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Unprecedented blow to funding genocide: No sale of Israel bonds in the EU since September 1st 2026
Both Ireland and Luxembourg have stopped facilitating the sale of Israel bonds in the European Union in 2026, and as a result Israel bonds have not been sold in the EU since September 1st. BDS salutes this important development and calls for sustained and intensified pressure on all EU member states now to end complicity in Israel’s genocide and atrocity crimes against the Palestinian people.
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“Gravest crime against humanity”, UNGA formally recognizes chattel slavery and calls for reparatory justice.
The BDS movement calls for implementation of historic UN General Assembly resolution on chattel slavery.
Applause for the academic boycott of Israel
Israel's reflexive defenders have reverted to their customary blunt cudgel: the charge that critics of Israeli policies are anti-Semitic. Their...
Vijay Prashad in Washington Post: Understanding the boycott of Israel’s universities
The growing movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israeli universities has struck a chord in Israel. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said...
BDS: Permanent Address for Palestinian Solidarity
Roger Waters in occupied Palestine. (Image via WagingNonviolence.org) The intellectual dishonesty of...
Is BDS' campaign against Israel reaching a turning point?
At the height of its military - particularly nuclear - and economic power, Israel is feeling uncharacteristically vulnerable; but this time the...
Eight Years of the BDS Movement: Where have we come since 2005?
As the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement passes the eight year point since the 2005 Call, the 54th issue of al-Majdal evaluates its...
Swell of boycotts driving Israel into international isolation
Western activists and diplomats are gunning for Israel's settlements in the Palestinian territories, and if peace talks fail, the rain of boycotts...
EU sanctions Israeli settlements but not state that created them
Israel’s settlements are the inevitable outcome of colonial state policy. (Keren Manor / ActiveStills) Earlier this year, the European Union ...
The settlements are an all-Israeli project and the boycott can’t be limited to them.
It appears that international sanctions work and that a boycott is a tool like no other. Even Israel’s prime minister has admitted this; he has...
To support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is not antisemitic
The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a thriving Palestinian-led initiative that attacks institutional links to Israel’s illegal...
BDS campaigner targeted by law firm with links to Israeli intelligence
A law firm targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has close links to Israeli intelligence, US government cables leaked by...