BDS: 7 Jordanian Companies End Contracts with G4S

Jordan BDS, today, announced that seven private and public companies have discontinued their service contracts with G4S, the security company. …

(photo: Alternative Information Center) Last week, the Doctors’ Syndicate in Beirut decided to end its relationship with G4S, one of…

“Breaking a shackle of Palestinian prisoners”. The United Nations Children’s Fund in Lebanon ends its contracts with occupation profiteer G4S.…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Jordan has dropped its contracts with the world’s largest security firm, occupation profiteer G4S,…

Human rights campaigners to intensify pressure against the company…   G4S announces sale of most of its Israel business, following…

The city of Berkeley, California, has adopted a resolution to divest from private prison firms, including G4S, a provider of…

via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Protesters in New York City rallied outside the Manhattan office of British-Danish security…

via bdsmovement.net The Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS) in Kuwait has decided, as reported in the Kuwaiti media, to…

via the Alternative Information Center “G4S shares plunge after Orlando killer is named as employee” Omar Mateen, who killed 50…

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Jordan has not renewed its contract with security company G4S, following…

Following concerted BDS campaigns, G4S to exit the Israeli market and Ahava to relocate from the West Bank to inside…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Jordan has ended its contract with G4S following a campaign by BDS activists…

The British Labour Party will no longer be doing business with G4S.The National Executive Committee of the party voted 12-4…

Excerpts from an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, by Kali Rubaii for Friends of Sabeel—North America:In early…

A group of Palestine supporters occupied the office of the prison and security contracting firm in Portland Oregon on Thursday…

Amid concerns raised by church justice advocates, United Methodist Church Pensions sells all stocks in G4S, a supplier of security…

G4S’ involvement in the detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails dominated the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday…

MAY 15, 2021: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  A huge crowd gathered as The Derry Branch of the Ireland Palestine…

By Asa Winstanley for Middle East Monitor The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from…

Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal…

BDS Movement Press Release: We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal settlements…

An advisory committee, in place to monitor and recommend the investment policies of Brown University in Rhode Island voted, on…

August 30, 2019 / Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)  / Israel, United States The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling for the…

Thirty Palestinians in Israeli jails, have joined a hunger strike in solidarity with six detainees who have themselves been refusing…

On Tuesday, 30 July, 20 more Palestinian prisoners joined the eight administrative detainees already on hunger strike as Mohammed Abu Aker, Mustafa…

May 15, 2019/Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)/Palestine Palestinians in the homeland and in exile are commemorating the 71st anniversary of…

May 10, 2019 / Israeli Apartheid Week / Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Arab World, Palestine Thanks to your support, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) was an even…

Classic Palestinian revolutionary poster for 1 May. Artist Marc Rudin On the First of May – International Workers’ Day –…

Last March, outgoing Jewish Agency chair Natan Sharansky declared that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign had “been almost fully defeated”.…

By Justine McCabe, CT Viewpoints An alarming paradox has taken shape in legislation before [the United States’] Congress:  Our representatives would violate…

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)-movement for Palestinian rights was, this week, formally nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize…

Last week, BDS Gulf held its first regional anti-normalization conference in Kuwait City, with a broad participation of speakers, organizations,…

Both Israel and the United States have threatened to cut their funding to the United Nations Human Rights Council if…

By Tom Anderson: This September, the world’s largest arms fair will be held in London. The DSEI weapons exhibition will…

July 9, 2017 marks 12 years since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was born. It’s been 12 years…

Palestine Solidarity Campaign wins case against the UK Government as judge rules government acted unlawfully by restricting local councils from…

The BDS National Committee (BNC) Commemorates the 69th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. It is possible… It is possible at least…

Official statement from the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS): “On May Day, we Palestinian trade unions are proud…

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, has warmly welcomed as a “historic breakthrough” a…

Protesters in New York City gathered outside the Best Buy at Union Square on Friday, 3 March to protest the…

Israeli prisons serve both as an instrument of political persecution and economic exploitation, says Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights…

40 UK towns and cities saw actions across the week, from Brighton to Bristol, Liverpool to Lewisham, Edinburgh to East…

(Photo: A campaigner in the West Bank puts up a poster in support of a campaign during Ramadan encouraging people to…

‘In the face of settler colonial genocide and destruction, the land and water defenders at Standing Rock are defending all…

Overview If Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour passes over the perimeter of her home’s driveway in her village of Reineh in…

Israeli forces raided the Deheishe refugee camp, on Tuesday, in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, in the early morning…

By Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Israeli government formed a ministerial task force to track down any foreigners in Israel who…

BDS National Committee 08/07/16 Palestine solidarity activists in Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf states are expressing outrage after a Saudi delegation…

Protesters gathered in New York City on Friday, 22 July to demand freedom for Bilal Kayed and all Palestinian prisoners.…

Palestinian prisoner Bilal Kayed is continuing his open hunger strike for the 22nd day, as of 7 July; Addameer lawyer…

On March 18th, the Illinois Investment Policy Board blacklisted 11 companies from doing business with the state for allegedly boycotting…

The BDS Committee, on Thursday evening, welcomed the news from the UN Human Rights Council after four resolutions were passed…

A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments,…

A group of Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans who have been victims of Israeli settlement construction filed a lawsuit this week to…

Activists from the London Palestine Action group recently put up to 150 posters regarding Palestinian treatment, at the hands of…

The Israel Today newspaper, on Thursday, said that Israel is setting plans to combat the BDS movement, as it gains…

25 Palestinian political prisoners held by the Israeli occupation in Etzion jail – a detention center attached to the Gush…

Today is the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.Thirty years after the UN partition plan of Palestine,…

In a press conference this week, the Obama administration rejected Israel’s government request to recognize the construction of new [illegal]…

The African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s ruling party, has reiterated its support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) measures…

Over 1,000 Black activists, artists, scholars, students and organizations have launched a statement expressing their solidarity and commitment to ensuring…

The U.S.-based United Church of Christ voted 508 – 124 on Tuesday to divest from companies involved in the Israeli…

This briefing was published on 17 April 2015 to coincide with the annual day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. It…

For Palestinians and people of conscience everywhere, 2014 will be remembered as the year in which Israel carried out its…

The Steering Committee of the United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network, on Sunday, called on the United Church of…

Britain’s largest trade union, ‘Unite’, has condemned Israeli crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories and stepped up to join the…

The latest wave of mass hunger strikes continue for the second week, as Palestinian prisoners demand the end of the…

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