20 YEARS OF
THE BDS MOVEMENT
LATEST
UPDATES
No Room for Genocide!
Palestinian BDS National Committee calls for global pressure on states to ensure war criminals are not allowed into their territory and/or to prosecute them for their crimes. The BNC acknowledges the efforts by private businesses in ensuring war criminals are not welcome on their premises.
From Antwerp to Ashkelon: No Harbour for Genocide
Belgian organisations and movements take legal action against the Belgian Flemish government for failing to block the transfer of illegal military goods to Israel through its ports. Stop the container and ensure accountability!
Faith leaders must step up to this moment
People of all faiths must pressure their faith and political leaders to take concrete action to end any form of complicity in Israel’s genocide, apartheid and other atrocities.
Boycott ZARA: Dressing Up Apartheid and Genocide
The BDS movement officially endorses the grassroots, organic campaign to boycott ZARA. We call on people of conscience around the world to boycott ZARA, the flagship brand of the Spanish multinational Inditex, for its deep and growing complicity in Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide.
Belgian court rules against further transit of all military equipment to Israel for its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
In a landmark ruling, a Brussels Court today ordered the government of the Flemish region in Belgium to block a specific container carrying dual-use items to Israel and also to halt all further transit of military material to Israel for its ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine
Alliances, strategies and tactics grassroots movements can use to target Eni and Dana Petroleum towards a global energy embargo for Palestine
BDS Corporate Complicity Criteria
Corporations that are implicated in the commission of international crimes connected to Israel’s unlawful occupation, racial segregation, and apartheid regime - within or beyond the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 - are all complicit and must be held accountable. Direct complicity includes military, logistical, intelligence, financial, and infrastructure support. The corporations and their boards of directors and executives may face criminal liability for this complicity.
Stop illegal maritime transfers that enable Israel’s genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid
While air transport and navy vessels are also used, a significant amount of military supplies for Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, are shipped via sea on commercial merchant vessels.
Boycott ZARA: Dressing Up Apartheid and Genocide
The BDS movement officially endorses the grassroots, organic campaign to boycott ZARA. We call on people of conscience around the world to boycott ZARA, the flagship brand of the Spanish multinational Inditex, for its deep and growing complicity in Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and genocide.
Belgian court rules against further transit of all military equipment to Israel for its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
In a landmark ruling, a Brussels Court today ordered the government of the Flemish region in Belgium to block a specific container carrying dual-use items to Israel and also to halt all further transit of military material to Israel for its ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
BDS condemns the participation of a Palestinian official in attempts to cover up the EU-Israeli partnership in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society at home and in exile and the leader of the global BDS movement, calls for widespread popular pressure to cancel the participation of the Palestinian government representative in the so-called "Southern Neighbors" meeting in Brussels. This normalizing meeting, which brings together representatives of the European Union, the Israeli Foreign Minister, and several representatives of Arab regimes, aims to legitimize the continuation of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which has led to a full partnership in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of our Palestinian people.
Israel “Disappearing to the Margins” of Horizon due to Academic Boycotts: Let’s Escalate the Exclusion from Below!
After 20 months of Israel’s ongoing livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, BDS pressure from the broad Palestine solidarity movement across European higher education is finally succeeding. In particular, academic boycott and divestment mobilizations by student and university staff have pushed Israel to the margins of the European Union (EU)’s Horizon research program–the world’s largest research program.
PACBI's Position on No Other Land
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has from the start reached the conclusion that this film indeed violates the BDS movement’s anti-normalization guidelines in several ways. The BDS movement has always fought against normalization as a powerful weapon employed by oppressors to whitewash their crimes, to colonize the minds of the oppressed, and to undermine global solidarity with the struggle to end oppression.
Palestinians Call For WEF and Global Shapers To Exclude Genocidal Israel From Events or Face Boycott
Should WEF and Global Shapers fail to exclude Israel, we call for boycotting all their events and activities in which Israel’s delegates participate.
#ShutDownNation
IMPACT
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$340
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Israel’s debt Skyrocketed to $340 billion in the 2nd half of 2024, up 20% from the end of 2022, due to its ongoing #GazaGenocide
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90%
DROP
Initial investments in Israeli startups dropped by 90% in Q1 of 2023, as compared with the same period in 2022.
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"BDS
and BOYCOTTS
have changed Israel’s global trade landscape," said Avi Balashnikov, Chairman of the Israel Export Institute.
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JUNK
Credit rating
Israel’s credit rating near junk, says Moody’s
BDS MOVEMENT'S GLOBAL IMPACT: JULY - DECEMBER 2024
THE DAY AFTER CEASEFIRE
Our hope is decolonized!
What BDS means to Palestinians
CAMPAIGNS
Boycott Microsoft's Xbox
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now priority BDS target.
Microsoft
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
BOYCOTT REEBOK
Reebok sponsors the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes in its official league teams in illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The IFA advocates, together with the Israeli government, to maintain these teams.
ECONOMIC BOYCOTT
The economic boycott of Israel aims to put pressure on Israel to comply with international law and to persuade private companies to end their participation in Israel’s crimes. The Israeli economy is particularly dependent on international trade and investment, making it especially susceptible to international economic boycotts. Many global companies, such as G4S and HP, profit from helping Israel maintain its system of apartheid and settler colonialism. Campaigns against and divestment from international companies increase the pressure on them to end their complicity with Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
CULTURAL BOYCOTT
Israel overtly uses culture as a form of propaganda to whitewash or justify its regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid over the Palestinian people. Just as South African anti-apartheid activists had called on international artists, writers and cultural institutions to culturally boycott South Africa, PACBI urges international cultural workers and cultural organizations, including unions and associations, to boycott and/or work towards the cancellation of events, activities, agreements, or projects involving Israel, its lobby groups or its cultural institutions.
Right To Boycott
Having failed to stop the rise in worldwide support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality, Israel is now launching a desperate and dangerous fight back.
Mask off Maersk
Maersk does not just support the US-enabled Israeli genocide through outbound shipping of military cargo from the U.S. to Israel. Maersk ships also carry military cargo to arms manufacturers in the US in order for these weapons companies to assemble the weapons that murder our people
BNP PARIBAS
Avec Attac et l’Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), nous avons décidé de cibler la banque française BNP Paribas de par sa complicité envers le régime d’apartheid et de colonisation israélien qui occupe illégalement les territoires palestiniens de Cisjordanie et de Jérusalem Est et qui perpétue un génocide à Gaza, selon un arrêté de la Cour Internationale de Justice (CIJ). La construction et l’expansion des colonies israéliennes constituent une violation majeure du droit international. La colonisation israélienne en Cisjordanie, élément central du régime d’apartheid israélien, est un crime de guerre selon l’ONU et est à l’origine de nombreuses violations des droits humains, dont la mort de plus de 660 Palestinien·nes depuis 1 an. Quatre banques françaises, BNP Paribas, le groupe Banque Populaire – Caisse d’Épargne, la Société Générale et le Crédit Agricole, figurent parmi les dix institutions financières européennes qui ont investi le plus dans des entreprises impliquées dans les colonies illégales et dans l’armement d’Israël.
Booking.com: Stop Profiting from War Crimes
Booking.com directly supports and benefits from Israel’s illegal occupation of the illegally occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, by offering services such as vacation homes and hotels in Israeli illegal settlements built on stolen Palestinian land.
How to
Get involved
THE “B” IN BDS
BOYCOTT| Economic/consumer, cultural, academic, anti-pinkwashing, etc.
THE "S" IN BDS
SANCTIONS| Targeting influential political parties, parliaments, local/state/national governments, etc..
THE “D” IN BDS
DIVESTMENT| Divest from (where applicable) as many of the most complicit companies.
FIND A LOCAL GROUP
Join a campaign in your area, mobilize and organize with groups around you.