BDS

A Palestinian-led campaign has called for a boycott of German sportswear company Puma over its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA), reports Anadolu Agency.

PUMA continues to sponsor the Israel Football Association (IFA). Tens of thousands of people have already petitioned PUMA demanding that the company ends this sponsorship deal with the IFA.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee, (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition, warmly welcomed Amnesty International’s report condemning Israel’s apartheid regime.

An anti-Zionist student group at the University of Chicago called on students last week to boycott courses about Israel and Israeli academic fellows.

A UK-based Palestinian academic at Sheffield Hallam University has been reinstated in her teaching post, one week after she was suspended following a smear campaign by supporters of Israel.

Palestinian American filed the lawsuit after city of Houston required his company to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel.

The festival, which wraps up on Sunday, has endured weeks of negative publicity and withdrawals by dozens of acts including comedians Judith Lucy and Nazeem Hussain as well as TV personality Yumi Stynes and Indigenous theatre troupe Marrugeku.

State agencies would be barred from doing business with any company or contractor unless they vow not to boycott Israel under a bill approved by the Georgia General Assembly.

In a victory for political freedom, a German federal court ruled that Munich’s refusal of a public venue for a debate on the city’s anti-BDS resolution was unconstitutional.

The Israeli government said it will increase funding to counter the BDS movement in light of what it alleges was 'increasing anti-semitism'.

Dozens have signed an open letter endorsing the boycott of the 2022 Sydney Festival over a sponsorship deal with the Zionist regime, after several artists and performers did the same in protest against the “art-washing” of Israeli apartheid.

A bill making its way through the state Senate would prohibit New York State from contracting with corporations boycotting Israel.

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.