Campaign: BDS Impact

Unprecedented blow to funding genocide: No sale of Israel bonds in the EU since September 1st 2026

BDS National Committee

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.

European Society of Criminology Votes Overwhelmingly Against Whitewashing Israel's Atrocity Crimes

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

The European Society of Criminology voted by a significant majority to require scholars from illegal settlement institutions to indicate in their affiliations such location in accordance with international law and to condemn Israel’s atrocity crimes against Palestinians, including its war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

American Historical Association and Modern Language Association Memberships Stand for Palestinian Rights

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA) overwhelmingly voted in favor of a joint resolution condemning repression in the US and the silencing of academic dissent against the ongoing “US-sponsored Israeli genocide in Gaza,” which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.

BDS impacts in times of genocide

BNC

Today marks 19 years since the historic call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism, apartheid, and now genocide. Over the last 19 years, the BDS movement has built a massive network worldwide, supported by trade unions, farmers’ coalitions, and racial, social, gender and climate justice movements, together representing tens of millions.