Boycott Israel

Israel's parliament has passed the first reading of a bill which will allow the government to impose fines or sanctions on individuals, groups or states which take part in...

Israel has protested to the European Union about plans to consider the accurate labelling of products made in illegal Jewish settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories; such goods are...

The Israeli government has backed the proposal to turn Ariel College into a university. The college is located in an illegal settlement built on occupied Palestinian territory. Supporting the...

An Israeli official from Jerusalem told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Tuesday that "the Netanyahu government is leading Israel towards a disaster". The official spoke on condition of anonymity. He...

The academic boycott of Israel has widened, it has been reported, with an Australian research institute rejecting a proposal on the grounds that it involves Israelis. According to the...

PICTURES Former head of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, accompanied by a large delegation of Muslim scholars arrived in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening...

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...

McDonald's Israel has refused to open a branch in the settlement of Ariel which is built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The company was offered space...

Israel's deputy Foreign Minister, Zeev Elkin, has said that his country and the EU would continue to drift apart if they don't find a compromise solution on the new...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has incurred harsh waves of criticism against his government's policy over the past few months, not only from Europe and the United States, who...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Monday that the conflict with the Palestinians would not end by signing a peace agreement or resolving the issue of borders, Israeli...

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...

A bold ruling by South Africa's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert which called for a boycott of Israel and compared the...

Students and representatives of Palestinian civil society youth organisations have appealed to the Student Council of Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand ("Wits") to adopt a resolution to boycott Israel...

The Tunisian public was surprised to hear the news that its national Taekwondo team would participate in a match against the Israeli national team, which is considered a form...

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...

A nationwide committee in Tunisia has called for the constitution to outlaw any "normalisation" with Israel. The National Committee for Supporting Arab Resistance and Fighting Normalisation and Zionism has...

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 National Council of the American Studies Association (ASA) has voted unanimously to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. ASA's members, which number around five thousand, will have ten...

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...

America's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has called for the resignation of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories,...