Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against Israeli apartheid has a long history and deep...

As Israel moves closer to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, solidarity in the Global South has been gaining momentum. On 2 July Chile’s Telephone Tower was...

No civil society group in the United States has undergone as much censorious repression as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement — better known simply as BDS — and...

The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights...

Palestinians in Gaza are driving to boycott Israeli goods

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) today ruled that the conviction in France of activists who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was a breach of...

Israel will become an apartheid state if it moves ahead with the planned annexation of the West Bank, warned Benjamin Pogrund, an ally of Nelson Mandela, who for decades had...

“I believe very strongly in unity,” said Tanzania’s founding President Julius Nyerere. “Sometimes, I am accused of supporting unity for its own sake but I believe unity is an...

Over the past week, two brutal events added more sadness to the morbid climate of the coronavirus pandemic. In Minneapolis, a black American citizen was killed by a police...

Local government pension schemes hold direct investments worth more than £2.3 billion in companies involved in Israeli war crimes and apartheid, it was revealed this week. The Palestine Solidarity...

The regional government of Valencia has cancelled a teacher training course on human rights that was to be delivered by a Spanish Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group following...

Over 150 well-known personalities from the Arab world have called for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails and political prisoners from jails in Arab states, citing the...

US lawmakers in Missouri have banned the State from doing business with companies that boycott Israel in one of the first bills passed by the Republican led House as...

Germany’s anti-Semitism czar has sparked an international backlash following its attempt to disinvite world renowned philosopher Achille Mbembe from delivering the opening speech at the Ruhrtriennale Festival. The Cameroonian...

The British government has suffered a major defeat in its attempt to curb the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in a long running legal battle with the...

The family of Egypt’s BDS coordinator Ramy Shaath have condemned the ruling of an Egyptian criminal court to add him to the country’s “terrorism list” as “unjust.” The decision...

Harvard University is being urged to divest from companies complicit in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to a report in student paper the Crimson. The...

The terms “century” and “one hundred years”, often interchangeable, shared a strange coincidence on 28 January, when the eminent Palestinian-American academic Professor Rashid Khalidi published his latest book, The...

A Brown University committee has issued a formal recommendation that the Ivy League university divest from “any company that profits from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land”. According to...

Palestinian-Canadian journalist Khaled Barakat has been barred from entering Germany for four years over concerns his Palestinian advocacy is anti-Semitic. Barakat has been denied a renewal of his residency...

A four-year-long Israeli culinary propaganda drive has apparently come to an end, according to the Palestinian-led BDS Movement, in a statement “celebrat the impact of the four-year BDS campaign...

Last month, the world was treated to a spectacle by the impeached and the indicted, proudly basking in the glow of what was supposed to be a coming together...

The Palestinian-led boycott movement has slammed a motion passed by the Austrian parliament that singles out the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign for criticism. “Instead of fighting real...

Israeli opposition parliamentarian Yoaz Hendel assailed the United Nations-mandated list of companies complicit in West Bank settlements at an international conference in Vienna, describing the database as an “ethical...

The popular charitable online giving platform GoFundMe has closed down the account of Palestinian advocacy organisation Al-Awda without providing any reason. Based in the US, Al-Awda is a non-profit...

The entire western world is facing an almost unprecedented assault on freedom of speech – and Palestine is the issue at hand. In the United States over the last...

The Republican governor of South Dakota signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting state offices from conducting business with companies boycotting Israel. The recent move made by Republican, Kristi...

American singer Lionel Richie announced in a video message released last week that he is excited for his first performance in Israel on March 2 as part of his...

A veteran pro-Israel lobbyist in Westminster believes the recently-elected Conservative government represents an important opportunity to advance Israel’s interests amongst British decision-makers. Lord Polak, a Tory peer, and president...

There are growing concerns over the “weaponization of anti-Semitism” following the firing of a Jewish teacher by an elite New York City prep school for expressing remarks critical of...

This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the Palestinian leadership, two factors contributed to making 2019 particularly eventful and, looking...

Britain’s newly elected Conservative government has confirmed it will proceed with banning “institutions across the public sector” including local councils from boycotting Israel, as promised in the party’s election...