Analysis
International efforts at achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace: Civil society initiatives for a comprehensive, just and lasting solution of the question of Palestine
This speech on international solidarity with Palestine and BDS was delivered by Na’eem Jeenah, a community leader and anti-war activist in South Africa, to the UN International Meeting on Palestine in Addis Ababa in April
Disappointing French ruling on Veolia still paves way for suing occupation profiteers
Court rules against campaigners but fails to address whether Jerusalem light rail complies with law
Brazil says no to Israeli arms
This first demand–to embargo Israeli arms–is the central aim of the Brazilian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign led by the Frente em Defesa do Povo Palestino-SP (Front in Defense of the Palestinian People–São Paulo), which is composed of dozens of Brazil’s civil society organizations
Iain Banks: why I’m supporting a cultural boycott of Israel
This week writer Iain Banks announced he has cancer and may have just months to live. Here he explains why, in 2010, he decided his novels would no longer be published in Israel I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) … Continue reading
Israel, Obama, and other people’s oil
The US, the European Union and other donor nations effectively subsidise Israel’s exploitation of Palestinian resources
Guerrilla research exposes sponsors of Israeli apartheid
Corporate Watch’s research provides BDS campaigners with detailed information used to hold companies complicit with Israeli crimes to account
Israel and the politics of boycott
Zionism and Israel will continue to support any boycott that seeks to institutionalise racism and racial separatism
The BDS movement explained
If boycott is “withdrawing . . . cooperation from an evil system,” as Martin Luther King Jr. teaches us, BDS fundamentally calls on all peace-loving U.S. citizens to fulfill their profound moral obligation to desist from complicity in Israel’s system of oppression against the Palestinian people
How the JCRC inspired New York officials to fight BDS
When New York public officials criticized Brooklyn College for hosting a BDS event with Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti, their claimed interest in the matter was that the college was a public, taxpayer-funded institution and that, at best, the event was “one-sided” and needed “balance.”
