The ‘S’ in the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Call

The BDS National Committee website describes BDS as, ‘[t]he global movement for a campaign of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)…

Tension is brewing between Israel and Finland over the Finnish World Village Festival’s decision to boycott the Jewish National Fund.The…

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced that he will resign his position and that his political party will not…

Israel’s representative was conspicuously missing when the UN Human Rights Council started a special session, on Monday, regarding the situation…

Following a recent call for a boycott of Israeli products, several residents of Nablus took things a bit further on…

A historic victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was achieved Friday in the referendum on the academic…

Benyamin Mileikowsky (aka Netanyahu) was born to Benzion Mileikowsky (later changed names to Netanyahu), a polish immigrant.His American father became…

In the latest show of support for the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a group of 700 British artists,…

The Palestinian Authority had been publicly supportive only of a boycott of settlement products, such that this week’s decision represents…

Hundreds of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, on Monday, participated in protests organized by the Fateh movement, calling for…

Israel decided, this Thursday, to boycott the international Geneva conference scheduled for December 17th, and will also reconsider its relationship…

For the past two months, Palestinians across the West Bank have been boycotting Israeli goods by increasing numbers, as popular…

Major Israeli food exporters are facing an unprecedented wave of cancelations in orders from Europe as a result of Israel’s…

As the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip continues to leave nearly 2,000 Palestinians dead and over 7,000 injured, there…

In the 2014 African Literature Association (ALA) meeting in Johannesburg, the ALA approved a resolution supporting the academic boycott of…

During Ramadhan, Israel exports tonnes of dates into Europe and North America. Israelis profit to the tune of hundreds of…

Ma’an reports that actor Danny Glover and a number of others featured in a US documentary about a prominent social…

Richard Falk called, on Friday, for worldwide solidarity with the Palestinian struggle through boycott and divestment from companies profitng from…

In the wake of the American Studies Association’s December 2013 endorsement of the Palestinian civil society call for an academic…

The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has made a call to the international community to boycott products…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa released a statement, Wednesday, expressing concern about legislation pending in the state of Maryland…

In a letter sent to EU Foreign Policy Chief, Catherine Ashton, 29 members of the European Parliament have called upon…

The Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects has voted to call on the International Union Of Architects to…

Catherine Ashton, Foreign Policy Chief of the European Union, stated Monday that she opposes boycotting Israel, yet, affirmed the EU…

Israeli opposition parties in the Knesset announced, Sunday, that they will not be taking part in discussions and will vote…

Palestinian Legislator Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi welcomed the decision of the YMCA and YWCA, in Norway, to join the international BDS…

The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Rima Khalaf, is urging both Egypt…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday, denounced the Israeli prime minister’s campaign of intimidation against companies and organizations which…

More than 120 Irish academics have signed a pledge to boycott Israeli institutions until Palestinian rights are respected, Academics for…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with three of his top ministers to discuss ways to deal with the threat…

Israeli government and business leaders are alarmed by a growing international boycott movement and the likely effect of EU measures…

Israel’s Hayom newspaper reported, on Monday, that 134 out of 435 members of Congress have signed a letter criticizing the…

Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid has become the latest senior official to warn about the serious impact of growing boycott,…

Just released by the American Studies Association: The members of the American Studies Association have endorsed the Association’s participation in…

The American Studies Association leadership announced, Wednesday, that its National Council has unanimously approved a resolution submitted by the Academic…

In a letter comparing the state of Israel to South Africa under apartheid, long-time rock musician Roger Waters of Pink…

United Nations Special Rapporteur on humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, called for boycotting all firms that benefit from…

Following around six hours of deliberation, the United Church of Canada (UCC), the largest Protestant denomination in the country, voted…

Governments within the European Union (EU) have received a report issued by a prominent jurist in the UK stating that…

Independent Jewish Voices-Canada (IJV) today issued a response endorsing the recommendations of the United Church of Canada’s Working Group on…

Monday June 4, 2012, The Flaming Eggplant Cafe a student-run cafe at The Evergreen State College in Olympia announced it…

The Palestinian Contractors Union has urged all Palestinian contractors and suppliers to boycott any bids offered by the UN Children’s…

One of the largest food retailers in the UK has announced that it will boycott four Israeli produce companies which…

A Washington State court has dismissed a lawsuit brought against current and former members of the Olympia Food Co-op board…

Palestinian Minister of Detainees in the West Bank, Issa Qaraqe’, called for the boycotting of all Israeli military courts for…

A French transportation company, Veolia, that has been the target of a campaign by human rights groups around the world…

The Palestinian branch of the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel held its third annual conference…

In a European Day of Action under the banner ‘Take Apartheid off the Menu’, human rights activists in ten countries…

The French bank, BNP Paribas, has decided to cease operations inside Israel, after the bank was targeted by the international…

The Arab League called on Wednesday for instating a comprehensive and serious popular and official boycott of Israel due to…

A coalition of Israeli peace groups have announced that they plan to file a petition with Israel’s High Court challenging…

Both soft and hard line US Israeli supporters have come out against the new Israeli Boycott Law that came into…

Israeli opposition politicians and civil society have come out against new legislation passed Monday in the Knesset that outlaws the…

The Israeli Knesset is Monday set to vote on a bill that will make illegal the boycott of Israeli goods,…

The Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee has approved an extended edition of a boycott bill which will prohibit the…

Olivia Zemor a French national has been summoned to appear before the Paris tribunal for publishing a video on the…

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, stated Friday that he has resigned his position as an Honorary Patron of the…

After a 2-year long campaign that involved bi-weekly protests, consumer education and petitions challenging the Ahava company’s illegal theft of…

Dr. Mohammad Al Ahmad, the Dean of Student Affairs in Bir Zeit University, near the central West bank city of…

One of South Africa’s most prominent universities has announced that it will cut all financial and academic ties with Israel’s…

The student association of Edinburgh University in Scotland voted overwhelmingly Thursday night to support a boycott of Israeli goods and…

Around twenty Jewish organizations, and a number of prominent Jewish individuals, including several Holocaust survivors, have signed on to a…

The former lead singer of the rock band Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, is the latest artist to voice support for…

The legendary 82-year old folk singer Pete Seeger, an icon of the folk movement of the 1950s and 60s, told…

Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists have urged international artists who are slated to perform in the International Red…

The day after the American pop star Macy Gray announced controversial plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March, we…

Four activist groups in the US are calling on a tear gas manufacturer to stop providing its products to the…

On Sunday, 155 academics joined the boycott of the ‘Ariel University Center of Samaria’, located in the illegal West Bank…

Forty-eight Knesset members have signed a petition calling for the boycott of Israeli companies involved in building the new Palestinian…

(Image below) Bashar Masri shows US Consul General in Jerusalem Daniel Rubinstein (left) and USTDA Director Leocadia Zak (second from…

Israel announced it will boycott a 2011 UN summit commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Durban declaration against racism, the…

A group of Princeton University students proposed a boycott of the Sabra hummus brand for its donations to the Israeli…

After the theater figures who are boycotting the Ariel center sent a letter to Be’er Sheva Theater actors, encouraging their…

The worldwide campaign to boycott Israel to pressure the country to end its apartheid system has claimed a small victory,…

In the midst of a worldwide boycott campaign urging tourists to refuse to visit Israel until Israeli authorities adhere to…

Islamist students at an-Najah University, in the city of Nablus, have announced that they will boycott the Student Council election…

On Wednesday, the Anglican Archbishop called to cancel the opera ‘Porgy and Bess’ that the Cape Town Opera Company was…

After several nations announced that they will likely boycott this month’s planned bi-annual tourism conference of the Organization for Economic…

Britain’s trade union federation voted on Tuesday to continue its boycott of Israeli goods and services from West Bank settlements.The…

In a move that could cost them their jobs, 150 professors, researchers and other academic professionals decided this week to…

Dozens of prominent artists in the Israeli theatre community – including actors, playwrights and directors — have signed a pledge…

Around 200 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals – including a group of hip-hop musicians from the US and Britain – joined…

After similar boycott actions in Oakland, California, Norway and South Africa, dockworkers in Sweden have decided to block the import…

Responding to requests from the Palestinian Workers Union and other unions and organizations around the world, the Norwegian Ports Union…

Israeli settlers groups called on the Israeli government to stop proximity talks with the Palestinians due to the settlements products…

The Professional Associations Complex in Jordan is holding a campaign to ensure that the Jordanian markets do not carry any…

Several popular movements, civil society institutions and women organizations in the 1948 areas are preparing to officially declare the launch…

Leaders of the settler movement in the occupied West Bank demanded the Israeli government to withhold all funds meant for…

Israel has threatened to prevent any goods into its ports, and to withhold transferring tax money to the Palestinian Authority…

The Israeli Army electronics company “Elbit systems” has been barred by the Första AP-Fonden pension fund, the biggest pensions fund…

The ‘Stolen Beauty’ campaign has declared a small victory, after Costco stores agreed to stop carrying Dead Sea Salt from…

Deputy-head of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, Jibril Rajoub, stated that the movement and its presidents, Mahmoud Abbas, were…

13 members of the Greek Orthodox church in Palestine will boycott the Patriarch over accusations of leasing land to an…

39 fundamentalist members of Knesset signed a petition calling for boycotting goods and services from the United Kingdom as a…

As part of the international Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) movement, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK has implemented a week-long boycott…

Israel has extended the detention of a West Bank peace activist, who Palestinians claim is being imprisoned solely for his…

Pointing to Israel's "failure to meet its international obligations to the Palestinian people", the Speaker of the Assembly of the…

The University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union and professional for professors and lecturers in the United Kingdom,…

A group of 100 famous academics, authors, actors and public figures of the Jewish population in The United Kingdom signed…