BDS

Several high-profile artists in the UK who have joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have condemned an Australian singer after he defended his recent music tour of Israel.

Israel has refused to grant an entry visa to a group of French politicians, who intended to visit jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, over their support for a global pro-Palestine campaign against the regime’s occupation and land grab policies.

A large number of students, in Sochi, Russia for an international festival, have staged a pro-Palestinian rally in front of the central media center there, calling out for freedom of Palestine.

Heckler & Koch says it will end its sales to war zones or the parties that are corrupt and breach democratic standards, including the regimes in Israel and Saudi Arabia.

A United Nations blacklist of companies operating in the occupied West Bank, the occupied old city of Quds (‘Jerusalem’) and the occupied Golan Heights includes some of the biggest firms in Israeli industry as well as some household names in the US.

US-based organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has launched a campaign targeting Birthright Israel, a non-profit organization that sponsors and sends Jewish young adults on a free ten-day trip to Israel that “aims to strengthen Jewish identity, Jewish communities, and connection with Israel and its people,” according to the Birthright website.

The grandson of South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician, Nelson Mandela, has called on South Africa’s government to expel the Israeli ambassador to Pretoria and sever all diplomatic and business relations with the Tel Aviv regime.

Palestinians have hailed a recent decision by South Africa’s ruling party to downgrade the country’s embassy in the occupied territories to a liaison office in an attempt to reduce diplomatic relations with Israel.d

The camp is located on land belonging to the village of Sarura, whose inhabitants were expelled by Israeli forces between 1980 – 1998.

The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel is winning, a top anti-BDS strategist has conceded.

Norway’s biggest and most influential trade union has approved a boycott of Israel, as global outrage intensifies at the Tel Aviv regime’s oppression of Palestinians.