At least 28 different actions took place across the UK from 1st to 7th July 2017 calling for an immediate two-way arms embargo against Israel. Activists closed down factories and two branches of HSBC bank, held public meetings, took action online and distributed 1000’s of information flyers. Check out this round up put together by […]
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French appeal to AXA: Stop investment in Elbit Systems and Israeli banks!
70 french organizations, associations, parties and unions have published a call to AXA to respect international law and cut ties with Israel’s colonial and apartheid policy. Through its subsidiary, AB, AXA maintains investments in Elbit Systems, a major Israeli weapons manufacturer accused of providing the illegal white phosphorus containing shells used by the Israeli army […]
Please check out BDSmovement.net in Arabic
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is excited to announce the full launch of our new bi-lingual BDSmovement.net website. We launched a version of the site last year and we’re delighted that the site is now fully online in both Arabic and English. Our new What is BDS? page explains our movement, its key demands and central […]
From Palestine To India: We Have A Common Future Of Solidarity
Nostalgia has no space in realpolitik. However, in the case of Modi’s visit to Israel – billed as a milestone by both governments – we remember India’s legacy of solidarity and support for the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality and wonder which path India is taking now. For us Palestinians as well as […]
200+ Latin American Orgs Urge Mexican Multinational Cemex To End Complicity In Israeli Crimes
Over 200 Latin American organizations, coalitions, social movements and personalities published a July 9 letter addressed to the Board of Directors of Cemex, the Mexican multinational company, calling on it to end the company’s complicity in Israel’s human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. July 13, 2017, Occupied Palestine — More than 200 Latin American organizations, […]
Khirbet Tana – a silenced struggle against expulsion
Khirbet Tana has been under Israeli attack for long in the attempt to expel the Palestinian population from their lands and colonise the areas with settlements. Challenging Israeli home demolition, residents have taken to reform and inhabit caves and are leading an inspiring struggle for dignity and rights. Representatives from the Land Defense Coalition spent […]
New impulse for the #StopElbit campaign from France
As every year, BDS France protested Elbit System’s presence at France’s biggest military exhibition. The action took place by the Elbit Systems stall on Saturday 24, June, during the Paris Air Show. Elbit Systems is one of the main profiteers from Israel’s apartheid Wall and wars against the Palestinian people and exports this expertise around […]
Sumud Freedom Camp – our steadfastness continues
With the passing of World Refugee Day on June 20th, we remember the Palestinian refugees both within the occupied territories and those dispersed around the world. At the same time resistance against the ongoing Nakba – the destruction of our homes and villages to dispossess and exile us – continues. The Sumoud Freedom Camp in […]
November 9 – Global Day of Action: A World without Walls
From Israel’s apartheid Wall on Palestinian land to the US Wall of Shame on indigenous land at the border with Mexico – Walls are monuments of expulsion, exclusion, oppression, discrimination and exploitation. As people affected by these walls and as movements that pose justice, freedom and equality as our tools to resolve the problems of this […]
#dignitystrike: Strike suspended after 41 days
After 41 days, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs and Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) put out a joint statement that ‘Freedom and Dignity’ hunger strike has been suspended after more than 20 hours of negotiations. Palestinians have taken to the streets celebrating and singing in disbelief. It is still un-clear what the hunger strikers and […]