Updates from the palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
The decision to establish this anti-BDS task force was made by Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan and Interior Minister Arye Dery.
Israeli ministers and official spokespeople have explicitly mentioned Barghouti’s human rights activities in the BDS movement as the motive behind the anti-democratic travel ban.
Support for BDS has not only continued to grow - it has accelerated.
Ten years of siege, two years since the 2014 Israeli massacre - it’s high time for accountability and for a two-way military embargo on Israel!
The Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly have both made powerful decisions advancing solidarity with Palestinian rights under international law within faith communities in the U.S.
G4S is a British security company that helps Israel run checkpoints, a police training centre and prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are held. In response to international pressure, G4S has announced that it may sell its Israeli operations. However, G4S has a track record of breaking such pledges so the Stop G4S campaign continues.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is calling on Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar to withdraw his film "Julieta" from the Jerusalem Film Festival, which is sponsored by the Israeli government.