BDS

The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) calls on Maryland Secretary of State to withdraw "baseless and unconstitutional" threat to punish Ben & Jerry’s for ending sales in occupied territory.

A group of 160 academics representing 21 countries has urged the European Commission to use its leverage and ban Israeli universities from receiving funds from a European Union (EU) program worth over $100bn.

The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls to close New York-based Zionist groups mobilizing settler- ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.

One hundred and sixty academics from 21 countries demand that the European Union exclude all Israeli academic institutions complicit in the regime’s violation of international law and the rights of Palestinians from the EU’s taxpayer-funded research programs.

American ice cream maker, Ben & Jerry's said it will stop selling its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, calling it "inconsistent with our values."

In his blistering resignation letter to Harvard University, Dr Cornell West, one of America's leading public intellectuals, cited the administration's "anti-Palestinian prejudice" as one of the main reasons for departing after four years of teaching. West is expected to return to Union Theological Seminary, where he first taught 44 years ago.

Protesters are gearing up to target more than 30 Puma stores and officers in Britain tomorrow to demand the sports brand end its sponsorship of the Israeli Football Association.

Some 600 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries have signed a petition condemning Israeli practices and calling for an immediate end to the Israeli apartheid regime in occupied Palestine.

The divestment follows the February 2020 UN publication of a list of 112 companies with activities linked to Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law.

The largest teachers union in the USA condemned the Zionist regime for its "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians and sought to garner support for Palestinian rights among educators in the country.

Three Republican House members are calling on the FBI to investigate dubious connections between the BDS movement and terrorism.

In the latest anti-Israeli measure across US universities, Yale’s student council approved a statement authored by a campus pro-Palestinian group accusing Israel of genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

A Palestinian general strike, supported by the Palestinian trade unions, was observed across the Occupied Territory of Palestine. Palestinian workers organisations called out to trade unions around the world to refuse to handle Israeli goods. Workers in Genoa, Italy, Durban in South Africa and Oakland in the U.S. answered the call.

Moshava, an Israeli food truck based in Philadelphia, was disinvited from a food festival in the city slated for Sunday after threats and complaints about its participation.

As Yvonne Ridley reported this week, Lothian Pension Fund's divestment makes it the third such local authority institution to divest from Bank Hapoalim. Falkirk Pension Fund divested in 2018 in response to pressures from activists and trade unions; in early 2019 Tayside Pension Fund followed suit.

Pro-Palestinian activists have taken over an aerospace factory in the northwestern British town of Runcorn, which reportedly supplies parts for drones produced by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.

Dockworkers in the US Port of Oakland have refused to unload an Israeli cargo ship as part of an international boycott campaign against Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.

In an unprecedented wave of solidarity, more than 300 academic departments, programs, centers, unions, and societies worldwide have endorsed statements in support of Palestinian rights in response to Israel's violent attacks on Palestinians this month.

564 people put their names to letter urging their government to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

Protestors were waving the Palestinian flag with a placard reading, 'Stop doing what Hitler did to you', while a poster held by a woman read, 'Israel, the new Nazi state'. 

Dockworkers in the South African port city of Durban have refused to offload cargo from an Israeli ship in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, and in protest at Tel Aviv’s military aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.

As Israel continues to bombard Gaza, direct-action protest group, Palestine Action, has seized control of one of the buildings belonging to Israel's most advanced weapons manufacture, Elbit Systems.

The Zionist regime’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to “apartheid”, said the international anti-Israel movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).

Pomona College’s student government has unanimously voted in favor of a resolution to ban student government funds from companies that support Israel.