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Major BDS Impact: Dana Petroleum pulls out of Israeli consortium formed to illegally extract Palestinian gas resources

“Genocidal Israel’s isolation is intensifying” is the BDS movement’s reaction as now both initial international partners, Eni and Dana, have withdrawn from the consortium. The Palestinian-led global movement now calls for immediate pressure on Murphy Offshore Oil, a US based fringe player in the energy market apparently replacing them.

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The Military Embargo is Here

Palestinian civil society has called for a military embargo against apartheid Israel since the founding of the BDS movement, and more explicitly since 2011. Ending military ties with Israel is not only a moral obligation. A comprehensive military embargo against a State guilty of illegal military occupation, apartheid and “plausible genocide” is not a matter of discretion but a legal obligation under international law. Failing to impose it puts multilateralism and the rule of international law in danger, at a critical time when the far-right is rising in the West and just with the fanatic US administration coming to power, exacerbating the damage caused to the credibility of international law by the current administration’s full partnership in Israel’s genocide.