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Analysis

The BDS movement explained

In many media reports on the recent panel held at Brooklyn College on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, BDS was subjected to relentless vilification and unfounded allegations.

This was yet another ruthless campaign to demonize and shut down all criticism of Israel.

March 8, 2013
By: 
Omar Barghouti NY Daily News
In the News

Demonstration at against Israeli basketball team visit to Basque country

Maccabi Buesa Arenan

Despite huge restrictions and unprecedented security measures imposed by the Basque Government, Palestine solidarity was felt in the stands as Israeli basketball team Tel Aviv took on Baskonia in Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country in the Spanish state.

A huge mobilisation supported by Baskonia fans, social movements and the Bildu political party turned the stands into a huge display of solidarity with the Pale

February 28, 2013
By: 
BNC
In the News

BDS roundup: Future professionals demand TIAA-CREF divest from Israel’s rights violations

  • Future clients of pension fund giant TIAA-CREF call for divestment from companies profitting from Israel’s occupation;
  • Shuggie Otis cancels Tel Aviv performance while activists call on Alicia Keys and Depeche Mode do the same;
  • Queen Mary, University of London students union votes to boycott G4S and Veolia;
  • Veolia’s bid for street cleaning contract is withdrawn in Liverpool;
  • London solidarity protest with Hebron includes BDS de-shelving action;
  • Palestinian organizations call for boycott of Israeli diamonds;
  • Palestinian BDS Na
Stop G4S
February 27, 2013
By: 
Nora Barrows-Friedman at
In the News

EU consuls recommend imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements

The European Union’s consuls general in East Jerusalem and Ramallah are recommending economic sanctions against settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Among the recommendations made in the nonbinding Heads of Mission report for 2012, which has been obtained by Haaretz, is to “prevent, discourage and raise awareness about problematic implications of financial transactions including foreign direct investments, from within the EU in support of settlement activities, infrastructure and services.”

Seven of the report’s 10 recommendations deal with imposing direct or indirect sanctions b

Farming Injustice
February 27, 2013
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haaretz.com
BNC Statement

New Balance and InterContinental Hotel Group: drop sponsorship of Jerusalem apartheid marathon or face international boycotts

Occupied Palestine, 25 February 2013 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a broad coalition of the largest Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions, refugee associations and NGO networks, calls on sports merchandize company New Balance and the InterContinental Hotel Group to immediately withdraw sponsorship from the Jerusalem marathon taking place on 1 March 2013.

February 26, 2013
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
BNC Statement

BDS Movement Position on Boycott of Individuals

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian unions, mass organisations, refugee networks and NGOs that leads and and sets the guidelines for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, supports all principled action in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality that is in line with universal human rights and international law.

In its 2005 BDS Call, Palestinian civil society has called for a boycott of Israel, its complicit institutions, international corporations that sustain its occupation, colonization and apartheid,

February 21, 2013
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
BNC Statement

Posición de la Campaña BDS sobre el boicot a individuos

El Comité Nacional Palestino de BDS (BNC) –la mayor coalición palestina de sindicatos, organizaciones populares, redes de refugiados y ONG– que dirige y establece las directrices de la Campaña de Boicot, Desinversión y Sanciones (BDS), respalda toda iniciativa de solidaridad con la lucha palestina por la libertad, la justicia y la igualdad, que esté en consonancia con los derechos humanos universales y el derecho internacional. En su “Llamamiento al BDS” de 2005, la sociedad civil palestina reclamó un boicot a Israel, a sus instituciones cómplices y a las empresas internacionales que sostienen su ocupación, colonización y apartheid.

Boicot académico
Boicot cultural
February 21, 2013
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Palestinian BDS National Committee
Analysis

How the JCRC inspired New York officials to fight BDS

When New York public officials criticized Brooklyn College for hosting a BDS event with Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti, their claimed interest in the matter was that the college was a public, taxpayer-funded institution and that, at best, the event was “one-sided” and needed “balance.” Yet this wasn’t the first time New York officials had mobilized against BDS.

February 18, 2013
By: 
Phan Nguyen at Mondoweiss
BNC Statement

Palestinian civil society welcomes the findings and recommendations of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Israeli settlements

Occupied Palestine, 15 February 2013 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a broad coalition of the largest Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions and NGO networks, supports the outcomes of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements[1] that calls for boycotts and sanctions as measures required to end the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.

Farming Injustice
February 15, 2013
By: 
BNC
Analysis

Brooklyn College battle reveals hidden agenda of “liberal Zionism”

As soon as it was clear that the pro-Israel forces opposed to the forum on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) held at Brooklyn College on 7 February had badly overreached, and that their crude invective and histrionic behavior was alienating broad sectors of mainstream intelligentsia, liberal Zionist writers and activists injected what seemed like a much more sensible narrative into the debate.

Presenting themselves as progress

February 12, 2013
By: 
Max Blumenthal at Electronic Intifada