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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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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.

Ceasfire

The day after ceasefire: Escalate pressure to cease the genocide and help us dismantle apartheid

A ceasefire, however, is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. Without massive pressure, it may constitute a continuation of a less visible form of genocide that Israel and the US hope will provoke less regional and global outrage, boycotts and sanctions.

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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Erreà Is Lying About Its Complicity in Israel’s Gaza Genocide and Apartheid Regime

On January 1, 2025, Italian sportswear company Erreà will enter into a sponsorship contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA) as Israel escalates the unspeakable horrors of its genocide in Gaza. Erreà will take over from the German multinational PUMA. In December 2023, PUMAleaked news that it would not be renewing its contract with the IFA following a 5-year global boycott campaign over the IFA’s complicity in Israel’s decades-long apartheid regime and military occupation, and more recently, its Gaza genocide.

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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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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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GREENWASHING APARTHEID

Greenwashing is a marketing tactic used by countries and corporations to deceptively promote themselves as climate-friendly and conceal the fact that their policies and practices actually cause substantial environmental harm. Consequently, greenwashing exacerbates the climate emergency as well as social and ecological injustices.

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.