Timeline: International attempts to boycott BDS

On 9 July 2005 171 Palestinian civil society groups adopted a call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel for its violations of international law. The BDS movement calls for Israel to fully withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories dismantle the illegal Separation Wall in the West Bank provide full legal and political equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel and recognise the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they were forced out of in 1948