Campaign: BDS
BDS Guide to Strategic Campaigning for Palestinian Rights
As Israel’s decades-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid continues to escalate its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, a new wave of solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading globally. Many people are learning for the first time about the historic 2005 Palestinian civil society call to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel until it complies with international law. In this guide, we lay out the movement’s basics, best practices, and some helpful tips and ideas for strategic BDS campaigning.
Escalate BDS pressure against these major Israeli companies that made the 1948 Nakba possible
On the 78th Anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian-led BDS movement calls for escalating BDS pressure particularly against Israeli companies that predated the Nakba, were crucial pillars in establishing Israel’s settler-colonial regime, and remain complicit in its atrocity crimes today.
Historic ruling: ICJ finds Israel guilty of apartheid against Palestinians and its military occupation and annexation of Palestinian Territory as illegal
Occupied Palestine, 19 July 2024 – The International Court of Justice (ICJ), having confirmed the plausibility of Israel’s genocide against 2.3...
The BDS movement calls for intensifying isolation of genocidal Israel in response to its latest horrific massacre against the people of Lebanon
From Palestine to Lebanon, we stand together against Israel’s genocide, apartheid and endless wars of aggression.
Human Rights for Some: Human Rights Watch blocks the release of a report that condemned Israel’s denial of the UN-stipulated right of return of Palestinian refugees as a “crime against humanity.”
The BDS movement condemns HRW’s latest expression of anti-Palestinian racism and reminds the world that the right of return for refugees everywhere is an inalienable right. Indigenous Palestinians will never give up that right–a core principle of the BDS Call of 2005.
A global wave of resistance to the US empire must begin with ending Israel’s genocide
Building a global wave of resistance to US imperial designs is now an existential need for humanity, to save us all from the abyss of utter lawlessness, immense suffering, and possibly a nuclear war
Zohran Mamdani scraps anti-BDS order
While the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza continues, new year brings a fresh start for Palestinian rights.
UN Security Council shamefully votes to endorse illegal and colonial Trump-Netanyahu plan for Gaza
Let’s escalate BDS pressure to further isolate apartheid Israel and stop the genocide.
BDS@20: Resilience, Resistance, and Regeneration
Remarks from Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, on BDS's 20th anniversary at the BDS@20 US Convening.
Boycott ZARA: Dressing Up Apartheid and Genocide
The BDS movement officially endorses the grassroots, organic campaign to boycott ZARA. We call on people of conscience around the world to boycott ZARA, the flagship brand of the Spanish multinational Inditex, for its deep and growing complicity in Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide.