For almost 20 years, the BDS movement has been leading the call for strategic and impactful grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice, freedom and equality. Since the start of Israel’s livestreamed genocide against our people in Gaza, BDS pressure to end international complicity in its regime of settler-colonial apartheid and illegal occupation has risen exponentially. We all know that Israel is only able to continue its genocide, including daily massacres, burning our children, men and women alive, or starving and thirsting them to death, due to the ongoing complicity of states, companies and institutions around the world.
As we approach the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of most of the Indigenous people of Palestine, your action is needed now more than ever.
Israel just announced its livestreamed genocide against Palestinians is about to get even deadlier, as it prepares for mass ethnic cleansing and total destruction of Gaza.
“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,” is a popular slogan of solidarity around the world. Given the ferocity of Israel’s daily massacres and its criminal impunity, we need to escalate pressure. Corporations and governments are feeling the heat and have cut ties of complicity. BDS works but we need more to force Israel to stop its crimes.
So in your thousands, and in your millions: Rise up and escalate BDS now!
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society that is leading the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, calls for mass global mobilizations and civil disobedience on 15 May. Let’s show complicit governments, institutions and corporations what real people power can do!
TAKE ACTION:
1: Mobilize: Take to the streets, peacefully disrupt the status quo, block highways and public transportation stations, occupy the offices of complicit governments, institutions and corporations (especially military, tech, finance and media).
2: Walkout: If you can, tell your employer, university, school, etc. why and stage mass walkouts at a specified time (even if for a couple of hours). If you cannot, then “call in sick” (sick of the horrible complicity that enables the genocide!) or leave early to join mobilizations.
3: Pressure: Organize collectively to boycott BDS priority targets, organize popular pressure on your elected officials to demand immediate targeted sanctions on Israel, including a military embargo, and on complicit institutions to pressure them to end their involvement in Israel's crimes.