BDS

The international anti-Israel movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) has taken a swipe at the world football governing body, FIFA, over its decision to postpone the vote on suspension of Israel from international football until after the Paris Olympics.

The Hamas Movement has said that the worldwide efforts to boycott the Israeli occupation state have succeeded in destabilizing its economy, and isolating and delegitimizing it, especially after the October 7 events.

Pro-Palestine demonstrations continue across Italy while an increasing number of Italian universities are voicing their firm opposition to Israel's massacres in Gaza and the West Bank through boycott campaigns.

The CEO of McDonald’s Chris Kempczinski has admitted that the world’s largest burger chain is facing significant financial losses due to the international anti-Israel boycott movement over the firm’s links to the Zionist regime amid its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Human Rights office has updated a list of companies doing business with illegal Israeli settlements, removing 15 companies from the database that were no longer involved, a spokesperson said on Friday, Reuters reports.

The largest academic organization of anthropologists in the US will hold a vote this week on whether to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their involvement in Israel's discrimination and oppression of Palestinians.

The Belgian city of Verviers has become the latest city in Europe to cut its “ties with the Israeli apartheid regime” to “strengthen its support for the Palestinian people.”

An Israeli observer delegation at the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa has been expelled from the opening ceremony, after representatives from South Africa and Algeria reportedly objected to the presence of diplomats from the apartheid Zionist regime in the event.

Hamas Movement welcomed in a statement issued Friday Oman’s decision to expand boycott of Israeli occupation.

The pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has launched a worldwide campaign for a mass consumer boycott of the France-based multinational retailer Carrefour Group.

Trinity College, Ireland's leading university, has announced that it no longer has investments in arms and weapons companies that are complicit with the Israeli apartheid regime.

The European Union's energy deals with Israel violate the block's own policies and obligations under international law, according to the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC).

A global anti-Israel campaign has slammed the West's double standard policies on wars in Ukraine and Gaza, saying the United States and Europe as well as the Arab countries that have normalized ties with Israel are complicit in the Zionist regime's crimes against the Palestinian people.

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Company is seeking to prevent parent company Unilever Plc from transferring intellectual property and branding to an Israeli company. The case is being heard at the federal Southern District Court of New York.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas welcomes the signing of a resolution condemning the "institutionalised apartheid regime" instituted by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and calling for removing all obstacles in the way of calls to boycott Israeli products.

In a massive blow to the pro-Israel lobby, Ben & Jerry's has doubled down on its decision to boycott business in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has called for boycott of Doc Edge Festival in New Zealand until it drops partnership with the Israeli embassy.

Palestine: Norway’s decision to label settlements’ products ‘important legal step’ in right direction.

Norway announced that products coming from the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights must be labelled with their place of origin.

The group says its goal is to demonstrate that “institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy here where we live, and to US imperialist projects in other countries.”

US students at a prominent New York university have denounced a decision by a city council member to remove funds allocated to providing free legal services to the community.

There have been urgent calls from the Palestinian community in New Zealand for filmmakers and the public to boycott the film festival until it refuses the support of the Israeli Embassy.

New City Councilwoman, Inna Vernikov, will be withdrawing $50,000 in funding for the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School due to the faculty's support of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement resolution, New York Post reported.

Forty-nine staff members at Harvard University have signed an open letter endorsing the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement and student efforts to oppose Israeli apartheid.

Forty-nine staff members at Harvard University have signed an open letter endorsing the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement and student efforts to oppose Israeli apartheid.

Two activists blockaded an Israeli arms firm’s London HQ today to protest against the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

In further indication of the growing support for Palestine in campuses across the world, Melbourne University Students' Union (UMSU) recently passed a resolution -10 to 6- endorsing the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

Harvard University's student-run daily newspaper has announced its support for and endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Israeli occupation, making it one of the most significant steps by an American university against the occupation.

British activists from the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action shut down the London headquarters of an Israeli-owned arms firm for the third time in two weeks.

NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine accused Israel of being an “apartheid regime” and said the violence by a presumed Palestinian gunman was “a direct result of the Israeli occupation.”

Egypt's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has strongly condemned hosting an Israeli music festival at Egyptian army-owned facilities in the Sinai Peninsula, The New Arab news website reported on Friday.

The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Ohio State University has passed an emergency resolution calling on the University to divest from two companies that contribute to human rights violations against the Palestinian people by providing technology and tools to the Israeli military.

Sixty per cent of academics and scholars in Middle Eastern studies across several American universities have described Israel's occupation of Palestine as "a one state reality akin to apartheid," a new survey shows.

The teach-in was co-hosted by the Princeton Committee on Palestine (PCP) and Students for Prison Education, Abolition and Reform (SPEAR) and focused on the Caterpillar machinery referendum that students will begin voting on this week. 

Members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee hold signs and banners during a protest against the Israeli Block Party event in Austin on Tuesday. Protesters gathered near the McCombs School of Business across the street on Speedway from the Israeli Block Party event.

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has voted in favour of a resolution condemning Israel for its 'systematic violations' against Palestinians and calling for boycotts, divestments and sanctions against Israeli institutions.

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.