BDS

The historical campaign to end Israel's occupation of Palestine is nearing its "South Africa moment", according to Omar Barghouti.

Duke University’s Student Government voted on March 16 to give over $16,000 to an upcoming event featuring a speaker who is a staunch critic of Israel and Zionism.

B’nai Brith Canada urges McGill University in Montreal to withdraw funding from Students’ Society after it votes to adopt “Palestine Solidarity Policy”.

Civil society activists from 21 countries across Africa have pledged to intensify the fight against Israel’s apartheid practices against the Palestinian people.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has commended the graduate and undergraduate students at the Washington-based Georgetown University who successfully prevented $30,000 in student funding from being used for a propaganda trip to apartheid Israel.

BDS movement says South Africa should not be playing a tie this weekend in Ashdod, a Palestinian town ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948.

Trade with settlements in Occupied Territories contributes to human rights abuses and must be banned, as part of a European Citizen's Initiative (ECI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated.

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.