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Bowing to BDS pressure: G4S to divest completely from apartheid Israel

In a major win for human rights activism against corporate complicity, the world's largest private security company Allied Universal, which owns G4S, has decided to sell all its remaining business in apartheid Israel. This follows years of an effective #StopG4S campaign waged by the BDS movement for Palestinian rights.

Stop G4S
Economic Boycott
Trade union solidarity
June 1, 2023
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
BNC Statement

Verviers (Belgium) cuts ties with apartheid Israel

Verviers joins Liége (Belgium), Oslo (Norway), Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and Belém (Brazil) in ending complicity in Israel’s grave human rights violations.

Apartheid Free Zones
Local governments
Sanctions and governments
May 31, 2023
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
BNC Statement

Mayor of Belém declares city #ApartheidFreeZone

The mayor of Belém (Brazil), Edmilson Rodrigues, declares his city an Apartheid Free Zone, denouncing Isael’s “expulsion of a people from their ance

Apartheid Free Zones
Local governments
Sanctions and governments
May 16, 2023
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
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Sam Smith Cancels Concert in Apartheid Israel Following Campaign

The Brit and Grammy award-winning artist canceled their performance in the Summer in the City festival in Tel Aviv, following multiple calls not to perform in apartheid Israel. 

Cultural Boycott
Say No to Pinkwashing
May 5, 2023
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
BNC Statement

Liège votes to end all ties with Israel

The Belgian of Liège votes to end all ties with Israel citing its regime of “apartheid, colonization and  military occupation” against Palestinians

Economic Boycott
Local governments
Trade union solidarity
Sanctions and governments
April 25, 2023
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
In the News

Balkan Trafik ends partnership with apartheid Israel

The festival’s decision is a significant BDS victory in Belgium

Cultural Boycott
April 8, 2023
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Association belgo-palestinienne
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Racist Rabinovich Foundation will reportedly end loyalty oaths

BREAKING: Racist Israeli film fund, the Rabinovich Foundation, will reportedly end its insistence that filmmakers seeking its support must sign a loyalty oath to deny in their films the reality of

Cultural Boycott
March 8, 2023
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
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Scholar Sophie Grace Chappell Withdraws From Ethics Conference in Apartheid Israel

As Palestinians, we salute scholar Sophie Grace Chappell for her principled

Academic Boycott
March 8, 2023
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
BNC Statement

Mayor of Barcelona suspends all institutional ties with Israel

Barcelona Mayor suspends institutional relations with apartheid Israel, including twinning agreement with Tel Aviv, “until the Israeli authorities put an end to the system of viola

Local governments
Sanctions and governments
February 8, 2023
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
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Palestinians Welcome South African Rugby Union’s Decision To Rescind Invitation a Team Representing Apartheid Israel

We thank the many South Africans, including those who campaigned against that country’s apartheid regime, for standing up for Palestinian rights and taking swift action to compel SARU to reverse the misguided decision.

Red Card Israel
February 3, 2023
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Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)