The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to unite in your different capacities and struggles for a Global BDS Day of Action on 30 March 2010 in solidarity with the Palestinian people and for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.

Gaza, 20.December.2009 -- This week marks one year since Israel began its attack on the Gaza Strip: a year since phosphorus bombs, dime bombs and other weapons of death and destruction were unleashed on a defenseless civilian population. A year since the people of the world demanded that Israel end its attack on Gaza.

(en français ci-dessous // español en la parte inferior)

“A moment of truth–A word of faith from the heart of Palestinian suffering”

[Press Release - 25 November 2009 // Click here for Spanish translation]

Information sheet released by the Palestinian BDS Campaign National Committee (BNC) at the Press Conference held in Jerusalem on 16 November 2009.

Jerusalem Press Conference:
Time:     Monday, 16 November 2009, 10:00 am
Place:     Mount Scopus Hotel in Jerusalem  

Illegal Israeli settlements should not be promoted as a form of sustainable architecture.

The BNC sent the letter below to Beatriz Corredor Sierra (Minister of Housing, Government of Spain) and Javier UcedaAntolín (Rector, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

President Rafael Correa,

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) has released a report entitled 'Democratic South Africa’s complicity in Israel’s occupation, colonialism and apartheid', based on research from the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.

BNC - This year the Latin America Aero & Defense trade show will be held in Rio de Janeiro from April 14 - 17. The show will host and promote the world's most renowned merchants and producers of war, repression, torture and mass murder. Israeli war criminals feature prominently among them.

The BDS Global Day of Action is part of the Global Week of Action against Capitalism and War from March 28 to April 4, 2009, that was launched by the Social Movements Assembly at the WSF in Belem* --- Today, the Palestinian people scattered across the globe mark Land Day, commemorating the events of 33 years ago....

“United Against Apartheid, Colonialism and Occupation - Dignity & Justice for the Palestinian People”
Israel Review Conference
Geneva, 18-19 April 2009
Visit: http://israelreview.bdsmovement.net

Palestine, 3 February 2009 -- The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, BNC, warmly salutes the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU), a member of COSATU, for its decision today not to offload an Israeli ship that is due to arrive in Durban, South Africa, on 8 February.

(Links to Arabic, Spanish,  French and Portuguese version below) Occupied Ramallah, Palestine - 27 December 2008:  Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when the first Israeli military strikes started.

23 December 2008 (Francais ci-dessous)- In this holiday season, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, BNC*, calls upon people of conscience all over the world to boycott all the products of the French cosmetics giant, L'Oreal**,

[see updated list of endorsers and download the document below]

Cancel the Peres Visit! Do Not Honour the Dishonourable!
Open Letter to the Master of Balliol College at the University of Oxford

Palestine, October 2008 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on the hosts in the fourteen American cities where the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to perform between October 26, 2008 and November 16, 2008 to rescind their invitations to the Orchestra.

Palestine, October 19 2008

On November 3, 2008 a Norwegian-Israeli Business and Research Seminar will be held in Oslo, in an attempt to enhance bilateral cooperation in trade and research. On behalf of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC):

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on Telkom South Africa not to enter into a deal with Amdocs Ltd. that would outsource billing functionality to the latter.

Management at Lev Leviev Diamond Polishing Company (LLD) in Windhoek, Namibia is threatening to fire 153 diamond polishers who have been on strike since June 19th protesting abusive managers as well as overdue job appraisals, promotions, wages and outstanding overtime pay.

On the fourth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s ruling that Israel’s Wall is illegal, the BNC is calling on the EU not to upgrade its relationship with Israel and to suspend the EU Association Agreement. Today’s call is supported by 100 European civil society organizations. Join in the campaign for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement!

To: Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, AM and Speaker of the National Assembly for Wales

Cc: Mr. Mohammad Asghar, AM

Call to support the first major student union in Quebec or Canada to back the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel

The BDS National Committee (BNC), comprising over 200 Palestinian civil society organizations and including all major Palestinian workers' unions, salutes the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) for their decision to support the international campaign for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli apartheid regime.