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Recent Divestment Articles
- Caterpillar’s instransigence: Read the new MRTI Report
- Pacific Northwest MEChA Regional Conference Endorses Palestinian BDS Call
- UMASS BOSTON STUDENT SENATE PASSES RESOLUTION CALLING FOR DIVESTMENT FROM BOEING
- G4S loses its contract with the European Parliament
- Judge throws out Israel-backed lawsuit against Olympia Food Co-op, upholds right to boycott
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Divestment Resources
- Veolia Fact Sheet
- Companies building the Wall
- Divest Now! A handbook for student divestment campaigns
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Divestment Statements
- Derail Israel’s Unlawful A1 Train Project – End International Complicity
- Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project – End International Complicity
- Veolia and Alstom feel the heat – BNC calls for intensifying pressure!
Analysis, News
Church of England: Dumping Caterpillar
Stuart Littlewood [Palestine Chronicle] – God whispered in the Church of England’s ear and it dumped its shares in Caterpillar. This House of God had about £2.5m invested in a company that manufactures one of Israel’s weapons of mass misery and destruction.
News
NYU administration thuggishly breaks Palestine-solidarity occupation
Sumoud Political Prisoners Solidarity Group – Today New York University has shown its true face more than ever. Claiming to be a "private university in the public service," it is clearly not even in the service of those students whose tuitions allow it to exist.
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News
NYU BUILDING TAKEOVER: In Solidarity with Workers' and Palestinian Rights
At approximately 10pm on Feb. 18, students of Take Back NYU! took over the Kimmel Marketplace. They blockaded the doors and declared an occupation!
They presented the following demands to the NYU administration:
Briefing, Downloads
Palestine: Profiting from Occupation
Israel’s occupation of Palestine is propped up with the help of international corporations and financial institutions. This report profiles a wide array of international and UK-based companies complicit in the occupation and analyses the role of international trade projects in institutionalising the Israeli apartheid regime.
News
Israeli Activists Launch Database of Corporations Operating in 1967 Occupied Palestine
*Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?* — *Announcing a new on-line database: www.whoprofits.org*
News
Update on AFPS-PLO Lawsuit Against Veolia and Alstom
In February 2007, AFPS brought suit to the Magistrates’ Court of Nanterre against VEOLIA TRANSPORT and ALSTOM seeking to obtain cancellation of the contract for the construction and operation of a light rail system in the West Bank, signed in July 2005 between these two companies and the Israeli government, within the City Pass consor
News
Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire Calls for Divestment from Israel
The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire has recently passed a resolution to support the call for divestment from corporations that allow and profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The resolution intends to increase awareness of the companies that actively participate in the oppression of Palestine, and to divest from these companies.
News
Bilbao, the Basque Country and Spain Join the Palestinian Campaign for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Targeting Veolia.
By The Alternative Information Center – On 1 November a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, in response to the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, joined
News
General Confederation of Trade Unions in Bergen district holds seminar to follow up BDS motion
Among the speakers at the seminar entitled “Boycott of Israel – how and why?” are the former leader of the Norwegian Peoples Aid, Finn Erik Thoresen, who was also active in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, as well as Olav Terje Bergo, who is the editor of Bergensavisen, a local newspaper , that has in the past called for sanctions against Israel.
News
Civic Coalition calls for blacklist of corporations supporting the occupation of Jerusalem
A network of seventeen Palestinian human rights NGOs today launched a campaign to mobilize the international community to end Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem.




