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UK, France & Canada shatter the taboo of “sanctions” against Israel. Now we need to fight to make them real.

Pass a human rights investment and procurement policy, stipulating that the city will not invest in or contract with companies complicit in grave human rights violations.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society leading the global BDS movement, calls for immediate pressure on all States to support the updated resolution tabled at the UN General Assembly calling for sanctions on Israel. The resolution is aimed at enacting the July 2024 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the illegality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory and its violation of the prohibition of apartheid under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). A vote is expected in a few days.

In September, the UN General Assembly passed a historic resolution, calling for states and the UN to sanction Israel. This resolution affirmed that the July 2024 ruling by the ICJ triggers the legal obligation of all states to end complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime. 124 states across the globe committed to take the first steps to impose sanctions. The time to make this a reality is now!

Over the course of Israel’s year-long live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, it has attacked the United Nations repeatedly. It has killed 228 UN staff members in Gaza—the highest number of UN personnel killed in any conflict since the creation of the UN.

On September 18th, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted for imposing sanctions on Israel for the first time in 42 years! The global majority affirmed that the historic ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) triggers the legal obligation of all states to end complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime.

On this day in 1982, under the oversight and control of the Israeli occupation forces, a fascist, Israeli-backed Lebanese militia began a planned 3-day brutal massacre of several thousand Palestinian refugees, along with Lebanese civilians, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in occupied Beirut.

On September 10, the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) started in New York.  Whether or not the world body will finally take action this time depends on every single member state from around the world.

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement calls for the international prosecution of leaders of the United States, including...