BDS

Moroccan human rights organisations and associations have demanded the dismissal of the Israeli company, "G4S", from Morocco stating that they intend to call on representative institutions and official bodies...

Senior Fatah member Marwan Barghouti has called on the movement's head, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, not to resume negotiations with the Israelis. Barghouti said that the results would...

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said he does not want to live in a "racist state which controls millions of Palestinians through oppression and racism but...

South Africa's Ambassador to Israel, Ismail Coovadia, has rejected a 'gift' from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The 'gift' came in the form of a certificate [click to...

Jordan's National Anti-Normalisation Committee (NANC), which lobbies against normalising relations with Israel, has condemned Jordanian merchants who import Israeli products into the Kingdom. The Committee asked the Jordanian government...

On Friday the Israeli foreign ministry asked Dutch ambassador Caspar Veldkamp for "clarification" on the Dutch pension manager PGGM's decision to divest in Israeli banks that have branches in...

The South African Ambassador to Palestine Professor M W Makalima has visited the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday where the two discussed issues...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the European Union's opposition to Israel building or expanding settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. He is said to be...

The government of Morocco has announced that it will not invite Israeli scientists to attend a scientific conference in Fez, local newspapers said on Friday. The news was confirmed...

Human rights groups, trade unions and several other major civil society organisations have called for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to exclude Israel. The international diamond regulatory body is...

Brooklyn College in New York is going ahead with a conference highlighting the importance of an academic and economic boycott of Israel despite intense pressure from US Jewish organisations...

More than 100 American professors and teaching staff at Columbia University have called for five American companies to withdraw their investment in Israeli jails over "breaches of human rights...

Canada's largest Protestant church, the United Church of Canada, has decided to boycott three Israeli companies as part of its campaign against products manufactured in illegal settlements in the...

VIDEOBelow is a statement from the 'Students Against Israeli Apartheid': On 4th June, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington D.C.'s Woodrow Wilson Centre to offer a so-called...

The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) has ratified a proposal to impose an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. Israeli newspaper Maariv said that the union, which has 14,000...

British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has backed an academic boycott of Israel as he announcing he would not attend a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the...

A number of well-known and renowned figures and institutes have announced their boycott of Israeli president Shimon Peres's conference scheduled to be held in Jerusalem next month. This boycott...

The authorities in Holland have refused to prosecute a Dutch construction company which supplied construction equipment to Israeli companies for use in building the so-called "Separation Barrier" in the...

Haaretz newspaper has reported that the European Union has given into US pressure and postponed a decision to label settlement products, in order to distinguish them from other Israeli...

The European Union yesterday denied reports by Israeli media outlets regarding the postponement of its decision to label Israeli settlement products. A statement was made by the EU delegation...

Three major supermarkets in the Netherlands have announced their boycott of Israeli settlement products, following the European Union announcement of its own plan to boycott such items. Dutch newspaper...

Israeli officials have expressed their anger at the EU move against any dealings with settlements in the West Bank because they are built on Palestinian, not Israeli, land. EU...

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is considering a boycott of the EU Research and Development Horizon 2020 programme. The move is being seen as a possible response to Europe's...

In the wake of the EU decision to boycott Israel's settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli scientists and research institutes have warned that cutting academic ties with the...

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has claimed that several European countries have warned their businessmen against trading with companies based in or producing goods on Israeli settlements. The newspaper said...

The Dutch government has asked local firms not to deal with Israeli companies working in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories because this violates international law. Israel fears...

A group of 15 former EU officials sent a letter on Sunday to EU foreign policy chief Katharine Ashton and to the foreign ministers of the 28 EU member...

Diplomats have warned of the growing boycott of Israel and accused the European Union of creating an atmosphere which encourages and gives legitimacy to NGOs not to cooperate with...

Israeli officials and diplomats have threatened to "cut ties with the EU" should the latter impose a boycott on Israel. They said that the first step would be to...

Eight years ago this week, a coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations issued the global call for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in response to...

Last April, the Zionist Organization of America and the student group Owls for Israel invited Israeli Colonel Bentzi Gruber to speak at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Gruber was traveling...

Many Western activists are sceptical of the role of religion in Palestine solidarity. Beyond the problem of Islamophobia, which is sadly manifest across the political spectrum, activist views of...