News type: In the News
Simone de Beauvoir Institute’s Statement of Feminist Solidarity with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
On February 17, 2016, representatives of the Students, Faculty, Staff, Fellows, and Research Associates of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute (SdBI)...
University of Chile’s Law Faculty students vote “yes” for BDS
In a referendum held on Monday, 64% of the Law students at the University of Chile voted for cutting the university's ties with Israeli universities...
Alliance of Baptists Divests from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Land
During their National Gathering on April 8-10 in St. Louis, the Alliance of Baptists affirmed the use of nonviolent boycott, divestment, and...
Petition: civil liberties in Europe under threat with government attacks on BDS
As Israel is increasingly unable to defend its regime of apartheid and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people and its regular massacres of...
UNOPS becomes third UN agency in Jordan to drop G4S following campaign
News comes as BDS movement marks Palestinian political prisoners day with protest actions against G4S in several countries...
Twenty-two Literary Figures Explain Why They Signed Letter Calling on PEN American Center to Reject Israeli Government Sponsorship of Festival
April 12, 2016, New York, NY – Twenty-two literary figures who signed a letter calling on the PEN American Center to reject Israeli government...
After wins abroad, BDS conference in West Bank sees local traction
By Allison Deger Tamam Abdul, 60, sells Israeli goods in her West Bank supermarket, but she would rather not. “All of the products we receive are...
UN Human Rights Council votes to establish database of settlement companies
The UN Human Rights Council has this afternoon voted to “to produce a database of all business enterprises” that operate in illegal Israeli...
EU ambassador to Israel must not speak alongside settler leader Dani Dayan at anti-BDS event
March 23 2016 Dear EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, We offer our sincere condolences and thoughts to the people of Belgium during this...
BDS: security company G4S announces plans to exit Israeli market
G4S has lost contracts worth millions of dollars in more than a dozen countries following BDS campaigns protesting its role in Israeli prisons,...