Today marks 18 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. On this anniversary we acknowledge the many dark days that have cast a shadow over our hearts. This year alone, Palestinians everywhere have faced escalating Israeli massacres, atrocities, siege, pogroms, airstrikes and unmasked genocidal calls.
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On Saturday, June 24, 2023, the #BoycottPUMA Global Day of Action let PUMA know the campaign will only continue to grow until it ends complicity in Israeli apartheid. From Kuala Lumpur to Paris, from Tokyo to Berlin, from Kuwait City to London, actions were held at PUMA shops and retailers, at human rights festivals, football matches and anti-racist football tournaments.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the Palestinian-led BDS movement, urges participating artists to demand Pop-Kultur Berlin festival publicly clarify its current partnership with the embassy of apartheid Israel.
Once again the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has ignored the call from numerous human rights groups and refused to add Israel’s occupation army to the “list of shame” of forces endangering children in “armed conflict”.
In its final report, published in May 2023, PEGA admitted Israel’s crucial role in the development and marketing of cyber weapons, “in some cases [...] designed purposefully to serve as a tool for political power and control”. Yet, it failed to demand accountability from Israel and those European actors that have made the EU today the main host, user and exporter of Israeli spyware.
There’s nothing “friendly” about playing football with teams representing apartheid Israel. As Palestinians living under the violent and deadly brutality of Israeli oppression, we call on Orlando Pirates FC and AFC Bournemouth to cancel “friendly” matches with Maccabi Tel Aviv in Spain, July 13 and 16.
Activists at CAF’s shareholders meeting: Get out of occupied Jerusalem; get off the Apartheid Train!
On Saturday, June 10, 2023, during CAF’s annual shareholders' meeting, the company's image and reputation took a hit. Over a full week of actions, the global #CAFGetOffIsraelsApartheidTrain campaign exposed CAF’s role in Israel's crimes against Palestinians. CAF’s complicity with Israel’s apartheid regime:
Yesterday, gangs of hundreds of armed Israeli settlers, incited by Israel's far-right government, waged pogroms across the occupied Palestinian West Bank. They torched dozens of Palestinian homes, cars, property, and crops. The Israeli military fired on Palestinians trying to protect their homes. In Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, 24-year-old footballer Omar Qatin, a father of two, was defending his neighbors when Israeli forces shot him dead. More than 30 Palestinians were injured.
PUMA is nervous! Last month, PUMA’s CEO said “BDS” by mistake as he was talking about the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI). He did it in front of 200 shareholders at PUMA’s 75th anniversary AGM!
As we approach the 18th birthday of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, we take a look back at some highlights in our struggle for Palestinian rights in the first half of 2023:
The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) are honored to have The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) standing alongside us in the universal struggle for freedom, justice and equality.
The Association of Black Anthropologists hereby endorses the Resolution to Boycott