We are a group of philosophy professors in North America, Latin America, and Europe writing to publicly and unequivocally express our solidarity with the Palestinian people and to denounce the ongoing and rapidly escalating massacre being committed in Gaza by Israel and with the full financial, material, and ideological support of our own governments.
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Israel’s live-streamed genocide, armed, funded and enabled by the US and colonial European powers, is unprecedented in history. It has banned the entry of life-sustaining food, water, fuel and medical supplies to 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, causing starvation and the spread of diseases. In parallel, it has indiscriminately bombed Gaza, deliberately destroying hospitals, universities, schools, UN shelters, bakeries, solar panels, residential neighborhoods, telecommunications facilities, as well as water and sewage treatment infrastructure.
As Israel’s decades-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid continues to escalate its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, a new wave of solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading globally. Many people are learning for the first time about the historic 2005 Palestinian civil society call to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel until it complies with international law. In this guide, we lay out the movement’s basics, best practices, and some helpful tips and ideas for strategic BDS campaigning.
McDonald’s franchisee in Malaysia, owned by the Saudi company, Lionhorn Pte Ltd, has filed a SLAPP or “shock-and-awe” lawsuit against BDS Malaysia, a solidarity group advocating justice and equality for Palestinians, accusing it of “defamation” and seeking damages of over $1 million.
The Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Committee (PAACC), comprising the Anti-Apartheid Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the BDS Movement, the Palestinian Human Rights Organization Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), salutes South Africa for its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza.
The US, with the complicity of Arab dictatorships and European satellite states, has once again imposed its will on the UN Security Council, preventing a permanent ceasefire and an end to Israel’s deadly siege of Gaza.
Israel has demanded that 1.1 million Palestinians evacuate the northern half of Gaza, whilst subjecting them to constant bombardment. This ruthless move is part of Israel's plan, backed by unwavering support and active participation from the US and majority of European states, to carry out unprecedented and heinous massacres against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to ethnically cleanse it altogether. Since Saturday Israel has indiscriminately and intensively bombarded Gaza, and cut off fuel, electricity, water, food, and medical supplies.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, salutes the Malaysian government for its inspiring decision to ban vessels from the deeply complicit Israeli shipping company, ZIM, as well as any other vessel flying the Israeli flag or headed for Israeli ports, from docking at Malaysian ports.
Never was the urgency greater to stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide by ending all military relations with it as well as all complicity in its war crimes and crimes against humanity, including apartheid. Military ties with Israel include the sale, transit or purchase of weapons and military-security technology, including spyware; training; joint research and development projects; provision of equipment and services to Israel’s military; and more.
In the midst of Israel’s US and European enabled genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinians, especially Al Jazeera's Palestine crew and other Palestinian media workers, recently bade farewell to the talented Al Jazeera photographer, Samer Wael Abu Daqqa, who was killed in a deliberate Israeli airstrike in Gaza last Friday.