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20 YEARS OF
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No room for genocide

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.

Boycott ZARA: Dressing Up Apartheid and Genocide

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.

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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.

Boycott ZARA: Dressing Up Apartheid and Genocide

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.

BNC

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.

Trinity College Dublin students celebrate the school's decision to divest from Israeli companies linked to human rights crimes against Palestinians, on May 8, 2024 in Dublin.

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.

No Other Land

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.

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IMPACT

  • $340

    billion

    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

  • 90%

    DROP

    Initial investments in Israeli startups dropped by 90% in Q1 of 2023, as compared with the same period in 2022.

  • "BDS

    and BOYCOTTS

    have changed Israel’s global trade landscape," said Avi Balashnikov, Chairman of the Israel Export Institute.

  • JUNK

    Credit rating

    Israel’s credit rating near junk, says Moody’s

OUR IMPACT

BDS MOVEMENT'S GLOBAL IMPACT: JULY - DECEMBER 2024

INDICATORS OF IMPACT (a representative sampling of many similar developments)
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Ceasfire

THE DAY AFTER CEASEFIRE

ESCALATE PRESSURE TO CEASE THE GENOCIDE AND HELP US DISMANTLE APARTHEID
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Our hope is decolonized!
What BDS means to Palestinians

CAMPAIGNS

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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.

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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 - Sponsor of Israeli apartheid

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.

Boycott List

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

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.

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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.

Maersk

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

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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.

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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 Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality needs your support. It's simple to get involved with the BDS movement today.

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.