BDS

Private security firm G4S is to divest completely from Israel, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement reported yesterday in an announcement billed as a "major win for human rights...

The Belgian city of Verviers has cut ties with the Israeli apartheid regime to "strengthen its support for the Palestinian people," the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) reported yesterday. According...

The mayor of the Brazilian port city of Belem, Edmilson Rodrigues, has declared his city an Apartheid Free Zone, denouncing Israel's "expulsion of a people from their ancestral territory, a true apartheid",...

British Secretary of State, Michael Gove, is due to push forward the UK Government's long-anticipated plan to ban the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to prevent further boycotts...

A succession of events starting in Barcelona, Spain, in February, and followed in Liège, Belgium, and Oslo, Norway, in April sent a strong message to Israel: The Palestinian Boycott,...

A seminar held in the UK Parliament on Wednesday warned of the dangers of the UK Government's impending anti-boycott legislation particularly in facing Israeli apartheid policies. The seminar, organised...

The Norwegian capital, Oslo has announced a ban on importing goods and services of companies that contribute directly or indirectly to the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories,...

Credit rating agency, Moody's, downgraded Israel's economic outlook from positive on Friday, citing the "deterioration of Israel's governance". The move comes despite efforts by Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, and...

Qatari anti-normalisation activists have condemned allowing Israeli female players to participate in the World Judo Championships that are scheduled to be held in the Qatari capital next month. In...

Foreign investors are fleeing Israel over concerns that it is drifting towards dictatorship, the President and Co-Founder of the Israel Institute for Innovation, Leo Bakman, has told the Haaretz...

Pro-Israel lobby group, Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), is the biggest donor of free overseas trips for UK lawmakers to the Apartheid State, an investigation by Open Democracy has...

More than half of American university students support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an official survey conducted by Israeli Foreign Ministry released on Monday has found. The survey, Israel's Ynet...

The European Union's energy deals with Israel violate the block's own policies and obligations under international law, according to the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). The committee is the...

Several American, English and French singers have pulled out of Berlin's Pop Kultur Festival due to the event's partnership with the city's Cultural Department of the Embassy of Israel....

Students at Melbourne University passed a motion yesterday in favour of endorsing the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The Student Union at the university (UMSU) passed the...

In a victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, a US judge has thrown out bogus anti-Semitism claims against a professor at Pittsburgh university in...

Some 38 far-left French MPs have signed a draft resolution condemning Israel's "institutionalisation of an apartheid regime against Palestinian people," news agencies reported on Friday. The draft resolution was originally...

On 9 July 2005 171 Palestinian civil society groups adopted a call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel for its violations of international law

A group of anti-apartheid organisations, led by Friends of Al-Aqsa, today submitted a petition to Downing Street urging the prime minister to scrap the anti-BDS Bill and instead protect the right to boycott in the UK.

This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the "interregnum"; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new...

In a "frightening" assault on free speech, US citizens in the state of Arkansas will be required to pledge not to boycott Israel in any contract with the government. Overturning an earlier ruling that any such contract violates...

New City Councilwoman, Inna Vernikov, will be withdrawing $50,000 in funding for the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School due to the faculty's support of a Boycott,...

British Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said the non-violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to end Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories was "racist" and "anti-Semitic". "Holding the Jewish...

Pro-Israel groups and lawmakers are orchestrating a politically motivated smear campaign against the recently elected President of the National Union of Students (NUS), Shaima Dallali. As part of this...

Harvard University's student-run daily newspaper has announced its support for and endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Israeli occupation, making it one of the...

Students at Princeton University voted on a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)  referendum last week against Caterpillar for its complicity in Israeli occupation and the mass demolition of Palestinian...

It was Putin's recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent breakaway regions in Eastern Ukraine that paved the way for an all-out Russian invasion of a sovereign Ukraine. Since...

Legislation used to crack down on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has become the template for efforts to suppress climate change activism, gun control advocacy and...

The historical campaign to end Israel's occupation of Palestine is nearing its "South Africa moment", according to Omar Barghouti. The Palestinian activist spoke about the campaign he co-founded in...

Thousands of academics who are members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) have voted to endorse a boycott of Israel. The resolution "endorses the Palestinian call for solidarity...

As part of the build-up to the International Day of Action taking place this Wednesday, 25 prominent academics have signed an open letter to universities worldwide to #Divest4Palestine. The...

Civil society activists from 21 countries across Africa have pledged to intensify the fight against Israel's apartheid practices against Palestinian, isolate Israel in the same way that apartheid South...