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BNC Statement

Palestinian civil society calls on Dutch government to respect its obligations under international law by excluding relations with Israeli companies involved in settlements

- Dutch government must consistently exclude all Israeli and other companies involved in Israel’s settlements from Israel-Netherlands business forum
- Governments across the world should take steps to end corporate complicity with Israeli violations of international law

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society unions, parties and organisations, calls on the Dutch government to be consistent with its stated position opposing the Israeli occupation and illegal sett

December 4, 2013
By: 
Palestinian BDS National Committee
In the News

Dutch firm withdraws from sewage plant for settlers in East Jerusalem

The Netherlands-based engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV has announced that it has decided to withdraw from a sewage treatment project in eastern occupied Jerusalem.

The firm reviewed its involvement in designing the plant after the Dutch government discouraged it from aiding Israeli settlements and Palestinian organizations fiercely criticized the project.

September 6, 2013
By: 
Adri Niuewhof atElectronic Intifada
In the News

Dutch government urges local firm to cancel East Jerusalem project

Note: Royal HaskoningDHV announced that it would not participate in the settlement sewage project in September 2013.

The Dutch government has asked the country’s largest engineering company to rethink its participation in a project with the Jerusalem municipality because the project is based on the Palestinian side of the 1967 border.

August 26, 2013
In the News

Netherlands: Retailers ban goods from settlements

Dutch media reports 2 of country's largest retail chains announce they will not sell more products originating beyond Green Line

Following the European Union announcement regarding official guidelines prohibiting the funding of Israeli bodies and actions beyond the Green Line, it was reported Monday in the Netherlands that at least two large retail chains in the country have stopped selling goods produced in Isra

Farming Injustice
July 23, 2013
By: 
Ynet
Analysis

Why do charities want to "normalize" Israeli apartheid?

Oxfam acknowledges Israel’s settlements are illegal but doesn’t call for ban on their products.

(Magne Hagesæter / Flickr)

July 10, 2013
By: 
Jeff Handmaker at Electronic Intifada
In the News

Prisoners day marked with global actions against G4S as Scottish union congress endorses campaign

Scottish Trade unions stand in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners and supports campaign to boycott G4S (Scottish PSC)

As 3,000 Palestinian political prisoners refused meals and demonstrations were held across Palestine to mark Palestinian prisoners day on Wednesday, international acti

Stop G4S
April 19, 2013
By: 
Michael Deas at Electronic Intifada
BNC Statement

Netherlands becomes latest country to act against trade with illegal Israeli settlements

The Dutch government has announced that it will introduce new guidance calling on retailers to label fresh produce from illegal Israeli settlements in a way that distinguishes it from products originating inside Israel.

Farming Injustice
March 9, 2013
By: 
Palestinian BDS National Committee
In the News

Photo report: Mobilisations in Palestine and Europe for boycott of Israeli agricultural companies

On February 9, Palestinian farmers organisations and campaigners in Europe weekend took action to call for an end to trade with Israeli agricultural export companies over their role in the destruction of Palestinian agriculture (press release here).

Palestinian farmers face the brunt of Israel’s land confiscations, demolitions and water theft.

Farming Injustice
February 14, 2013
By: 
BNC
In the News

European anti-arms trade network endorses international call for Israel arms embargo

Seven years after the ruling by the International Court of Justice that the wall (the so-called "separation barrier ") between Israel and the Palestinian Territories was an illegal construction, European anti-arms trade groups have endorsed international calls for an arms embargo on Israel.

In support of the call of the Palestini

Military Embargo
July 12, 2011
By: 
European Network Against the Arms Trade
BNC Statement

BNC welcomes cancellation of visit by settlement mayors to Netherlands

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, warmly salutes the decision taken by the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), in consultation with the Dutch Foreign Ministry, to cancel a visit by Israeli mayors due to the fact that six members of the proposed delegation are leaders of illegal Jewish-only Israeli colonial settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory.1

There are now over 150 settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, incl

Local governments
September 23, 2010
By: 
BNC Secretariat