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Mahmoud Nawajaa is free
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#FreeMahmoud: Mahmoud Nawajaa is FREE!

Thanks to sustained international pressure, Palestinian human rights defender and BDS coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa was released after being held without charge by Israel for 19 days. 

Right To Boycott
August 17, 2020
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
In the News

Tens of Arab Leaders call for sanctions on Israel to counter apartheid and illegal annexation

Former Prime Ministers, Ministers and diplomats; prominent cultural and civil society figures - call for “a broad range of effective sanctions” to counter Israeli apartheid and illegal annexation

Sanctions and governments
August 12, 2020
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Lakhdar Brahimi Initiiative
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Leading artists condemn Israeli raids on Palestinian cultural centres and call for sanctions

As response to Israeli raids, 60+ musicians, artists, writers and filmmakers say Britain should support Palestinians' call for targeted and lawful sanctions

Cultural Boycott
Military Embargo
Sanctions and governments
August 12, 2020
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Artists for Palestine UK
In the News

University of Manchester divests nearly £2m from companies complicit in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people

Following campaigns, university divests from Booking.com, Caterpillar, CEMEX and many more complicit companies

Economic Boycott
Student solidarity
August 6, 2020
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK
Italian Regional and City Councils Call for Sanctions Against Israel’s Annexation Plans and Violations of International Law
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Italian Regional and City Councils Call for Sanctions Against Israel’s Annexation Plans and Violations of International Law

The Emilia Romagna Regional Council and the Turin City Council respond to the call from more than 70 Palestinian civil society organizations for effective countermeasures to stop Israel’s illegal annexation of the occupied West Bank and its grave human rights violations.

Local governments
Sanctions and governments
August 5, 2020
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BDS Italy
Luton Town kicks out Israeli occupation sponsor Puma
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Luton Town kicks out Israeli occupation sponsor Puma

Following engagement with local Palestinian rights supporters over Puma's support for illegal Israeli settlements, UK Championship League club Luton Town FC drops Puma.

Ban Apartheid Israel from Sports
Boycott Puma
July 29, 2020
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Electronic Intifada
In the News

Biggest Dutch Pension Fund ABP Divests from Israeli Banks

ABP, the biggest pension fund in the Netherlands and among the five biggest in the world, announced in June that it would divest from the Israeli banks Leumi and Hapoalim.

Economic Boycott
July 22, 2020
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BDS NL
Psychologists for Social Responsibility votes by over 80% to endorse BDS
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Psychologists for Social Responsibility Votes by Over 80% To Endorse BDS

We, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions BDS movement to support equality and justice for Palestinians.

Academic Boycott
July 15, 2020
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Psychologists for Social Responsibility
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US Unitarian Universalist Assembly decides to invest in accord with human rights

The socially responsible investing policy of the Unitarian Universalist Assembly, with 1000+ member congregations in the US, places "the human rights of Palestinians squarely among the human rights that all human beings share"

Economic Boycott
July 8, 2020
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Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East
American Studies Associatioon
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Israel lobby loses latest appeal against American Studies Association

An incessant Israel lobby-backed attempt to censor and punish the American Studies Association over its support of an

Academic Boycott
Right To Boycott
July 6, 2020
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Electronic Intifada