Updates from the palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): Posted by Palestinian BDS National Committee

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gaza-action-feb9aPhoto from today's demonstration in Gaza (Photo: Joe Catron)

- 300 farmers and activists in Gaza march towards the buffer zone near the border with Israel to demand boycott of Israeli agriculture firms

- 16 Palestinian agricultural and civil society organisations http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/palestinian-agricultural-o

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G4S has been nominated for the infamous 'Worst Company of the Year' Public Eye People’s Award. G4S is complicit in human rights abuses across the world and helps Israel commit crimes against the Palestinians.  G4S is involved in running Israel's prisons, checkpoints, police force and Apartheid Wall.

Israel has a contract with the Israeli Prison service and provides equipment and services to prisons at which Israel detains Palestinian political prisoners without charge and subjects them to torture and ill-treatment.

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As this new aggression on the people of Gaza shows, Israel will continue its belligerence and state terrorism unless it is made to pay a heavy price for its crimes against the Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab peoples.

Palestinian civil society has called for a campaign of boycott, divestment a

BNC Statement

Occupied Palestine, 15 November 2012 - On November 8, Israel carried out an attack on civilians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, shooting 13-year-old Ahmad Abu Daqqa while he played football with friends.

BNC Statement

Arabic version of this statement: http://www.bdsmovement.net/files/2012/09/Bashar-Masri-BNC-statement-ARB-13-Sep-2012-Letterhead.pdf

Occupied Palestine, 10 September 2012 -- The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society that includes Palestinian political parties, unions, NGOs and grassroots organisations and leads the global BDS movement, strongly condemns the participation of Palest

September 10, 2012
BNC Statement

Occupied Palestine, August 16 - The Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest coalition of Palestinian trade unions, NGOs and mass organisations, salutes and warmly congratulates the South African government for adopting a principled policy to dissuade South African citizens and especially official organisations from travelling to Israel due to its “continued occupation of Palestinian land”.[1]

This welcome show of support for Palestinian rights and for a just peace based on international law is precisely the kind of concrete action that the overwhel

BNC Statement

Occupied Palestine, 9 July 2012 – Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious citizens of th