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Israel’s Elections: A Vote for Ongoing Genocide and Apartheid Against Palestinians
Israel has voted for genocide and for the ongoing Nakba against Indigenous Palestinians. We call for escalating BDS pressure globally to further isolate Israel’s regime of genocide and settler-colonial apartheid as the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for justice, refugees’ return, reparation, and liberation.
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Palestinian Unions Endorse Dockworker Unions’ Call to Action on October 30th
The Palestinian labor movement endorses the call for a day of struggle on October 30th against militarisation and genocide organised by a collective of dockworkers’ unions and calls on all global port, transport and related unions to join it. We also call on grassroots and civil society organizations that can support this mobilization to do so following the unions’ leadership and context-specific directions.
Economic retaliation against Tel Aviv
This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel’s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal...
Economic retaliation against Tel Aviv
This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel’s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal...
Norwegian Pension Fund divests from Israeli military giant Elbit
The Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund – Global, on the basis of the Council on...
Ken Loach, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover, Alice Walker ... protest TIFF's complicity in Israel re-branding
The Globe and Mail -Wednesday, Sep. 02, 2009 An international group of more than 50 prominent filmmakers, writers, artists and academics –...
Don’t play with apartheid and occupation; Israeli Davis Cup team is not welcomed in Murcia.
Press release by the Solidarity Network against the occupation of Palestine:Don’t play with apartheid and occupation; Israeli Davis Cup team is not...
Naomi Klein Boycotts Life as Normal in Israel
By Cecilie Surasky, AlterNet -- Few global-justice campaigns are more polarizing, even explosive, than the effort to use international boycotts,...
Boycotts don't equal censorship
Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien and Paul Laverty write that film-makers should support the growing international movement to boycott Israel – it's wrong...
Israeli academics must pay price to end occupation
Anat Matar [Haaretz] - Several days ago Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times...
Boycotts as a Legitimate Means of Resistance - As Determined by the Oppressed People
Kim Petersen [Dissident Voice] Prejudice does not always come with an ugly face. The same holds for Zionism and racism. It is entirely possible for...
John Greyson withdraws his film "Greyzone" from Toronto Film Festival following the BDS Call
Filmaker John Greyson has written this principled letter explaining the reasons to withdraw his film "Greyzone" from the Toronto...