Today, April 17th, is #PalestinianPrisonersDay. On this day, and everyday, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, proudly reaffirms our unwavering solidarity with all Palestinian political prisoners in apartheid Israel’s prisons and detention centers.
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Since the beginning of the war in early 2022, AXA has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its devastating human consequences. Yet, where is AXA’s responsibility towards Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid and occupation, for over 74 years? AXA continues to invest in Israeli banks that are on the UN list of corporations involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The Intercept has recently revealed that David Fingold, a pro-Israel investment fund manager, has dubiously invested $500M for Scotiabank in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms firm involved in war crimes against Palestinians, despite the Canadian bank’s core investment policy of “advancing human rights.”
In recent years, spyware—technology secretly installed on digital devices which covertly collects confidential information about a target—has been exposed as a weapon used by states and companies to monitor, control, manipulate, and repress human rights defenders, including activists, journalists, and lawyers.
Occupied Palestine, April 10th, 2023 - The global trade union movement, which has played a key and inspiring role in its commitment to workers’ rights and human rights more generally, has stood in principled solidarity with the oppressed across the world, adopting concrete, ground-breaking, labor-led sanctions against oppressive regimes.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) – a founding member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest entity in Palestinian society that is leading the global BDS movement – condemns the blatantly political double standards and brazen hypocrisy of Eurovision organisers, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). We also condemn the contest’s complicity in whitewashing Israel’s ethnic cleansing and apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians.
Infamous Israeli war criminal Moshe Dayan once said, “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” Drunk with impunity and unparalleled influence in Washington and Brussels, this mad dog is now biting the hand that feeds it, but wants the feeding to go on. In response to Biden’s weak criticism of the far-right Israeli government’s unmasked turn to authoritarianism and dumping of the two-state charade, Israeli leaders lashed out at the US, ignoring its role as the indispensable funder, enabler and defender of apartheid Israel.
The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition, condemns FIFA’s decision to remove Indonesia as host of the upcoming FIFA Under-20 Men’s World Cup, an act of jaw-dropping hypocrisy and colonial arrogance. We call on FIFA member associations, including Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states, to withdraw their teams from the unjustly relocated U-20 tournament and refuse to host it in protest of FIFA's colonial hypocrisy and Islamophobia.
On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were murdered by Israel’s apartheid forces as they took part in non-violent protests against the theft of their land. Every March 30th, Indigenous Palestinians commemorate Land Day in honor of the struggle against Israeli settler-colonial oppression and for freedom, justice and equality. Israel has continued for decades its policies of land theft, forcible transfer and erasure of Palestinians.
As Palestinians struggling for our rights under the violent oppression of Israeli apartheid, the constant fight to simply exist and be who we are weighs heavily on us. But we won’t give up. Artists like you have stood in the face of hateful discrimination, empowering many worldwide.
Palestinians call to boycott apartheid Israel’s Summer In The City music festival and urge all international artists to withdraw, just as progressive artists boycotted apartheid South Africa. Performing in apartheid Tel Aviv and crossing the Palestinian picket line – regardless of intentions – whitewashes apartheid Israel’s oppression of millions of Palestinians.