BDS

A Palestinian general strike, supported by the Palestinian trade unions, was observed across the Occupied Territory of Palestine. Palestinian workers organisations called out to trade unions around the world to refuse to handle Israeli goods. Workers in Genoa, Italy, Durban in South Africa and Oakland in the U.S. answered the call.

Moshava, an Israeli food truck based in Philadelphia, was disinvited from a food festival in the city slated for Sunday after threats and complaints about its participation.

As Yvonne Ridley reported this week, Lothian Pension Fund's divestment makes it the third such local authority institution to divest from Bank Hapoalim. Falkirk Pension Fund divested in 2018 in response to pressures from activists and trade unions; in early 2019 Tayside Pension Fund followed suit.

Pro-Palestinian activists have taken over an aerospace factory in the northwestern British town of Runcorn, which reportedly supplies parts for drones produced by Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.

Dockworkers in the US Port of Oakland have refused to unload an Israeli cargo ship as part of an international boycott campaign against Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.

In an unprecedented wave of solidarity, more than 300 academic departments, programs, centers, unions, and societies worldwide have endorsed statements in support of Palestinian rights in response to Israel's violent attacks on Palestinians this month.

564 people put their names to letter urging their government to boycott Israeli academic institutions.

Protestors were waving the Palestinian flag with a placard reading, 'Stop doing what Hitler did to you', while a poster held by a woman read, 'Israel, the new Nazi state'. 

Dockworkers in the South African port city of Durban have refused to offload cargo from an Israeli ship in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, and in protest at Tel Aviv’s military aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.

As Israel continues to bombard Gaza, direct-action protest group, Palestine Action, has seized control of one of the buildings belonging to Israel's most advanced weapons manufacture, Elbit Systems.

The Zionist regime’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to “apartheid”, said the international anti-Israel movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).

Pomona College’s student government has unanimously voted in favor of a resolution to ban student government funds from companies that support Israel.