian people.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has commended the graduate and undergraduate students at the Washington-based Georgetown University who successfully prevented $30,000 in student funding from being used for a propaganda trip to apartheid Israel.

BDS movement says South Africa should not be playing a tie this weekend in Ashdod, a Palestinian town ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948.

Trade with settlements in Occupied Territories contributes to human rights abuses and must be banned, as part of a European Citizen's Initiative (ECI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated.

A petition calling for an EU ban on imports from illegal settlements, including Israeli ones in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, has met with accusations of trying to promote the destruction of Israel, on day one of the campaign.

Palestine supporters have damaged the offices of a property firm that manages premises for an Israeli-owned arms manufacturer in Britain.