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This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week will be the most important since IAW was launched 20 years ago! With the ongoing Nakba at its height, Israel is carrying out the world’s first ever live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza while it continues to entrench its 75-year-old settler-colonial apartheid regime against all Indigenous Palestinians. 

In a recent statement, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) called on the International Olympic Committee, FIFA and all regional and international sports governing bodies to take an urgent stance towards Israel’s grave violations of human rights and subject it to legal accountability measures. 

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) welcomes the decision of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in Brazil to cancel the “Innovation Challenge Brazil – Israel” over Israel’s military assault that has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

We are a group of philosophy professors in North America, Latin America, and Europe writing to publicly and unequivocally express our solidarity with the Palestinian people and to denounce the ongoing and rapidly escalating massacre being committed in Gaza by Israel and with the full financial, material, and ideological support of our own governments.

Israel’s live-streamed genocide, armed, funded and enabled by the US and colonial European powers, is unprecedented in history. It has banned the entry of life-sustaining food, water, fuel and medical supplies to 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, causing starvation and the spread of diseases. In parallel, it has indiscriminately bombed Gaza,  deliberately destroying hospitals, universities, schools, UN shelters, bakeries, solar panels, residential neighborhoods, telecommunications facilities, as well as water and sewage treatment infrastructure. 

As Israel’s decades-old regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid continues to escalate its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, a new wave of solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading globally. Many people are learning for the first time about the historic 2005 Palestinian civil society call to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel until it complies with international law. In this guide, we lay out the movement’s basics, best practices, and some helpful tips and ideas for strategic BDS campaigning. 

McDonald’s franchisee in Malaysia, owned by the Saudi company, Lionhorn Pte Ltd, has filed a SLAPP or “shock-and-awe” lawsuit against BDS Malaysia, a solidarity group advocating justice and equality for Palestinians, accusing it of “defamation” and seeking damages of over $1 million.

The Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Committee (PAACC), comprising the Anti-Apartheid Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the BDS Movement, the Palestinian Human Rights Organization Council (PHROC) and the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), salutes South Africa for its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza.

The US, with the complicity of Arab dictatorships and European satellite states, has once again imposed its will on the UN Security Council, preventing a permanent ceasefire and an end to Israel’s deadly siege of Gaza.

Israel has demanded that 1.1 million Palestinians evacuate the northern half of Gaza, whilst subjecting them to constant bombardment. This ruthless move is part of Israel's plan, backed by unwavering support and active participation from the US and majority of European states, to carry out unprecedented and heinous massacres against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and to ethnically cleanse it altogether. Since Saturday Israel has indiscriminately and intensively bombarded Gaza, and cut off fuel, electricity, water, food, and medical supplies.

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, salutes the Malaysian government for its inspiring decision to ban vessels from the deeply complicit Israeli shipping company, ZIM, as well as any other vessel flying the Israeli flag or headed for Israeli ports, from docking at Malaysian ports.