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.

The head of the National Association of the Moroccan Press, Abdullah Al-Bakali, announced his rejection of the visit by a delegation of Moroccan journalists to Israel, considering that "paying the Zionist entity for the travel and accommodation expenses is an insult and humiliation."

Palestinian Authority's Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh praised the Belgian government's decision to label products manufactured in Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

Hundreds of pro-Palestine activists marched outside the Miss South Africa organization’s offices in Johannesburg and handed over a memorandum demanding Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane to cancel her participation in the Miss Universe 2021 pageant in Eilat, Israel, scheduled for December.

More than 100 celebrities, including musicians, actors, and authors have signed an open letter criticizing Israel's decision to designate six prominent Palestinian Human Rights groups as terrorist organizations.

Student group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine held a rally in the Yard Monday afternoon calling on Harvard to divest its endowment from any companies with ties to Israel's presence in Palestine.

Supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement are calling on Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, to not compete in the 2021 Miss Universe pageant, being held in the Palestinian occupied territories as they called Israel an "apartheid state."

Pro-Palestinians attempt to block speakers from entering conference room, wave Palestinian flags and photos of supposed victims of fighting with Israel while shouting 'free Palestine'.

A Texas-based Palestinian-American engineering firm has filed a lawsuit challenging a legislation that bars the state from doing business with companies participating in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against apartheid Israel.

The question is whether universities like Glasgow will continue to submit to attacks on academic life under the cover of false or evidence-free claims of anti-semitism.

The two tech giants are not just lining up to do business with Israel. They are actively working to build and improve the technological infrastructure Israel needs to surveil Palestinians and confine them to the ghettos Israel’s army has created for them.

Amazon, Google workers: Israeli crimes against Palestinians to get ‘deadlier’ after contract with tech giants

A world-renowned Irish author has refused to authorize an Israeli publisher to translate her work into Hebrew, owing to her stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Zionist regime’s diplomats reportedly put pressure on the dean of a US university to have a teacher critical of the occupation state removed using allegations of anti-Semitism.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement welcomed in a statement the British Labor Party’s motion passed yesterday that declared Israel as an apartheid state due to its treatment of Palestinians.

A survey that tracks the opinions of Middle East scholars based in the United States has stated that nearly 2/3 of U.S.-based Middle East scholars say Zionist regime is practicing apartheid, while 57% said a two-state solution was impossible.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has called on governments, companies and artists to boycott Dubai Expo 2020, which it says aims to "whitewash and distract attention from" Israel's "grave human rights violations."

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is urging supporters from around the world to join nearly 60,000 people calling on the sports company, PUMA, to end its support for Israeli apartheid.

A resolution condemning Zionist regime’s brutal military regime and "apartheid" has been passed by a local branch of America's second largest teaching union, the American Federation of Teachers.

If passed, the non-binding resolution would be the first of its kind passed in a U.S. city or town

Britain's Labour Party has become embroiled in another feud with its pro-Palestine members following reports that former leader Jeremy Corbyn and pressure group the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) have been banned from speaking later this month at the annual party conference.

More than 200 distinguished African figures have objected to the African Union (AU) Commission’s decision to grant Israel observer status, asking the continental body to reverse the measure.

Leicestershire Police told The New Arab a report came in at 4:20am on Tuesday claiming demonstrators had chained themselves to gates belonging to a building in the Meridian Business Park in Leicester.

ADRONE factory in Leicester was shut down after three Palestine Action activists chained themselves to the gates to block access to the site.

US protestors blocked the entrance to Raytheon’s facility in Portsmouth in protest of weapon sales to Israel.

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.