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.

Exhibit in Dubai features three Israeli artists featuring a theme of the "concept of water."

Activists sprayed computers in red paint, broke windows, chained themselves to the premises and stuck banners across the buildings.

Revelations that foreign affairs officials have approved the sale of military equipment to a host of human-rights-abusing countries, including Israel, is an outrage.

Three preeminent European academic institutions have ended agreements with Ariel University over its direct involvement in Israel’s violations of international law, according to a press release.

We write as Jewish faculty from across Canadian universities and colleges with deep concern regarding recent interventions on our campuses relating to Israel and Palestine. Addressing all forms of racism and discrimination, including antisemitism, is imperative at this historical moment. Among the target signatories, many share family histories profoundly and intimately shaped by the Holocaust. We write out of a strong commitment to justice, which for some of us is vital to an ethical Jewish ...

The Zionist regmie's export of weapons to the United States and South Africa – and a proposed law to stop this and other trades – was discussed at this year’s Israeli Apartheid Week.

An Israeli-owned weapons manufacturer was blockaded by protestors who smeared blood red paint on its walls and chained the gates of the six-storey building in Oldham.

In a rare move in US politics, a candidate for governor of Virginia has expressed his strong support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement - a pro-Palestine campaign promoting the boycott of Israel.

Over 60 organizations took part in the Gaza event, organized by The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine, a broad network including many BDS groups.

A professor of sociology has criticized the influence of the Zionist regime at Carleton University in Canada.

The plant, owned by Israeli firm Elbit Systems UK, has been repeatedly targeted by activists who claim the factory is involved in the supply of parts for drones used by the Israeli military against Palestinians.

Students at University of Illinois at Chicago are calling for the university’s School of Public Health (SPH) to cut all ties with Israeli academic institutions. A petition drafted and circulated online by UIC’s Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP) has gathered over 200 signatures in under 48 hours.

The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement on Friday slammed Bahrain's recognition of settlement goods as "war crimes", Quds Press reported.

A number of Arab authors are boycotting the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in protest against Abu Dhabi's decision to normalise ties with Israel.

"The administration of US President Donald Trump is trying to discredit the movement," the BDS movement announced in a press release.

The US will brand the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

More than a hundred years after the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian businessmen and affected citizens intend to file a lawsuit against the UK government.

LPHR lawyers complaint the machinery built by UK construction company JCB was used in the demolition of Palestinian homes and construction of illegal Zionist settlements.  

Palestine solidarity activists protest once again outside the UK headquarters of the Zionist regime’s arms firm Elbit.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Columbia University pass pro-BDS resolutions against Israel apartheid

Facebook has reportedly been deactivating the accounts of Palestinians in coordination with the Israeli government and security agencies

Global Response to Israeli apartheid: A call to the UNGA from Palestinian and international Civil Society Organizations

Activists used red paint to cover the ramp the Israeli football team’s bus was due to take before its match against Glasgow

Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists on streets of Brussels rally in support of Palestine