BDS

A petition calling for an EU ban on imports from illegal settlements, including Israeli ones in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, has met with accusations of trying to promote the destruction of Israel, on day one of the campaign.

Palestine supporters have damaged the offices of a property firm that manages premises for an Israeli-owned arms manufacturer in Britain.

A Palestinian-led campaign has called for a boycott of German sportswear company Puma over its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA), reports Anadolu Agency.

PUMA continues to sponsor the Israel Football Association (IFA). Tens of thousands of people have already petitioned PUMA demanding that the company ends this sponsorship deal with the IFA.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee, (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition, warmly welcomed Amnesty International’s report condemning Israel’s apartheid regime.

An anti-Zionist student group at the University of Chicago called on students last week to boycott courses about Israel and Israeli academic fellows.

A UK-based Palestinian academic at Sheffield Hallam University has been reinstated in her teaching post, one week after she was suspended following a smear campaign by supporters of Israel.

Palestinian American filed the lawsuit after city of Houston required his company to sign a pledge not to boycott Israel.

The festival, which wraps up on Sunday, has endured weeks of negative publicity and withdrawals by dozens of acts including comedians Judith Lucy and Nazeem Hussain as well as TV personality Yumi Stynes and Indigenous theatre troupe Marrugeku.

State agencies would be barred from doing business with any company or contractor unless they vow not to boycott Israel under a bill approved by the Georgia General Assembly.

In a victory for political freedom, a German federal court ruled that Munich’s refusal of a public venue for a debate on the city’s anti-BDS resolution was unconstitutional.

The Israeli government said it will increase funding to counter the BDS movement in light of what it alleges was 'increasing anti-semitism'.