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+articleTitle: Israel Drops “Jerusalem Condition” for Hosting Eurovision in First Milestone For Boycott Campaign
+pageTitle: Israel Drops “Jerusalem Condition” for Hosting Eurovision in First Milestone For Boycott Campaign | BDS Movement
+description: Desperate to keep Eurovision hosting in the face of growing boycott calls, the Israeli government has dropped the condition that the event must take...
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+Desperate to keep Eurovision hosting in the face of growing boycott calls, the Israeli government has dropped the condition that the event must take place in Jerusalem.
+This marks a striking failure in Israel’s PR efforts to assert its illegal claim over the city.  The BDS movement sees this as the first milestone in the campaign to boycott Eurovision 2019 if it is hosted by Israel while it continues its decades-old, grave violations of Palestinian human rights.
+The UN and the EU consider East Jerusalem as part of the occupied Palestinian territory and do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem.
+On June 7, Israeli culture minister Miri Regev insisted that “if [Eurovision] can’t be in Jerusalem – we shouldn’t host it.” Three days later, the Israeli government sidelined her and dropped the demand for holding Eurovision in Jerusalem, moving instead to an open tender process. Now Israel is hinting that Tel Aviv may be its best bet.
+William Lee Adams, a journalist and founder of wiwibloggs, a prominent Eurovision blog, told The Associated Press,  “There is a greater concern this year than any other year I can remember about the political backdrop surrounding Eurovision. Many Eurovision fans build their whole year around a trip to Eurovision, and just given the nature of what’s going on, their ideal has been tarnished.”
+The #BoycottEurovision2019 campaign continues to gather pace across Europe, with endorsement of major public figures and artists in Ireland, Iceland and beyond. We call on the EBU members to listen to the demands of this growing boycott movement and move the contest from Israel.
+The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. PACBI advocates for the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, given their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. Visit PACBI at https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi and follow us on Twitter @PACBI

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+articleTitle: BDS @ 14: Hope in the face of Israeli apartheid
+pageTitle: BDS @ 14: Hope in the face of Israeli apartheid | BDS Movement
+description: Today, Palestinians mark with a mix of alarm and hope the 14th anniversary of the BDS Call, launched by Palestinian society in 2005 in pursuit of...
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+Today, Palestinians mark with a mix of alarm and hope the 14th anniversary of the BDS Call, launched by Palestinian society in 2005 in pursuit of freedom, justice and equality.
+The growth of our popular resistance and the global, Palestinian-led BDS movement give us hope at a time when Israel’s far-right regime is intensifying its system of apartheid and crimes against our people, in open partnership with the anti-Palestinian Trump Administration, and with the complicity of the European Union and despotic Arab regimes.
+Israel’s ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people is most brutally manifested in its illegal siege and repeated massacres that have reduced Gaza into an uninhabitable ghetto, causing unspeakable suffering to its two million Palestinians.
+It is also evidenced in its continued denial of the internationally recognized right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees, its gradual ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians, particularly in Jerusalem, and its adoption of the so-called Jewish Nation-State Law, that makes its decades-old apartheid regime constitutional.
+Today also marks the 15th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s decision to condemn Israel’s wall in the occupied Palestinian territory as illegal and to remind all states of their obligation not to recognize, aid or assist Israel in its violations of international law, and instead act to end them. Fifteen years since, Israel continues to build its illegal settlements and the apartheid wall, which Trump uses as a model to justify his intended anti-immigrant wall along the Mexican border.
+But we are fighting back with the help of unions and social movements representing millions around the world which are joining the BDS movement. They recognize that Israel’s fanatic regime of oppression against Palestinians has become a model for racist, xenophobic and fascist political tendencies in Europe, the US, Brazil, India, the Philippines and beyond.
+#Apartheid was the second most popular hashtag trending during Eurovision in apartheid Tel Aviv, partly explaining the contest’s failure to attract more than 5,000, in contrast to the 40,000 to 50,000 that had been expected to show up.
+More than 100 commercial, cultural and sporting activities in Italy declared themselves free of Israeli apartheid in June, joining dozens of city councils and cultural spaces in the Spanish state and across Europe.
+The Argentinian national football team cancelled last year a friendly match with Israel after receiving appeals from Palestinians and international solidarity groups. During the same year, Natalie Portman, Shakira, Lana del Rey, among other prominent artists, cancelled engagements in Israel to protest its crimes against Palestinians. Dozens of DJs and other musicians joined the cultural boycott of Israel.
+Last week, more than 100 artists and cultural figures, including Hollywood names, condemned the McCarthyism of a German festival that cancelled a performance by rapper Talib Kweli because of his refusal to renounce his support for BDS.
+Two weeks ago, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) adopted the academic boycott of Israeli universities over their complicity in planning, implementing and justifying Israel’s grave human rights violations. BRISMES joins a number of American academic associations that have adopted the boycott in recent years. Israeli Apartheid Week 2019 was a big success, despite rising anti-democratic repression in the US and Europe.
+FNV, the largest Dutch trade union, with 1.1 million members, dropped Hewlett-Packard as a partner, over the complicity of HP-branded companies in Israel’s apartheid and violations of international law. The global online action #StopCemex reached over 1 million people, effectively transforming the annual propaganda effort of the cement giant into a powerful campaign against CEMEX’s complicity in Israel’s illegal settlements and wall.
+Pressure on governments continues. The National Congress of Chile overwhelmingly voted to ban products from illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land last year, while the campaign to ban settlement products from European markets is ongoing.
+Even major financial institutions are bowing to popular pressure. A fully owned subsidiary of the insurance giant AXA divested from Israeli drone manufacturer Elbit Systems, which sells weapons used by the Israeli military in attacks on Palestinians, following a pressure campaign that is continuing until AXA fully divests from Elbit and from Israeli banks that finance Israel’s settlement enterprise.
+This comes after HSBC confirmed late last year that it had fully divested from Elbit Systems. Now campaigners are working to ensure HSBC divests as well from Caterpillar, whose equipment is used regularly by Israel’s military and security forces for the demolition of Palestinian homes, schools, orchards, olive groves and other agricultural lands.
+In response to Israel’s ongoing Nakba, the most effective way to mark the BDS anniversary is by escalating our BDS campaigning through:
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+Advocating at all levels of government to cut military and security ties with Israel, and pressuring universities and research centers to end military/security research with Israel.
+Defending the right to advocate for Palestinian rights through the nonviolent tactics of BDS, as a matter of freedom of expression that should be protected in any democracy.
+Joining the growing boycott and/or divestment campaigns against complicit corporations, such as AXA, HP, CEMEX, HSBC and Puma, among others.
+Passing BDS resolutions in more churches, academic associations and cultural spaces.
+Promoting and respecting the Palestinian guidelines for ethical tourism and pressuring Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and Tripadvisor to end their complicity in normalizing Israel’s illegal settlements and other human rights violations.

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+articleTitle: The PLO calls on Eurovision organizers to not broadcast the contest in Israel's illegal settlements
+pageTitle: The PLO calls on Eurovision organizers to not broadcast the contest in Israel's illegal settlements | BDS Movement
+description: PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: “We call on the EBU to respect the Palestinian people’s rights and to not broadcast any Eurovision...
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+PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: “We call on the EBU to respect the Palestinian people’s rights and to not broadcast any Eurovision Song Contest events in Israel's illegal settlements”
+Giving Israel the privilege of hosting the 2019 Eurovision amounts to rewarding it for and helping it to conceal its decades-old military occupation and grave violations of Palestinian national and human rights.  At the very least, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) must ensure that Israel’s illegal settlements throughout the occupied Palestinian territory are strictly excluded from any broadcast of the Eurovision activities.
+The UN Security Council has repeatedly affirmed that Israel’s settlement enterprise constitutes a “flagrant violation” of international law and has “no legal validity,” and has rejected Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem as “illegal” and “as null and void.”  The European Union also has a long-standing policy that strongly opposes the illegal settlements.
+Therefore, the PLO, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, demands that the EBU oblige all of its members and associate members, especially Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, to not broadcast any Eurovision Song Contest events in Israel's illegal settlements, including those in occupied East Jerusalem. This is the minimum that the EBU must do to be in compliance with the obligations of non-state actors, including businesses and organizations, under international law and European policy, particularly given the unprecedented escalation of Israel’s unlawful unilateralism and criminal behavior.
+The recently adopted ‘Jewish Nation-State’ law, for instance, has given Israel license to apartheid, discrimination and ethnic cleansing at the expense of the Palestinian people. Such racist and prejudicial legislation is illegal by all standards of international law, democracy, humanity, justice, tolerance, and inclusion. The extremist government coalition in Israel has once again exposed its true character by demonstrating that it is bent on sustaining an official policy of ethnic purity and supremacy, thereby regulating the indigenous Palestinian citizens to an inferior-class status.
+Such legislation also affirms Israel’s willful intent, with blind support from the current US administration, to omit the Palestinian narrative, presence and continuity on the land, while actively eradicating the history, culture and identity of the Palestinian people. Despite all Israeli efforts at erasing our rights and our identity, the Palestinian people's determination to remain on our land and our commitment to the global principles of justice, freedom and self-determination are a remarkable tribute to Palestinian resilience and humanity.
+The EBU has an obligation to ensure that it does not provide a platform for the legitimization and/or normalization of the illegal system of colonization in Palestine. The EBU must also understand that it is legally accountable to the act of profiteering from this illegal system of colonization, directly or indirectly.
+I conclude by reiterating my call to the EBU to respect the Palestinian people’s rights, as recognized by the multilateral legal and political system, and to comply with its moral and legal obligations not to support, directly or indirectly, any violations of international law.

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+articleTitle: AXA, a smash hit with apartheid?
+pageTitle: AXA, a smash hit with apartheid? | BDS Movement
+description: AXA profits from war crimes and the crime against humanity of apartheid The French multinational insurance giant AXA continues to invest $15.6M in...
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+AXA profits from war crimes and the crime against humanity of apartheidThe French multinational insurance giant AXA continues to invest $15.6M in Israeli banks, Bank Hapoalim (US$ 6.53), Leumi Bank (US$ 5.63M), Israel Discount Bank (US$ 3.08M) and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (US$ 600K). These banks are all listed in the United Nations database of businesses involved in the illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory and are recognised as the backbone of Israel's illegal settlement project in the occupied Palestinian territory and the associated violations of international humanitarian law and Palestinian human rights.Since the start of 2023, the current far-right Israeli government has intensified land theft, annexation, ethnic cleansing, home demolitions and settlement expansion at an alarming rate. Israeli forces have killed at least 160 Palestinians, including 26 children, so far this year. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that, in the first quarter of 2023, Israeli authorities have demolished, forced local people to demolish or seized, 290 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As a result, 413 people, including 194 children, were displaced, and the livelihoods or access to services of over 11,000 others were affected.This is what AXA’s investments are helping in. AXA has quickly condemned and acted against the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and its devastating human consequences. Where is AXA’s responsibility towards Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid and occupation for decades? Aside from being morally reprehensible, AXA’s involvement in Israeli banks presents serious legal and financial risks to the company. Moody’s has recently downgraded Israel’s credit outlook, following a “deterioration of Israel’s governance” and a “weakening of institutional strength and policy predictability” which have led to months of economic instability. Add to this the unprecedented upheaval in Israel’s prized high-tech sector and an accelerating capital flight.Our answer: #BoycottAXA until #AXADivestMarking AXA Group's AGM, Palestine solidarity activists demonstrated creatively in front of the building where the “AGM ceremony” was taking place to increase pressure on AXA to divest from Israeli apartheid. Cheered by drivers and passers by, the one-day activist-singers danced to the rhythm of the famous song "Djadja" by the singer Aya Nakamura, with alternative lyrics written for the occasion. The demonstrators called on AXA to “get out of there,” warning that “one day there will be sanctions” on Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid regime and that will adversely affect AXA.Not even the best PR can whitewash AXA's support for apartheid. Campaigners are denouncing this, clients are unhappy, and over 10,000 people from around the world have pledged to #BoycottAXA until it divests from Israeli banks financing Israel’s illegal settlements. Since AXA actually decided to betray, once again, its social responsibilities, and not stop its investments in Israeli banks, we call on people worldwide to intensify our #BoycottAXA campaign until AXA fully ends its support to the Israeli apartheid regime.

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+articleTitle: Artistic Director of Portuguese National Theater Joins Cultural Boycott of Israel
+pageTitle: Artistic Director of Portuguese National Theater Joins Cultural Boycott of Israel | BDS Movement
+description: "I have decided not to present my show at the Israel Festival in June because I believe it is the only way to ensure that my artwork will not serve...
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+"I have decided not to present my show at the Israel Festival in June because I believe it is the only way to ensure that my artwork will not serve to justify or support a government that commits deliberate human rights violations and is currently violently attacking the Palestinian people," says the author, actor and director.
+Rodrigues says that although his decision as the artistic director of a national theater "could cause discomfort in the diplomatic plane”, "it was a well thought-out decision and I must, above all, obey my conscience. I have consulted with friends and colleagues whom I trust, and I have read statements by many intellectuals and artists, notably Israelis. Also I bear witness to the Israeli government’s terrible and violent conduct in this moment.”
+In his statement, Rodrigues says that although he “vehemently opposes the Israeli government’s oppression of the Palestinian people", he accepted the invitation to present the play 'By Heart' at Israel Festival in Jerusalem because it was "promoted by a non-profit organization that presents itself as an artistic project that promotes a plural and peaceful society."
+Rodrigues also says that he accepted the invitation believing "that the people of a country and its political administration are not the same thing.” He says "when I play shows in the US, for example, I do theater for Americans, but I am not subscribing to the Trump administration. If I were to be associated with the Trump administration, I would be against it."
+However, the director became aware "through the official communications of the festival," that this year's edition "marks the 70th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel."
+“The festival’s celebration of Israel’s 70th anniversary was not accompanied by a single word of criticism of Israel’s conduct vis-à-vis the Palestinian people during the last 70 years. This notice is of great political significance and I was not informed about it when I was invited to participate in the festival. I do not accept the use of my artistic work for political reasons without my consent,” reads the statement.
+In addition, "the festival prominently announces the support of various branches of the Israeli government, but remains silent about the unacceptable acts of violence ordered by the same government against the Palestinian people. This omission is deeply disturbing and I cannot accept it," he says.
+In addition to his decision to boycott Israel Festival, Rodrigues also decided to publicly "join the cultural boycott movement of Israel, with the conviction that global and collective pressure could produce results similar to the boycott of South Africa during apartheid.”
+'By Heart', a play in which Tiago Rodrigues teaches a poem to ten people of the public, without previous preparation while unraveling stories of his grandmother mixed with fiction and characters of books, was already presented in Rome (Italy), Trodheim (Norway), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Rennes and Marseille (France) and Athens (Greece).
+Translation from Lusa. Original here.

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+articleTitle: Women’s Studies Conference in Thailand Cuts Ties with Israeli Settlement University
+pageTitle: Women’s Studies Conference in Thailand Cuts Ties with Israeli Settlement University | BDS Movement
+description: The BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) Campaign Thailand and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Thailand welcome the principled decision by...
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+The BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) Campaign Thailand and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Thailand welcome the principled decision by Kasetsart University in Bangkok and the International Center for Research and Development (ICRD) to end all ties with Israeli settlement university Ariel for the upcoming International Conference on Gender & Women's Studies.
+BDS Campaign Thailand and PSC Thailand were informed a few weeks ago by some academics that Ariel University was a partner of the conference planned for 29th June to 30th June 2018 at the Kasetsart University.
+In addition to this official partnership, Professor Mally Shechory-Bitton, Vice Rector, Head of the Criminology Department of Ariel University, was announced as the “Academic Chair of the Conference” and also as the main “Keynote Speaker” and a member of the “International Scientific Committee” of the conference.
+With the support of the academics and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), BDS Campaign Thailand and PSC Thailand contacted the Kasetsart University authorities and the International Center for Research and Development (ICRD) to ask them to withdraw from the Ariel University partnership and to revoke the invitation to Professor Mally Shechory-Bitton. The BDS movement targets institutions over their complicity in Israel's oppression of Palestinians, not individuals. In the case of Professor Mally Shechory-Bitton, the call to withdraw her invitation was warranted due to her role as a representative of a settler-colonial college engaged in grave violations of international law.
+BDS Campaign Thailand and PSC Thailand raised the fact that Ariel University is an Israeli University located in an illegal Israeli colonial settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and hence built on stolen Palestinian land. According to international law, the transfer of population from the occupying state into the occupied territory and the creation of settlements constitute a war crime. Israeli settlements have repeatedly been declared illegal in international law by United Nations institutions such as the Security Council, the General Assembly and the International Court of Justice. Providing a venue to an event organized, even partly, by a settler university involved in war crimes would have implicated the Kasetsart University and the ICRD and deeply harmed their reputation.
+After an exchange of emails and letters, Kasetsart University and ICRD have decided to cancel the Ariel University partnership and the invitation to Professor Mally Shechory-Bitton. This wise decision has been taken promptly and is in line with International Law and the position of the State of Thailand that has constantly voted for the UN resolutions declaring illegal the Israeli settlements and has recognized Palestine as a sovereign State.

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+articleTitle: Growing Brazilian Political Party Reaffirms Support for BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights
+pageTitle: Growing Brazilian Political Party Reaffirms Support for BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights | BDS Movement
+description: March 7, 2018 — Last month, Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) passed a resolution reaffirming its support for the BDS movement for...
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+March 7, 2018 — Last month, Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) passed a resolution reaffirming its support for the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. PSOL is a growing progressive party in Brazil, with six representatives in the National Congress, nine in different state assemblies and 53 in municipal chambers. In 2017, it was the party with the largest number of new members in the country.
+The call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) measures in Brazil is particularly significant because the country is one of the largest buyers of Israeli weapons and military technologies in the world.
+PSOL’s resolution states that the party is committed to “intensifying efforts to place a military embargo on Israel” and references “technologies and techniques” exported by Israel to Brazil that “deepen repression, racism and militarization against the interests of the Brazilian people.”
+Pedro Charbel, Latin America Coordinator for the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which leads the global BDS movement for Palestinian rights, said:
+The BNC is heartened by the PSOL’s reaffirmation of its support for the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. The party has heard the call from Palestinian civil society for a meaningful and effective expression of solidarity, and it has responded affirmatively. We hope the party and all its members will keep working to advance BDS in Brazil.
+Brazilian authorities use Israeli armed vehicles to repress demonstrations in São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro’s deadly military police, notorious for targeting poor Black and Brown people, receives training from Israeli companies. Brazil spends millions on Israeli weapons and military technology.
+The Brazilian government should heed the call by Brazilians and Palestinians alike to stop trading in military weapons, technology and training with Israel.
+Whether in Rio’s favelas or in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, we are working together to defeat a global industry of injustice.
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+Juliano Medeiros, PSOL’s president, stated:
+PSOL’s resolution reaffirms the Brazilian Left’s long-standing commitment to the Palestinian people and to the pursuit of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
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+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

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+articleTitle: BDS impacts so far in 2021
+pageTitle: BDS impacts so far in 2021 | BDS Movement
+description: In a year marred by Israeli apartheid brutality and massacres, Palestinian hope and unity shine through. So too does the outpouring of global support...
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+In a year marred by Israeli apartheid brutality and massacres, Palestinian hope and unity shine through. So does the outpouring of global support from trade unions, academics, grassroots and civil society groups, artists, and individuals. The word on everyone’s tongue is ‘unprecedented!’ Never before has support for Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality been more popular and effective, proving that this time, #ItsDifferent! As the global, Palestinian-led BDS movement marks its 16th anniversary, let’s take a look back at 16 victories for Palestinian rights so far this year that the movement has impacted:Following years of #BDS campaigning, Ben & Jerry’s announced it will not renew its licensing agreement with its Israeli licensee and will end sales of its ice cream in Israel's illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land.Norway's largest pension fund, KLP, excluded 16 companies because of their links to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, KLP cited an “unacceptable risk that the excluded companies are contributing to the abuse of human rights in situations of war and conflict through their links with the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank”.A groundbreaking report by Human Rights Watch, titled ‘A Threshold Crossed’, detailed how Israel’s policies against millions of Palestinians amount to persecution and apartheid! Ten former presidents and more than 700 members of parliament, mayors, cultural figures, and academics from Latin America, Asia, and Africa called on the UN to recognise Israel as an apartheid State and to impose sanctions on it.Support our movement for freedom, justice, and equality to grow even further.Donate NowThe “friendly” football match between FC Barcelona and racist Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem, known for its fans’ “death to Arabs” chants, was cancelled. Premier League Qatar Sports Club pledge not to renew with PUMA amid local and international calls for boycott due to its compliance with the Israeli occupation.Lothian Pension Fund, Scotland’s second largest local authority pension fund, with 84,000 members and £8 billion in assets, divested from Israeli Bank Hapoalim.The Irish government became the first EU country to declare Israel’s building of illegal settlements on Palestinian land a ‘de facto annexation.'Over 350 academic departments, centres, unions, and societies, along with 23,000 academics, students, and university staff, signed statements in support of Palestinian rights, with many calling for BDS!Support Palestinian unity, dignity, and justice. Donate to the BDS movement now!Chilean parliament introduces a bill to ban the import of Israeli goods from illegal settlements. 39 labour organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of workers across Canada, signed an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging his government to suspend bilateral military trade with Israel immediately. The Canadian Labour Congress endorsed a ban on settlement goods, promoting divestment from Israeli military and security companies and calling on Canada to impose a #MilitaryEmbargo on Israel.The University of Brasilia and the University of Costa Rica passed historic resolutions declaring they would have no ties with companies complicit in Israel’s regime of military occupation, colonialism, and apartheid.Tweet our 16  BDS impacts from 2021 so far!The Student Association of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva became the first student association in Switzerland to endorse BDS and to declare itself an Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ).The City University of New York (CUNY) staff congress, representing 30,000 members, passed a resolution condemning Israel as a settler-colonial and apartheid state.More than 130 Mexican civil rights organizations demand that CEMEX end its complicity with Israeli apartheid.East Sussex Pension Fund divested from Elbit Systems, Israel’s most prominent private arms manufacturer.These 16 impacts are just a snapshot of where we stand today. Thanks to supporters like you, global support for our BDS movement is at an all-time high! Thank you for taking action and standing in solidarity with Palestinians everywhere. Our goal of freedom, justice, and equality is closer than ever!

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+articleTitle: Footballers condemn plans to hold U21 European championship in Israel
+pageTitle: Footballers condemn plans to hold U21 European championship in Israel | BDS Movement
+description: A group of Premier League footballers and players in other major European leagues have condemned plans to hold the Under-21 European championship in ...
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+A group of Premier League footballers and players in other major European leagues have condemned plans to hold the Under-21 European championship in Israel next year, saying it will be seen as a "reward" for this month's assault on Gaza in which young people playing football were killed when a sports stadium was bombed.
+The signatories, who include Eden Hazard of Chelsea, Abou Diaby of Arsenal and five Newcastle players – Papiss Cissé, Cheick Tioté, Sylvain Marveaux, Yohan Cabaye and Demba Ba – also criticised Israel's continued detention without charge or trial of two Palestinian footballers.
+Several former Premier League players have also signed the letter, including Didier Drogba and Frédéric Kanouté, both of whom now play in China. Players with QPR, Stoke, Blackburn and Ipswich are among the signatories along with footballers in France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Turkey.
+The statement roundly condemns the Israeli assault on Gaza, describing it as "yet another stain on the world's conscience" and expresses "solidarity with the people of Gaza who are living under siege and denied basic human dignity and freedom".
+It then focuses on the destruction of a football stadium which the Israeli military said had previously been used by Hamas as a rocket launching site but which at the time of the bombing was not.
+"We are informed that on 10 November 2012 the Israeli army bombed a sports stadium in Gaza, resulting in the death of four young people playing football, Mohamed Harara and Ahmed Harara, 16 and 17 years old; Matar Rahman and Ahmed al-Dirdissawi, 18 years old. We are also informed that since February 2012 two footballers with the club al-Amari, Omar Rowis, 23, and Mohammed Nemer, 22, have been detained in Israel without charge or trial," the statement read.
+"It is unacceptable that children are killed while they play football. Israel hosting the Uefa Under-21 European championship, in these circumstances, will be seen as a reward for actions that are contrary to sporting values."
+The Uefa Under-21 draw is scheduled to be held on Wednesday in Tel Aviv. But the choice of Israel for the competition is facing an increasingly strong challenge from pro-Palestinian activists who say that while the Jewish state has an equal place among footballing nations, it actively prevents the Palestinians from having one.
+Uefa's president, Michel Platini, has previously rejected pressure to move the competition out of Israel.
+Eric Cantona, formerly of Manchester United, wrote to Uefa earlier this year over the detention without trial of Palestinian footballers.
+"Racism, human rights abuses and gross violations of international law are daily occurrences in that country," he said. "It is time to end Israel's impunity and to insist on the same standards of equality, justice and respect for international law that we demand of other states."
+The Palestinian Football Association has long protested that it cannot operate freely because of the actions of the Israeli military. Its president, Jibril Rajoub, wrote to Platini earlier this year to say that Israel was in breach of Fifa regulations because of its treatment of Palestinian footballers.
+Platini was not sympathetic.
+"We cannot hold the Israel FA responsible for the political situation in the region or for legal procedures in place in its country. You know better than anyone that it is not by punishing people and isolating them that we achieve our aims. It is through dialogue that solutions are found," he replied.
+• This article was amended on 5 December 2012. The original incorrectly stated that players Yohan Cabaye and Didier Drogba were signatories to the statement. This has been corrected.
+Original statement with full list of signatures here.

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+articleTitle: European Parliament Members Urge World Cycling Body to Sanction Israeli Federation Over Human Rights Violations, Require Giro d’Italia to #RelocateTheRace
+pageTitle: European Parliament Members Urge World Cycling Body to Sanction Israeli Federation Over Human Rights Violations, Require Giro d’Italia to #RelocateTheRace | BDS Movement
+description: David Lappartient, President, Union Cycliste Internationale Rocco Cattaneo, President, Union Européenne de Cyclisme Members of the Board, UEC and...
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+David Lappartient, President, Union Cycliste Internationale
+Rocco Cattaneo, President, Union Européenne de Cyclisme
+Members of the Board, UEC and UCI
+Strasbourg, 08/02/2018
+Subject: UEC and UCI member involved in violations of international law
+Dear Mr. Lappartient and Mr. Cattaneo,
+We write as elected Members of the European Parliament who are committed to upholding the integrity of international sports to express our concern over involvement of a UEC member federation and a UCI Pro Continental team in violations of international law.
+The Israel Cycling Federation (ICF) has sponsored and held national league competitive races in illegal Israeli settlements and other areas under Israeli military occupation, infringing on UN-stipulated Palestinian rights.
+In May 2017, the ICF sponsored the Sovev Planet Jerusalem cycling event, whose route went through occupied East Jerusalem. Among the ICF’s national league competitive races is a multi-stage race held in the occupied Golan Heights in 2016 and 2017.
+In addition, the Israel Cycling Academy (ICA), a UCI Pro Continental team, also participates in races in the occupied Palestinian territory. The ICA is listed as a participating team in race through occupied East Jerusalem to the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev, to be held in late April 2018.
+Holding and sponsoring activities in these areas run counter to UEC’s commitment “to promote sporting ethics in general and especially in cycling” and to UCI’s responsibility to “safeguard the integrity and reputation of cycling throughout the world.” They also constitute clear violations of international law.
+The European Union and the international community recognize the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan Heights as occupied by Israel.
+United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 reaffirmed that Israeli settlements have no legal validity and constitute a “flagrant violation” under international law.
+Israel’s infrastructure of occupation, including military checkpoints, roadblocks, walls, exclusionary settlements and roads, denies Palestinians, including cyclists and other athletes, their right to freedom of movement. Israel makes no secret of its use of sporting events as a means to legitimize illegal occupation policies at the expense of Palestinian human rights.
+We are further concerned by actions of the organisers of the Giro d’Italia, a UCI World Tour event and premier European cycling race, that legitimise Israel’s unlawful annexation of East Jerusalem and claimed sovereignty over the entire city.
+UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947) established Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international regime. The UN has repeatedly reiterated its positions that "any actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal.”
+The actions of the Giro d’Italia have been strongly condemned by Palestinian officials, stating that the UCI World Tour event is “complicit in Israel’s military occupation and its egregious violations of international law, conventions and consensus.”
+More than 120 human rights organizations, trade unions, ethical tourism associations, sports and faith-based groups from over 20 countries issued an international call (Spanish, Dutch, Italian, French) urging premier cycling event Giro d’Italia to move its 2018 “Big Start” from Israel due to its grave and escalating violations of international law and Palestinians’ human rights.
+This complicity comes at a time when the US administration of Donald Trump has brazenly flouted international law and consensus, recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. One of Europe’s top sporting events, UCI World Tour race Giro d’Italia, is now in the awkward position of supporting a dangerously reckless move that has been met with universal condemnation the world over.
+UEC and UCI must uphold your collective responsibility to defend fair play and ensure the sport of cycling is not used to normalise and shield unlawful acts that deny an entire people their dignity and UN-sanctioned human rights.
+We urge you to act in accordance with the UCI Code of Ethics, the UEC Constitution and international law by imposing sanctions on the Israel Cycling Federation and the Israel Cycling Academy, including a possible suspension of membership, until such races in the occupied territories end in order to safeguard the sport of cycling and the rule of law.
+We further call on you to require the organisers of the Giro d’Italia to move the start of the 2018 race from Israel or face growing international protest against the involvement of a premier UCI race in grave violations of international law.
+Immediate action on your part will contribute to preserving the role of sports in the promotion of peace, harmony and respect for human rights.
+Yours sincerely,
+FORENZA Eleonora (GUE/NGL), ALBIOL GUZMAN Marina (GUE/NGL), ANDERSON Martina (GUE/NGL), AUKEN Margrete (Greens/EFA), BJORK Malin (GUE/NGL), CHILDERS Nessa (S&D), COFFERATI Sergio Gaetano (S&D), EVANS Jill (Greens/EFA), FAJON Tanja (S&D), FERREIRA João (GUE/NGL), FLANAGAN Luke Ming (GUE/NGL), GONZALEZ PENAS Tania (GUE/NGL), KOULOGLOU Stelios (GUE/NGL), LAMBERT Jean (Greens/EFA), LAMBERTS Philippe (Greens/EFA), LE HYARIC Patrick (GUE/NGL), LOPEZ BERMEJO Paloma (GUE/NGL), PIMENTA LOPES João (GUE/NGL), SCHLEIN Elly (S&D), SENRA RODRIGUEZ Maria Lidia (GUE/NGL), SENRA RODRÍGUEZ Maria Lidia (GUE/NGL), SOLTES Igor (Greens/EFA), STAES Bart (Greens/EFA), SYLIKIOTIS Neoklis (GUE/NGL), TAYLOR Keith (Greens/EFA), URBAN CRESPO Miguel (GUE/NGL), VAJGL Ivo (ALDE), VALLINA DE LA NOVAL Angela Rosa (GUE/NGL), VIEGAS Miguel (GUE/NGL)

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+articleTitle: Dublin Becomes First European Capital to Endorse BDS for Palestinian Rights & Drops Hewlett Packard for Its Complicity in Israeli Apartheid
+pageTitle: Dublin Becomes First European Capital to Endorse BDS for Palestinian Rights & Drops Hewlett Packard for Its Complicity in Israeli Apartheid | BDS Movement
+description: April 11, 2018 — On Monday Dublin became the first European capital to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian...
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/news/dublin-becomes-first-european-capital-endorse-bds-palestinian-rights-drops-hewlett-packard-its
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+April 11, 2018 — On Monday Dublin became the first European capital to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. Citing Israel’s “inhumane blockade and siege of Gaza,” the Dublin City Council promised to discontinue all its business contracts with the BDS-targeted Hewlett Packard (HP) branded companies and spin-offs, including DXC Technology, given their complicity in Israel’s egregious violations of Palestinian human rights.
+Yesterday, Israel tried unsuccessfully to bar entry to Dublin’s mayor as he was on his way to attend meetings in Ramallah. Israeli authorities mistook his title for his name, drawing ridicule from Palestinian and other social media activists. Mayor Mícheál MacDonncha is currently  meeting with Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory.
+Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been peacefully protesting the siege and demanding the UN-stipulated right of Palestinian refugees, who constitute the majority in Gaza, to return to their homes of origin from which they had been forcibly displaced.
+Abdulrahman Abunahel, Gaza coordinator for the BNC, the largest Palestinian coalition which leads the global BDS movement for Palestinian rights, said:
+Dublin has offered the strongest response to date to Israel’s latest massacre against unarmed Palestinian protesters in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. This is the most impressive win yet for the BDS movement in 2018.
+The people of Ireland, with their long legacy of struggle against colonialism, have shown that while governments in the US and Europe are deeply complicit in Israel’s crimes of occupation and apartheid, people of conscience stand on the right side of history, against oppression and for freedom, justice, equality and human dignity.
+After 70 years of dispossession, 50 years of military rule, and the devastating 10 year siege that suffocates us in the world’s largest open-air prison, we need such meaningful solidarity, especially in the form of BDS. In just the last two weeks, the Israeli military, following a shoot-to-kill-or-maim policy, has already killed 30 Palestinian civilians in Gaza and injured over 3,000.
+By excluding HP companies, the Dublin City Council is taking an important step towards ending security and military ties with Israel and corporations that enable its system of oppression. The most important demand raised by Palestinians in response to Israel’s latest massacre is imposing a military embargo similar to the one enacted by the United Nations against apartheid South Africa.
+Thanks to Dubliners, Irish supporters of Palestinian rights elsewhere, and growing numbers of BDS campaigners around the world, we Palestinians are in our darkest hours assured that we are far from alone, and that together we can bend the arc of history towards justice.
+
+This victory for Palestinian rights follows on the heels of two other recent victories in Ireland. Earlier this month, the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), with over 40,000 members, passed a resolution which mirrors the 800,000 strong Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) position on Palestine by fully supporting the BDS movement and its aspirations. And less than a week ago, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), representing 374,000 students in higher education, voted to do the same.
+Just today, Cork, Ireland’s third largest city, called on the Irish government to “condemn” the “recent massacre” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza by the Israeli military and to “take diplomatic action against Israel by expelling a number of its diplomats and recognise the state of Palestine.”
+Hewlett Packard’s violations of Palestinian human rights have been well documented. Aside from providing services and technology to the Israeli army that maintains Israel’s military occupation and siege of Gaza, and biometric technology that enables the Israeli government to control and enforce its system of racial segregation against Palestinians, HP has been deeply complicit in enabling the Israeli prison system, notorious for torture and other human rights abuses.
+HP has already suffered financial and reputational damage from BDS campaigns for Palestinian human rights. Several Christian denominations in the US have already divested from HP at the national level, and 26 Christian congregations across the country have committed to being HP-Free churches which refuse to buy any HP products. The campaign against HP has attracted support from faith communities, student governments and trade unions across the world. Under this pressure, HP has conducted a corporate re-shuffling that renders the companies involved no less complicit or subject to BDS campaigns.
+With this decision, Dublin joins dozens of local authorities across the Spanish state, Norway, Sweden, France, the UK, Belgium and Australia that have passed resolutions supporting BDS or pledged to avoid doing business with companies targeted by the BDS movement due to their complicity in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.
+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

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+articleTitle: FIFA Drops Its Mask, Declares Itself a “Complicit Organization Welcoming Israel’s Illegal Settlement Clubs”
+pageTitle: FIFA Drops Its Mask, Declares Itself a “Complicit Organization Welcoming Israel’s Illegal Settlement Clubs” | BDS Movement
+description: Today at its meeting in Kolkata, India, the FIFA Council adopted a position allowing football clubs in illegal Israeli settlements to continue to be...
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+Today at its meeting in Kolkata, India, the FIFA Council adopted a position allowing football clubs in illegal Israeli settlements to continue to be a welcome part of the world football organization, stating it would “refrain from imposing any sanctions or other measures.”
+The decision comes days after Tokyo Sexwale, chair of the FIFA Israel Palestine Monitoring Committee, made anti-Palestinian comments justifying Israel’s crimes against Palestinians and apartheid policies. Ahead of the Council meeting, South African civil society organizations and faith based groups demanded Sexwale’s resignation and for the committee to be dissolved.
+Stephanie Adam of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said:
+Today the FIFA Council shredded the organization’s statutes and declared itself a complicit organization that welcomes Israel’s illegal settlement clubs. FIFA is intent on providing material support for Israel’s violations of international law amounting to war crimes against one of its own member associations.
+After over two years of deliberate delaying tactics, FIFA dropped its mask. It’s clear the system is rigged.
+Palestinians are proud of the deep solidarity of the absolute majority in South Africa for our struggle for freedom, justice and equality. We salute and support the call from our South African partners for Sexwale to resign. Not only is Sexwale’s failure to stand up for Palestinians’ right to play football there for all to see, he has also made outrageously anti-Palestinian statements justifying Israeli colonial racism and apartheid, making him wholly unfit for the job.
+Sexwale has shamefully parroted the racist and colonial Israeli narrative of a “small country” in a hostile Arab environment and expressed concern for armed Israeli soldiers at military checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territory who may “over-react” by killing or injuring young Palestinians, including footballers.
+Sexwale must resign immediately before his already sullied reputation becomes his legacy. It is obvious that his anti-Palestinian comments have dramatically eroded his credibility and support base in his own country, South Africa.
+It’s time to dissolve the farcical “monitoring committee,” itself instituted well over two years ago in order to shield Israel from due accountability measures by FIFA. The committee has since repeatedly delayed any decision despite this being a cut and dried case of the Israel Football Association violating international law and FIFA statutes. For all the deceptive talk of keeping politics out of football, Sexwale and FIFA have done nothing but politicize something that could not be clearer.
+The FIFA Council may have unceremoniously declared the matter “closed,” but civil society groups will be more keen than ever to keep it open and to heighten the pressure.
+
+Red Card Israeli Racism UK sent a letter to all FIFA council members prior to the meeting protesting Israel’s ongoing repression of Palestinian football, including preventing travel for players in the Palestine Cup, impounding equipment imported from abroad and attempts to coerce a player into becoming an informer for Israel’s security services.

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+articleTitle: Glasgow City Council Concedes to Supporters of Palestinian Rights, Vows to Refrain From Sponsoring Future Arms Fairs
+pageTitle: Glasgow City Council Concedes to Supporters of Palestinian Rights, Vows to Refrain From Sponsoring Future Arms Fairs | BDS Movement
+description: July 27, 2018 — Glasgow City Council has responded to months of popular protest against its decision to sponsor the Undersea Defence Technology...
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+July 27, 2018 — Glasgow City Council has responded to months of popular protest against its decision to sponsor the Undersea Defence Technology (UDT) conference, a military fair featuring Israeli weapons manufacturers notorious for violating Palestinian human rights. The Council vowed to refuse to sponsor any military fairs in the future and promised the city would “reexamine its guidelines” to ensure they reflect that “Glasgow is a human rights respecting city.”
+This important concession by the Glasgow City Council was won by a coalition of human rights defenders organized under the banner “Sink the Glasgow Arms Fair.” Organizing groups included the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Scotland Against Militarism and the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. The fair took place in Glasgow late last month.
+The lead sponsors of the arms fair were BAE Systems and Babcock, the two main arms manufacturers responsible for renewing the UK’s Trident program for the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons. Glasgow declared itself a nuclear free council in December 2017.
+The fair listed “Israel Defense,” a media enterprise that promotes Israel’s arms industry, as an official media partner. Israeli company DSIT Solutions, which facilitates Israel’s brutal and illegal naval siege on Gaza, was also present at the fair. Israeli arms companies regularly market their weapons as “tested in combat” or “field tested,” which means they are tested on Palestinian people and then exported to facilitate repression by military and police in the rest of the world.
+The Backstory:
+The Glasgow City Council, currently led by the Scottish National Party (SNP),  first responded to protests by defending its decision to host the Undersea Defence Technology fair in June 2018. (The Council had placed a bid to host the fair under the previous Labour administration, but was awarded the bid in July 2017, under SNP leadership.)
+After more than two months of public protest and just one week before the arms fair took place, the Council removed the “People Make Glasgow” city logo from the fair’s website.
+While the City Council may have tried to quell protest by withdrawing its logo, campaigners discovered that the City Council was still backing the arms fair. Arms fair organizers still hosted a VIP event in a  a City Council-owned building as part of their program.
+In response, over 2,000 people of conscience from Scotland and around the world sent an email to Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, asking her to end the council’s support for a military fair featuring Israeli weapons manufacturers notoriously responsible for gross human rights violations. The email specifically asked Aitken and the council to “not promote Israeli apartheid killing machines.”
+Sink the Glasgow Arms Fair coalition and people across Scotland joined protest actions outside the arms fair and made clear that the fair was not welcome.  They criticized the spokespersons for the Trident nuclear program and the fair’s student recruitment session, and drew attention to the Israeli weaponry on display which Israel uses to maintain its siege of nearly 2 million Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
+On the last day of the fair, David Mcdonald, Glasgow City Council’s deputy leader, announced that the Council would no longer sponsor arms fairs in the future. He confirmed that he asked the Convention Bureau, which organizes the city’s conferences, to “reexamine its guidelines” so that they reflects that “Glasgow is a human rights respecting city and also matches the values and vision set out in the city charter.”
+Where Things Stand: Activists welcome concession, maintain pressure on Glasgow City Council to end ties to companies complicit in violating human rights
+Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign chair Sofiah MacLeod welcomed Councillor Mcdonald’s statement and added that SPSC will work with other coalition members to ensure the City Council keeps its pledge.
+MacLeod also said that public pressure on the Glasgow City Council and Councillors will continue because the Council still administers the Strathclyde Pension Fund, known to invest in weapons manufacturers  and other companies complicit in violations of Palestinian rights.
+SPSC is working with Unison Scotland and Scottish Friends of Palestine on the Time To Divest campaign to urge Scottish local authority pension funds to divest from companies complicit in violating Palestinian human rights. These include Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, which finances the construction of illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land, and HP/DXC.
+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.
+Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) is an extension to the Palestinian struggle for freedom against Israel's programme of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine. SPSC  campaigns to build effective solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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+articleTitle: Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, Don’t Pedal for Israeli Apartheid
+pageTitle: Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, Don’t Pedal for Israeli Apartheid | BDS Movement
+description: Français  Italiano As Israel’s apartheid regime, under its most racist, fundamentalist government ever, ramps up its violent oppression...
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+(Français, Italiano below the Engish)As Israel’s apartheid regime, under its most racist, fundamentalist government ever, ramps up its violent oppression of Palestinians, two of the world’s top cycling races are going out of their way to help Israel sportswash its crimes.The Giro d’Italia (6-28 May) and the Tour de France (1-23 July) have extended special “wildcard” invitations to the Israeli government-sponsored cycling team.The Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France are shamefully rewarding Israel for its ongoing killing spree of Palestinians, government ministers inciting to murder, support for settler militias carrying violent pogroms in Palestinian towns, demolitions of Palestinian homes and forced expulsion of Palestinians from our land.As documented by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Israel is guilty of the crime against humanity of apartheid. Its ever-expanding illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land constitute a war crime under international law.The Israeli cycling team, created by a Canadian-Israeli billionaire, has focused more on its stated goal of sportswashing Israel’s decades-long regime of military occupation and apartheid than cycling. Team Apartheid Israel fell so low in the rankings that it was relegated from the World Tour level, ineligible for automatic participation in cycling’s Grand Tours, and needed special invitations.Initially, the Israeli team was also ineligible for World Tour stage races beyond the top races. However, UCI, the international body governing cycling that claims to be a “politically neutral organization,” shamefully made a last minute change, in what has been termed the “Israel rule,” that will “gift” Team Apartheid Israel automatic invitations to these races.In a show of typical Western hypocrisy, UCI immediately sanctioned Russia just days into its illegal aggression against Ukraine, suspending all Russian and Belarussian teams and banning all UCI events in Russia and Belarus while not only closing an eye to Israel’s decades-long record of grave crimes against Palestinians but rewriting its own rules to single out Israel for its generous rewards.This is not the first time UCI, the Giro d’Italia, and the Tour de France have rendered themselves complicit in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights. We salute the many groups and cycling fans in Italy and France that have organized protests over the participation of Team Apartheid Israel along the routes of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France.This year, with UCI and the Grand Tour organizers going to such lengths to sportswash Israel’s violent apartheid regime, at a time when Palestinians are facing increased violence as we prepare to mark 75 years of Israeli oppression, ethnic cleansing and colonialism robbing us of land, life, and dignity, we call for more protests than ever along the race routes.As Palestinians, we refuse to remain silent until we reach our finish line of freedom, justice and equality for all. Join us and help ensure that UCI, the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France get the message: there is no place in cycling for war crimes and crimes against humanity.For more information on Giro d’Italia and Tour de France mobilizations, contact us at [email protected]  Giro d’Italia et Tour de France, ne pédalez pas pour l’apartheid israélienAlors que le régime apartheid israélien, dirigé par le gouvernement le plus raciste et le plus fondamentaliste qu’il ait jamais connu, intensifie son oppression violente des Palestiniens, deux des plus grandes courses cyclistes du monde font tout leur possible pour aider Israël à dissimuler ses crimes dans le cadre de compétitions sportives.Le Giro d’Italia (6-28 mai) et le Tour de France (1-23 juillet) ont adressé des invitations spéciales à l’équipe de cyclisme parrainée par le gouvernement israélien.Le Giro d’Italia et le Tour de France récompensent honteusement Israël pour sa folie meurtrière à l’égard des Palestiniens, ses ministres incitant au meurtre, son soutien aux milices de colons se livrant à de violents pogroms dans les villes palestiniennes, les démolitions de maisons palestiniennes et l’expulsion forcée des Palestiniens de notre terre.Comme le montrent Amnesty International et Human Rights Watch, Israël est coupable du crime contre l’humanité qu’est l’apartheid. Ses colonies illégales en expansion constante sur des terres palestiniennes volées constituent un crime de guerre au regard du droit international.L’équipe de cyclisme israélienne, créée par un milliardaire israélo-canadien, s’est davantage concentrée sur son objectif déclaré de blanchir, par le sport, le régime d’occupation militaire et d’apartheid israélien, qui dure depuis des décennies, que sur le cyclisme. Le régime d’apartheid israélien est tombé si bas dans les classements qu’il a été relégué du World Tour. Il n’est plus éligible pour une participation automatique aux grands tours de cyclisme et a besoin d’invitations spéciales.Initialement, l’équipe israélienne n’était pas non plus autorisée à participer aux courses par étapes du World Tour au-delà des courses de haut niveau. Cependant, l’UCI, l’organisme international régissant le cyclisme qui prétend être une « organisation politiquement neutre », a honteusement apporté un changement de dernière minute, dans ce qui a été appelé la « règle israélienne », qui « offrira » au régime d’apartheid israélien des invitations automatiques à ces courses.Dans une démonstration d’hypocrisie typiquement occidentale, l’UCI a immédiatement sanctionné la Russie quelques jours seulement après son agression illégale contre l’Ukraine, suspendant toutes les équipes russes et biélorusses et interdisant tous les événements de l’UCI en Russie et en Biélorussie, alors que non seulement elle ferme les yeux sur les graves crimes commis par Israël contre les Palestiniens depuis des décennies, mais qu’elle réécrit ses propres règles pour désigner Israël comme bénéficiaire de ses généreuses récompenses.Ce n’est pas la première fois que l’UCI, le Giro d’Italia et le Tour de France se rendent complices du déni des droits des Palestiniens par Israël. Nous saluons les nombreux groupes et fans de cyclisme en Italie et en France qui ont organisé des protestations contre la participation du régime d’apartheid israélien le long des routes du Giro d’Italia et du Tour de France.Cette année, alors que l’UCI et les organisateurs du Grand Tour se donnent tant de mal pour blanchir sportivement le violent régime d’apartheid israélien, à un moment où les Palestiniens sont confrontés à une violence accrue alors que nous nous préparons à marquer 75 ans d’oppression israélienne, de nettoyage ethnique et de colonialisme nous privant de notre terre, de notre vie et de notre dignité, nous appelons à plus de protestations que jamais le long des itinéraires de course.En tant que Palestiniens, nous refuserons de rester silencieux tant que nous n’aurons pas atteint notre propre ligne d’arrivée, à savoir la liberté, la justice et l’égalité pour tous. Rejoignez-nous et veillez à ce que l’UCI, le Giro d’Italia et le Tour de France reçoivent le message suivant : il n’y a pas de place dans le cyclisme pour les crimes de guerre et les crimes contre l’humanité.Pour plus d’informations sur les mobilisations du Giro d’Italia et du Tour de France, contactez-nous à l’adresse suivante : [email protected]https://www.bdsfrance.org/giro-ditalia-et-tour-de-france-ne-pedalez-pas-pour-lapartheid-israelien/Giro d'Italia e Tour de France, non pedalate per l'apartheid israelianaMentre il regime israeliano di apartheid, con il governo più razzista e fondamentalista di sempre, intensifica la sua violenta oppressione dei palestinesi, due delle principali gare ciclistiche del mondo stanno facendo di tutto per aiutare Israele a ripulire i suoi crimini.Il Giro d'Italia (6-28 maggio) e il Tour de France (1-23 luglio) hanno rivolto speciali inviti “jolly” alla squadra ciclistica sponsorizzata dal governo israeliano.Il Giro d'Italia e il Tour de France stanno vergognosamente premiando Israele per la sua continua follia omicida di palestinesi, mentre ministri del governo incitano all'omicidio, sostengono le milizie di coloni che portano avanti pogrom violenti nelle città palestinesi, con la demolizione di case palestinesi e l'espulsione forzata di palestinesi dalla nostra terra.Come documentato da Amnesty International e Human Rights Watch , Israele è colpevole del crimine contro l'umanità costituito dall’apartheid. I suoi insediamenti illegali in continua espansione su terra palestinese rubata costituiscono un crimine di guerra ai sensi del diritto internazionale.La squadra ciclistica israeliana, creata da un miliardario canadese-israeliano, si è concentrata più sul suo obiettivo dichiarato di ripulire il regime decennale di occupazione militare e apartheid di Israele che sul ciclismo. Il Team Apartheid Israel è sceso così in basso nella classifica che è stato retrocesso dal livello World Tour e quindi giudicato non idoneo alla partecipazione automatica ai Grandi Giri del ciclismo e ha necessita di inviti speciali.Inizialmente la squadra israeliana era giudicata non ammissibile anche per le gare a tappe del World Tour oltre che per le gare principali. Tuttavia, l'UCI, l'organismo internazionale che governa il ciclismo e afferma di essere una "organizzazione politicamente neutrale", ha vergognosamente apportato una modifica dell'ultimo minuto, con quella che è stata definita la "regola israeliana", che "riserva" al Team Apartheid Israel inviti automatici a queste competizioni.In uno spettacolo degno della peggior ipocrisia occidentale, l'UCI ha immediatamente sanzionato la Russia a pochi giorni dall'inizio della sua aggressione illegale contro l'Ucraina, sospendendo tutte le squadre russe e bielorusse e vietando tutti gli eventi UCI in Russia e Bielorussia, quindi non solo chiudendo un occhio sulla pluridecennale sequenza di gravi crimini di Israele contro i palestinesi, ma riscrivendo le proprie regole per designare Israele come beneficiario delle sue generose ricompense.Non è la prima volta che UCI, il Giro d'Italia e il Tour de France si rendono complici nel negare i diritti dei palestinesi da parte di Israele. Salutiamo i tanti gruppi e appassionati di ciclismo in Italia e in Francia che hanno organizzato proteste per la partecipazione del Team Apartheid Israel lungo i percorsi del Giro d'Italia e del Tour de France.Quest'anno, con l'UCI e gli organizzatori del Grand Tour che fanno di tutto per mascherare il violento regime di apartheid israeliano, in un momento in cui i palestinesi stanno affrontando una crescente violenza e proprio quando ci prepariamo a celebrare 75 anni di oppressione, pulizia etnica e colonialismo israeliani che ci derubano della terra, della vita e della dignità, chiediamo che si manifesti e si protesti più possibile lungo i percorsi di gara.Come palestinesi, ci rifiutiamo di rimanere in silenzio finché non raggiungeremo il traguardo di libertà, giustizia e uguaglianza per tutti. Unisciti a noi e contribuisci a garantire che l'UCI, il Giro d'Italia e il Tour de France ricevano il messaggio: non c'è posto nel ciclismo per crimini di guerra e crimini contro l'umanità.Per maggiori informazioni sulle mobilitazioni del Giro d'Italia e del Tour de France, contattaci a: [email protected]https://bdsitalia.org/index.php/campagne/altre-campagne/sportivo/2763-giro-tour-de-france

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+articleTitle: Israeli Government-Linked Creative Community for Peace’s Confidential Report #CCFPfraud
+pageTitle: Israeli Government-Linked Creative Community for Peace’s Confidential Report #CCFPfraud | BDS Movement
+description: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights continues to make long strides in effectively challenging Israel’s regime...
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+The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights continues to make long strides in effectively challenging Israel’s regime of occupation and apartheid.
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+The cultural boycott of Israel is supported by thousands of artists around the world, with pledges to uphold it in the UK, US, Montreal, Ireland, South Africa, Latin America and elsewhere recently bolstered by the artist-led #DJsForPalestine and #ArtistsForPalestine initiatives.
+The far-right Israeli government and its lobby organizations have devoted tens of millions of dollars in the attempt to repress the growing Palestinian-led BDS movement.
+One such organization is Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), which carefully hides from the artists it approaches that it is simply a front group for StandWithUs, an Israel lobby organization. StandWithUs has close ties to the Israeli government. Tax and registration documents prove that StandWithUs and CCFP are a single non-profit organization.
+CCFP claims to advocate for “building bridges”, even as it echoes the Israeli government’s racist, dehumanizing propaganda. As Jewish Voice for Peace recently said:
+“Artists who oppose racism and support justice for all people should steer clear of CCFP’s anti-Palestinian lobbying and propaganda efforts.”
+In a leaked, confidential report, CCFP made a series of frank admissions about the inspiring growth of the BDS human rights movement, as covered by The Hollywood Reporter.
+Parts of the confidential report are now available to see for the first time. Share them to help expose CCFP’s fraudulent attempts to manipulate artists and the public!
+If you are an artist, manager, agent or label rep and you would like to discuss Creative Community for Peace, please email [email protected] and we’ll get back to you.
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+articleTitle: Pedaling for Palestinian Rights: 20 Cities Around the World demand UCI and Giro d’Italia #RelocateTheRace
+pageTitle: Pedaling for Palestinian Rights: 20 Cities Around the World demand UCI and Giro d’Italia #RelocateTheRace | BDS Movement
+description: Cyclists and supporters of Palestinian human rights took to the streets in 20 cities across the world on Saturday, March 10, 2018 for the #...
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+Cyclists and supporters of Palestinian human rights took to the streets in 20 cities across the world on Saturday, March 10, 2018 for the #RelocateTheRace International Day of Action.
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+Bike rallies and actions called on Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body of cycling to relocate the start of the famed Giro d’Italia cycling event, set for May 4 in Jerusalem. Participants highlighted Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights, including freedom of movement, and its use of the race to sport-wash its regime of occupation and apartheid.
+The day of action started in Palestine, with dozens of young Palestinian men and women participating in a “Counter Giro” race in the occupied West Bank from Ramallah to Qalandia, a locality confined by Israel’s apartheid wall and military checkpoints. The race was part of the events for Israeli Apartheid Week and highlighted Israel’s ongoing destruction of Palestinian homes and farms.
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+Qalandia, remains of a Palestinian home demolished by Israel. In 2016, Israel demolished 33 homes in this village alone.
+In Switzerland, cyclists pedaled to UCI headquarters in Aigle. Despite numerous letters and appeals to move the race start, citing UCI’s own ethics code, the organization has failed to take action to prevent professional cycling from being complicit in Israel’s violations of international law.
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+No Giro d'Italia in #Apartheid Israel! #RelocateTheRace #DéplacezLaCourse Short video of our protest last Saturday in front of the headquarter of the world cycling organisation UCI.
+Posted by BDS Switzerland on Monday, March 12, 2018
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+In Kuala Lumpur, more than 50 people, young and old, individuals and families, students and cyclists, gathered on Saturday morning to call on the Malaysian Cycling Federation, a UCI board member, to take steps to ensure UCI relocates the race.
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+Protests were held in more than 10 cities across Italy. In Rome, dozens of cyclists gathered for a parody award ceremony near the Colosseum, where the Giro d’Italia finish line will be. Italian electric utility ENEL was “honored” as Best Sponsor of Israeli Apartheid. UCI was given the Ostrich Award for keeping its head in the sand. Giro organizers, who received a reported 10 million euro from Israel, were honored as Best Profiteers From Human Rights Violations. The Israeli cycling team was honored for Best Cycling Cover-up of Israeli Crimes.
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+In Sicily, activists held a public assembly in Catania to prepare for protests at the Giro d’Italia. The first Italian stages of the race will be on the island. Bike rallies were also held in Bologna, Milan, Naples, Ravenna, Torino, Udine, Vicenza and Venice.
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+In the Netherlands, roughly 80 cyclists participated in an “Alternative Giro” in The Hague, pedaling from Parliament past the Peace Palace and the International Criminal Court, noting Israel’s long record of war crimes and human rights violations.
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+In Manchester, cyclists from The Big Ride for Palestine pedalled to the British Cycling Federation Headquarters and the Italian Consulate, chanting “Save face! Relocate the race!”
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+In France, cyclists in Paris rode from the Tour Eiffel to French Giro broadcaster L'Equipe. Bike rallies were also held in Saint-Étienne and in Marseilles, where activists distributed over 1500 leaflets.
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+In Belgium, activists in Leuven distributed bike flags reading "Ride for peace and freedom, not for Israeli apartheid" to an incredibly responsive public, who objected to the abuse of cycling to hide Israel’s human rights abuses.
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+Israel has long borrowed from the playbook of the apartheid regime in South Africa, using sports to mask its decades-long military occupation and apartheid regime.
+Supporters of Palestinian rights around the world are committed to continue pressuring professional cycling until it ends its partnership with the Israeli government, allowing one of cycling’s top races to be exploited for political means.

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+articleTitle: Documents Prove “Creative Community for Peace” is Front for Right-Wing Israel Lobby Group “StandWithUs”
+pageTitle: Documents Prove “Creative Community for Peace” is Front for Right-Wing Israel Lobby Group “StandWithUs” | BDS Movement
+description: Support is growing for the Palestinian civil society call for a boycott to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian human rights. Artists such as...
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+Support is growing for the Palestinian civil society call for a boycott to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian human rights.
+Artists such as Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Tunde Adebimpe, Peter Gabriel, Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, and Mark Ruffalo are taking courageous public stands for freedom, justice and equality, and refusing to cross our nonviolent boycott picket line. Israel’s repressive, right-wing government and its allies are desperately attempting to repress support for Palestinian rights.
+As part of those attempts, a group called “Creative Community for Peace” (CCFP) is lobbying artists to perform in Israel. CCFP claims to be an entertainment industry organization advocating for artistic freedom and building bridges.
+But CCFP carefully hides from artists that it is actually a front group for StandWithUs (SWU), a long-established right-wing, anti-Palestinian, pro-Israeli settler lobby group with long-time ties to Israel’s far-right government.
+Registration and tax documents show that StandWithUs and Creative Community for Peace are simply alternate names for a single IRS-registered non-profit, “Israel Emergency Alliance.” CCFP staff works from StandWithUs’ longstanding LA office, and SWU manages many CCFP functions. CCFP and SWU founders and board leaders, David and Esther Renzer, are married.
+Examples of SWU and CCFP‘s history of partnership with the Israeli government include convening an organizing meeting with Israeli government officials and music industry executives, and producing a pro-settler video series with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. SWU even announced they were awarded a grant from Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office.
+SWU and CCFP also regularly echo the Israeli government’s racist positions, dehumanizing all Palestinians. CCFP never speaks out against Israel’s growing repression of both Palestinian and Jewish Israeli cultural workers who are critical of the State.
+CCFP is no supporter of racial and social justice. A key SWU partner is Christians United for Israel (CUFI), headed by the homophobic, racist and sexist pastor John Hagee. In a confidential, leaked 2018 report, CCFP depicted movements for social justice as a dire threat to Israel. It claimed that support for intersectionality - which attempts to identify how interlocking systems of power impact those who are most marginalized - is allowing Palestinian rights groups, to “hijack other political movements, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and feminist groups in particular.”
+In their confidential report, CCFP did accurately characterize the boycott movement as “constantly growing and changing, developing new and innovative tactics to reach artists.”
+Artists who support justice for all and oppose racism in all forms should be aware of CCFP’s deception and steer clear of its lobbying agenda.

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+articleTitle: Palestinians Warmly Welcome Gilberto Gil’s Cancellation of Tel Aviv Gig Following Israel’s Massacre in Gaza
+pageTitle: Palestinians Warmly Welcome Gilberto Gil’s Cancellation of Tel Aviv Gig Following Israel’s Massacre in Gaza | BDS Movement
+description: May 21, 2018, Occupied Palestine —  Palestinians have warmly received the news of Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil’s cancellation of his...
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+May 21, 2018, Occupied Palestine —  Palestinians have warmly received the news of Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil’s cancellation of his performance in Tel Aviv, scheduled for July 4, in response to what Palestinians and some international observers have termed as Israel’s “massacre” of over 100 civilians in Gaza over the past few weeks.
+Gil, who has won multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards and has served as minister of culture in Brazil, is widely regarded as among Latin America’s most prominent musicians.
+In its attempt to suppress the overwhelmingly peaceful “Great Return March” by tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has implemented what Amnesty International describes as a shoot-to-kill-or-maim policy. As a result, more than 100 Palestinian civilians have been killed since March 30 and more than 10,000 injured, many by live ammunition. Among those killed were at least 12 Palestinian children who have been slaughtered, including 8-month-old Laila Ghandour, who was asphyxiated by Israeli tear gas dropped on her family more than 1 kilometer away from the fence where Israeli snipers were positioned.
+The march, launched on March 30, demands the right of return for Palestinian refugees, who make up the absolute majority in Gaza, and an end to Israel’s 11-year-old illegal blockade.
+While Amnesty International has called for a “military embargo” against Israel, the UN has called for an independent investigation into Israel’s “unlawful, calculated killings” in Gaza. Gilberto Gil was twice a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN.
+In 2015, Gil, accompanied by another Brazilian music legend, Caetano Veloso, defied Palestinian and international appeals to refrain from performing in Tel Aviv. A few months later, Veloso announced that he would “never go back” to play Israel.
+Hind Awwad for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a key member of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, commented:
+We warmly welcome Gilberto Gil’s cancellation of his concert in Tel Aviv, the center of Israel’s regime of occupation and apartheid. We thank Gil’s fans in Brazil and across Latin America whose outrage over Israel’s latest massacre in Gaza and support for Palestinian human rights seem to have played a decisive role in his decision.
+We consider Gil’s cancellation as a belated gesture of solidarity, almost 3 years after crossing our nonviolent picket line. We want Gil to know that we never held any grudge. And as our daily resistance shows, our hope never dies.
+Our Nakba, or catastrophe, began 70 years ago, and is ongoing. International artists should not wait for another Israeli massacre to realize the importance of not lending their names and art to a regime that is targeting our rights and our very existence every day.
+By cancelling this show, Gil is in the good company of many world-renowned artists who have refused to art-wash Israel’s regime of oppression, including Lorde, Lauryn Hill, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, the late Gil Scott-Heron, Faithless, Roger Waters, among many others.
+We sincerely hope that Gil will never perform in Israel until Palestinians enjoy freedom, justice, and equality.
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+The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. PACBI advocates for the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, given their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. Visit PACBI at https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi and follow us on Twitter @PACBI

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+articleTitle: Part (2b): US tech companies begin to shut down Israel operations
+pageTitle: Part (2b): US tech companies begin to shut down Israel operations | BDS Movement
+description: Investing in Israel, a 75-year-old settler colony that imposes apartheid on Indigenous Palestinians has always been unethical and illegal. It is becoming financially reckless as well. #ShutDownNation
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/ShutDownNation/Part2b
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+Investing in Israel, a 75-year-old settler-colony that imposes apartheid on Indigenous Palestinians, has always been unethical and illegal. It is becoming financially reckless as well. #ShutDownNationOver the past few weeks alone, 3 large US tech firms, Electronic Arts (EA), Dropbox and Corning, have shut down operations in Israel, following the lead of Israeli tech giants that have moved abroad, further undermining investor confidence in the troubled Israeli economy.With the current government, the most far-right, racist, sexist, fundamentalist and homophobic in Israel’s history, and its influential fascist component, trust in the Israeli economy is fading faster than expected.Senior Israeli analysts recently said, “Investments in Israel in recent months have almost disappeared… We see a poor appetite for investments on the part of foreign investors, but we also have less appetite as Israelis.”Fearing a “judicial coup” and rising “dictatorship,” Israeli hi-tech giants, like Riskified, Wiz, Papaya Global, and Disruptive AI, have been the first to recognise the capital flight and looming financial crisis and have fled the Israeli economy.A few weeks ago, Moody’s downgraded Israel’s credit outlook due to the “deterioration of Israel’s governance” and a “weakening of institutional strength and policy predictability.” S&P is expected to follow suit soon.In the first three months following the formation of the new government, investors in Israel’s stock market lost over $25 billion. Eugene Kandel, Former chair of Israel’s National Economic Council, predicted 2 scenarios for Israel’s economy, “a heart attack or cancer.”In just over 2 months, Israel’s unprecedented budget surplus turned into a deficit due to a whopping drop in tax revenues and extensive spending by the far-right government. #ShutDownNationNow that Electronic Arts (EA), Dropbox & Corning have shut down operations in Israel, what are Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Intel waiting for? #NoTechForApartheidApartheid is always terrible for the oppressed. As in South Africa yesterday and Israel today, we know it is also terrible for business in the longer term! #ShutDownNation #DivestFromApartheid

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+articleTitle: Over 10 Million Indian Women Demand Freedom For Ahed Tamimi, Endorse BDS
+pageTitle: Over 10 Million Indian Women Demand Freedom For Ahed Tamimi, Endorse BDS | BDS Movement
+description: February 13, 2018 – As Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenage girl enduring unjust detention in an Israeli prison, begins trial today, major...
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+February 13, 2018 – As Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenage girl enduring unjust detention in an Israeli prison, begins trial today, major organizations from the Indian women’s movement, representing over 10 million Indian women, demand her release alongside all Palestinian child prisoners. These organizations have also heeded the call by Palestinian women to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, asserting that endorsing BDS is the most effective form of solidarity with Ahed and other child prisoners.
+The BDS movement is a peaceful, global human rights movement that urges the use of economic and cultural boycotts to end egregious Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights and international law. It is inspired by the use of political boycotts in earlier movements for freedom, justice and equality, including the South African anti-apartheid movement, the American Civil Rights movement, and India’s movement for independence from colonial rule.
+Ahed Tamimi’s release has also been called for by major human rights organizations like Amnesty International and in a recent statement by prominent cultural figures and “Dream Defender” activists in the United States.
+Majida Masri thanked the Indian women’s movement on behalf of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), which represents the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society and leads the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. Masri is also with the Women’s Campaign to Boycott Israel. She said:
+We Palestinians welcome the principled solidarity of India’s leading women’s organizations with Ahed Tamimi, all Palestinian children imprisoned in Israeli jails, and our BDS movement for freedom, justice and equality. This latest expression of solidarity from Indian women is in line with a noble legacy of Indian support for our nonviolent Palestinian anti-colonial struggle. Alongside the millions in India who are calling for an end to deepening ties between the Indian and Israeli governments, we can end India’s complicity with decades of Israeli theft of Palestinian land, colonialism, military occupation and apartheid.
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+India’s women’s movement asserted that their own struggles against patriarchy, caste, class, religious divides and militarization form the basis of their solidarity with Palestinian  women. Agreeing with their Palestinian counterparts, they reiterate that justice is always a feminist issue. Their statement says:
+We, the undersigned, demand the immediate release of Ahed Tamimi and all Palestinian child prisoners. We further believe that the strongest way to support Ahed’s struggle and the Palestinian quest for justice, freedom and equality is to support the BDS movement.
+Israeli impunity is built on collaboration of corrupt regimes, and it will be dismantled by the unity of grassroots struggles across the world. Palestinians are leading us by example. We must give shape to our solidarity in the form of the concrete and effective BDS efforts.
+Boycotts were an essential part of our own struggle against colonialism, they brought down the South African apartheid regime, and they will break the back of Israeli colonization, occupation and apartheid.
+We stand in vigil, demanding justice for Ahed. We urge women’s and other grassroots movements in India and across the world to do the same. As Ahed braves Israeli prisons, we must send her a resonating message of support and love. Let that message be one of resistance, of people’s power and of BDS.
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+Read the full statement here.
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+Note to editors:
+India’s long history of solidarity with Palestine is increasingly translating into growing Indian support for the BDS movement for Palestinian rights.
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+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

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+articleTitle: Socialist International of 140 Global Political Parties Adopts BDS, Calls for Military Embargo on Israel
+pageTitle: Socialist International of 140 Global Political Parties Adopts BDS, Calls for Military Embargo on Israel | BDS Movement
+description: July 5, 2018 —The Council of the Socialist International (SI) has called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) for Palestinian rights at their...
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+July 5, 2018 —The Council of the Socialist International (SI) has called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) for Palestinian rights at their meeting in the United Nations in Geneva on June 26-27. SI also called for a “total embargo on all forms of military trade and cooperation with Israel.”
+Socialist International brings together 140 global political parties, including 35 parties in government in South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Portugal, Tanzania, Luxemburg, Romania, Iraq and elsewhere.
+The SI has reaffirmed the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and called on governments and civil organizations to “activate Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli occupation.” It called for the “total embargo on all forms of military trade and cooperation with Israel as long as it continues its policies of occupation and Apartheid against the people of Palestine.”
+SI strongly condemned Israel’s “racist laws,” and expressed its solidarity with Palestinian citizens of Israel, who “continu[e] to live under a system of institutionalized discrimination.”
+Mahmoud Nawajaa, General Coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the leadership of the global BDS movement, said:
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+Given its sheer size and global reach, Socialist International’s call for sanctions against Israel is a game-changer in the global BDS movement.
+It is the most significant call for sanctions against Israel to date since BDS was launched in 2005. BDS activists expect it to blow wind in the sails of the BDS movement and in particular, to mainstream the call for a military embargo on Israel after its massacre of over 130 unarmed protesters in Gaza in May.
+We deeply value Socialist International’s principled solidarity with the people of Palestine and salute them for taking concrete measures to hold Israel accountable for its decades-old regime of military occupation, colonialism and apartheid.
+We look forward to the implementation of this momentous declaration in SI members’ home countries.
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+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

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+articleTitle: After Gaza massacre, 40 Cambridge University student groups demand boycott of BAE and Caterpillar
+pageTitle: After Gaza massacre, 40 Cambridge University student groups demand boycott of BAE and Caterpillar | BDS Movement
+description: University of Cambridge: end your partnership with Caterpillar Inc. and BAE Systems! Jointly initiated by Cambridge University Palestine...
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+University of Cambridge: end your partnership with Caterpillar Inc. and BAE Systems!
+Jointly initiated by Cambridge University Palestine Society and Cambridge University Kurdish Society.
+We, the undersigned, call on the University of Cambridge to immediately terminate its partnership with Caterpillar Inc. and BAE Systems, as part of the Cambridge Service Alliance. By maintaining this relationship, the University has made itself, and us, shamefully complicit in war crimes. These companies have been essential in enabling major violations of international law by the states of Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
+On the 14th of May in Gaza, Israeli soldiers killed 62 Palestinians with live ammunition, wounding thousands of others, as they demonstrated for their internationally recognised rights (under UN Resolution 194) as refugees to return to their homes.
+Israel has a long and brutal history of such violations of international humanitarian law in occupied Palestine. House demolitions, extrajudicial assassination of unarmed civilians, and settlement construction are all recognised as gross violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (Geneva IV), which prohibits the destruction of property, murder, disproportionate use of force, and the forcible transfer of populations by the Occupying Power. Britain as a signatory of this treaty has an obligation to ensure respect for its implementation, especially in terms of grave breaches (war crimes) by other signatories. Israel’s transfer of hundreds of thousands of its citizens as settlers into the West Bank are also grave breaches under Geneva IV. These are all, under the International Criminal Court’s (ICC)statute, considered war crimes.
+As highlighted by Human Rights Watch, Caterpillar Inc. supplies the militarized D9 bulldozers used by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to demolish thousands of Palestinian homes, making way for Jewish-only settlements.
+BAE Systems is central to British arms sales to Saudi Arabia, supplying the regime with the Tornado and Typhoon fighter jets which are used to indiscriminately bomb civilians in Yemen, flattening schools and hospitals, and destroying families.
+They also supply hundreds of millions of pounds worth of military equipment, including fighter jets, to the Turkish state, whose recent assault on Afrin in Northern Syria saw the indiscriminate shelling and bombing of Kurdish civilians, killing more than 500 and displacing thousands, in the space of weeks. This followed the brutal massacres by Turkish government forces in 2016, of hundreds of civilians, enforced disappearances, torture, the displacement of up to half a million people, and the systematic destruction of housing in Kurdish towns and cities across southeastern Turkey such as Cizre, Nusaybin and the Sur district of Diyarbakir, highlighted by the UN High Commission for Human Rights’ in its report. This destruction was significantly enabled by military equipment and technology directly obtained through recent contracts with BAE.
+BAE also provides the targeting displays in F-16 fighters jets, which Israel used extensively in its attack on Gaza in 2014, killing over 1400 Palestinian civilians, a third of them children.
+The University of Cambridge maintains a close relationship with both BAE Systems and Caterpillar Inc. through the ‘Cambridge Service Alliance’. Set up in 2010, the programme is dubbed “a unique global alliance between leading businesses and universities”, working together to research innovation in the services sector. Vice Chancellor Stephen Toope sought to justify these partnerships, at an open meeting on Tuesday 15th May, by pointing out that they do not pertain directly to military equipment production.
+This is not good enough. BAE Systems and Caterpillar Inc. supply essential products and services to the perpetrators of war crimes, facilitating the killing of thousands of Palestinian, Kurdish and Yemeni civilians. As members of the University of Cambridge, students and staff alike, we are deeply ashamed that our institution maintains such large and active links with corporate entities trading in mass murder and human misery. For as long as these links continue, Cambridge cannot fulfil its pretensions to being ethically responsible, or a social leader.
+In 2005, over 170 Palestinian civil society groups called on us, citizens of conscience around the world, to boycott the Israeli state and those corporations complicit in violations of international law, in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Kurdish activists have also recently begun to call on global civil society for boycotts, sanctions, and divestment from the Turkish state.
+We demand that the University of Cambridge honour its ethical responsibilities by immediately terminating the participation of Caterpillar Inc. and BAE Systems in the Cambridge Service Alliance, and cease all institutional links with both companies until they end their role in such terrible violations of international law.
+Signed,
+University and college groups
+Cambridge University Palestine Society
+Cambridge University Kurdish Society
+Cambridge University Middle East Society
+Cambridge University Afghan Society
+Cambridge University Pakistan Society
+Cambridge University Amnesty International
+Oxfam Cambridge University
+Cambridge University Students’ Union Women’s Campaign
+Cambridge University Students’ Union BME Campaign
+Cambridge University Students’ Union LGBT+ Campaign
+Cambridge University Students’ Union Disabled Students’ Campaign
+Cambridge University Students’ Union Class Act Campaign
+FLY Girls of Cambridge
+FUSE Cambridge
+Decolonise Cambridge
+Demilitarise Cambridge
+Cambridge Zero Carbon Society
+Cambridge Defend Education
+Cambridge University Human Rights Law Society
+Cambridge PEN
+Cambridge SolidariTee
+Cambridge Student Action for Refugees
+Just Love Cambridge
+Robinson Cut the Rent
+King’s Bunker
+King’s College Feminist Society
+Emmanuel College Feminist Society
+Churchill College Feminist Society
+Jesus College Feminist Society
+The Beard Society — Peterhouse Society and Platform for Feminist Discussion
+Jo Cox Feminist Society, Pembroke College
+Trinity Hall Feminist Forum
+Cambridge Cut the Rent
+Critical Theory & Practice Seminar Series
+Preventing Prevent at Cambridge
+Cambridge Marxist Society
+Cambridge University Momentum Society
+Cambridge University Oxfam Society
+Cambridge University Vegan Society
+Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast
+Cambridge Urbanism in the Global South Working Group
+
+Academics and staff
+Professor Clément Mouhot, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
+Professor Raymond Geuss, Faculty of Philosophy (Emeritus)
+Professor Khaled Fahmy, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Professor François de Blois, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Dr Rachael Harris, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Dr Roman Vater, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Samuel Carlshamre, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Farida El Keiy, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Jill Cooper, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
+Dr Robert Macfarlane, Faculty of English
+Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Faculty of English
+Dr Jason Scott-Warren, Faculty of English
+Dr Jean Chothia, Faculty of English
+Dr Ross Wilson, Faculty of English
+Dr Michael Hrebeniak, Faculty of English
+Dr Hero Chalmers, Faculty of English
+Dr Ruth Watson, Faculty of History
+Dr. Nicholas Guyatt, Faculty of History
+Dr Andrew Arsan, Faculty of History
+Dr Arthur Asseraf, Faculty of History
+Dr Alex Campsie, Faculty of History
+Dr Waseem Yaqoob, Faculty of History
+Dr Renaud Morieux, Faculty of History
+Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja, Faculty of History
+Dr Hubertus Jahn, Faculty of History
+Dr Mezna Qato, Faculty of History
+Dr Nick Evans, Faculty of History
+Ayse Polat, PhD student, Faculty of History
+Dr Steven Watson, Faculty of Education
+Dr Arathi Sriprakash, Faculty of Education
+Dr Lottie Hoare, Faculty of Education
+Dr Mark Carrigan, Faculty of Education
+Dr. Tyler Denmead, Faculty of Education
+Professor Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
+Dr Joseph D. Martin, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
+Dr Mary A Brazelton, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
+Dr Joshua Nall, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
+Jenny Bulstrode, PhD student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
+Azita Chellappoo, PhD student, Department of History & Philosophy of Science
+Eoin Carter, PhD student, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
+Professor Caroline Humphrey, Department of Social Anthropology
+Professor Marilyn Strathern, Department of Social Anthropology (Emeritus)
+Dr Yael Navaro, Department of Social Anthropology
+Dr Sian Lazar, Department of Social Anthropology
+Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Department of Social Anthropology
+Dr Fiona Wright, Department of Social Anthropology
+Dr Andrew Sanchez, Department of Social Anthropology
+Dr. Barbara Bodenhorn, Department of Social Anthropology (Emeritus)
+Dr Monica Moreno Figueroa, Department of Sociology
+Dr Jana Bacevic, Department of Sociology
+Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Department of Sociology
+Dr. Katie Gaddini, Department of Sociology
+Heather Stallard, Administrator, Department of Sociology
+Maria Hengeveld, PhD student, POLIS
+Tobias Müller, PhD student, POLIS
+Josh Platzky-Miller, PhD student, Centre of Development Studies
+Dr Anne Alexander, Research Associate, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
+Dr. Hugo Leal, Research Associate, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
+Nadi Abusaada, Department of Architecture
+Dr Sandra Cortijo, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University
+Dr. John David Rhodes, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
+Dr Natasha Tanna, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
+Dr Houshang Ardavan, Institute of Astronomy
+Hakan Sandal, PhD student, Centre for Gender Studies
+Elizabeth Yarrow, PhD student, Centre for Gender Studies
+Juliet Allen, PhD Student, Centre for Gender Studies
+Dr Barzan Sadiq, Department of Pathology
+Matt Mahmoudi, PhD Student, POLIS
+Rebwar R. Salih, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
+Dilar Dirik, PhD student, Department of Sociology
+Diane Barlee, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
+Zeina Al Azmeh, PhD student, Department of Sociology
+Prof Marilyn Strathern, Social Anthropology (Emeritus)
+Dr Surabhi Ranganathan, Faculty of Law
+Dr Simon Schoenbuchner, MRC Biostatistics Unit
+Dr Nicki Kindersley, Faculty of History
+Jack Dixon, Librarian, History and Philosophy of Science
+Dr Kate Daniels, Language Centre
+Dr Julieta Galante, Department of Psychiatry
+Professor Patrick Keiller, Department of Architecture
+ACADEMICS AND STUDENT GROUPS, ADD SIGNATURES HERE.
+Press contact: [email protected]

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+articleTitle: The BDS Movement Affirms its Full Support for Administrative Detainees' Boycott of Israeli Courts
+pageTitle: The BDS Movement Affirms its Full Support for Administrative Detainees' Boycott of Israeli Courts | BDS Movement
+description: In response to calls from the leadership of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) calls...
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+In response to calls from the leadership of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) calls for boycotting apartheid Israel’s complicit court system on all cases related to the policy of administrative detention until this policy is repealed completely.Israel has recently escalated its brutal repression against our brave political prisoners, including violent assaults against them and deprivation of their fundamental, internationally recognized rights. Today, 520 administrative prisoners stand united against Israel’s illegal policy of administrative detention, which deprives detainees of their freedom without due process, including even presenting charges against them.The BNC, the largest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, affirms its full support of our administrative detainees’ boycott of Israeli courts. We are committed to strengthening our global BDS campaigns against apartheid Israel and companies, banks and cultural institutions that are complicit in its crimes against our prisoners and the entire Palestinian people.We call for intensifying BDS efforts globally to pressure Israel’s regime of apartheid, settler-colonialism and occupation to revoke its policy of administrative detention and to free all Palestinian political prisoners.No matter how challenging our path ahead may be, we shall continue the struggle for our inalienable rights to freedom, the right to return and self-determination.#FreeThemAll

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+articleTitle: BNC Welcomes Call by Christian Organizations Urging the World Council of Churches to Support the BDS Movement for Palestinian Human Rights
+pageTitle: BNC Welcomes Call by Christian Organizations Urging the World Council of Churches to Support the BDS Movement for Palestinian Human Rights | BDS Movement
+description: June 20, 2017, Occupied Ramallah — The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) warmly welcomes a historic open letter by the National Coalition of...
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+June 20, 2017, Occupied Ramallah — The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) warmly welcomes a historic open letter by the National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) urging the World Council of Churches (WCC) to “recognize Israel as an apartheid state,” support the nonviolent, Palestinian-led global BDS movement, help intensify Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns and actively refuse Christian complicity in ongoing Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights.
+Notably, the NCCOP recalled the WCC’s “courageous and pivotal prophetic leadership” in its work to end the apartheid regime’s racist rule in South Africa, and called on it to be consistent and play the same inspiring role in ending Israeli apartheid against the entire Palestinian people today.
+Calling on the WCC to work against Christian complicity in sustaining Israeli apartheid, the NCCOP said it was “disturbed by the fact that States and churches are dealing with Israel as if the situation were normal, ignoring the reality of occupation, discrimination and daily death in the land.”
+The NCCOP specifically called on the World Council of Churches to defend the Palestinian right to advocate for BDS campaigns until Israel “complies with international law” and ends its regime of “occupation, apartheid and discriminations, and accepts [the right of] refugees to return to their home land and properties.��� In point 7 of its call to action, the NCCOP went further and asked the WCC to itself help “intensify” BDS measures.
+Omar Barghouti from the BNC said,
+We salute the brave and principled call issued by the National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine urging the World Council of Churches to support the BDS movement for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. We sincerely hope that the World Council of Churches will do the right thing, as it did with apartheid South Africa, and adopt the coalition’s call to action in defense of human dignity.
+Palestinian hope was boosted when some of the largest churches in the United States, including the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church and the United Church of Christ divested from Israeli banks or complicit international corporations, and when nonviolent BDS pressure compelled some of the largest multinationals to end their involvement in Israel’s illegal projects.
+Now, the World Council of Churches has the historic opportunity to further Palestinian hope for freedom and once again stand on the right side of history.
+
+The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine represents a cross-section of the most prominent Christian Palestinian organizations in present-day Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory , including those in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Gaza.
+About 200,000 Christian Palestinians currently reside in historic Palestine, descendants of some of the oldest Christian communities in the world. As an integral part of the Palestinian people subjected to half a century of Israeli military occupation and nearly 70 years of ongoing dispossession and apartheid, they suffer from widespread official and unofficial Israeli discrimination and hate crimes, whether they are citizens of Israel, live under Israeli military rule or have been rendered refugees denied their right of return to their homeland.
+The World Council of Churches includes 348 member churches in more than 110 countries, representing over 500 million Christians.
+
+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Visit our website and follow us on Twitter @BDSmovement

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+articleTitle: Union of Students in Ireland Votes to Support Boycott Campaign Against Israel
+pageTitle: Union of Students in Ireland Votes to Support Boycott Campaign Against Israel | BDS Movement
+description: The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) voted today at its annual congress to support a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel....
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+The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) voted today at its annual congress to support a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel.
+Student organisations have increasingly moved to support the campaign, even if not every students’ union in Ireland is mandated to support action against Israel.
+The motion today was pitched with calls for students to be on the right side of history, a cry that was greeted with a standing ovation from the audience. The motion was brought by Queen’s University Belfast Students’ Union (QUBSU) and needed a two-thirds majority to pass.
+Speaking in favour of the motion, Vice-President for Academic Affairs of USI Oisín Hassan said: “We are not talking about institutions like our own.”
+“We are talking about institutions that are supporting” the military occupation of Palestine, he said.
+USI is now mandated to lobby universities to divest from and “terminate any contracts with companies that are complicit in the occupation of the Palestinian territories and violation of Palestinian human rights more wisely”. The union will also “support an Academic Boycott of Israeli Higher Education Institutions complicit in normalising, providing intellectual cover for, and supporting settler-colonialism”.
+Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) is mandated to support a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, after a referendum on the issue passed last month. The issue was pushed to the centre of campus politics over the last year by Students for Justice in Palestine.
+At congress today, President of Dublin Institute of Technology Students’ Union (DITSU) Boni Odoemene suggested that support for boycott, divestment and sanctions might be anti-semitic and could draw accusations of “neo-Nazism”.
+There was heavy Trinity support for the motion.
+TCDSU President Kevin Keane spoke today in support of the motion. As President-elect, Keane attracted heavy criticism from student activists after speaking against a motion calling for a boycott campaign at the union’s council, despite offering support during his presidential campaign. At congress, he said: “I spoke against it because I wasn’t brave.”
+Shane De Rís also spoke in favour of the motion. “Join us in our fight”, De Rís asked students. “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.” Laura Beston, TCDSU’s Disability Rights Officer, also spoke in favour of the motion.
+The Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) President-elect, Oisín Vince Coulter, told the audience: “Students have opposed oppression for decades and we have stood on the right side of history.”

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+articleTitle: Bologna becomes latest Italian city to call for arms embargo on Israel
+pageTitle: Bologna becomes latest Italian city to call for arms embargo on Israel | BDS Movement
+description: On Monday, the City Council of Bologna, Italy’s seventh largest city, approved a motion in support of concrete action to hold Israel...
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+On Monday, the City Council of Bologna, Italy’s seventh largest city, approved a motion in support of concrete action to hold Israel accountable for violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, as stipulated in international law. The motion urges the Italian government and European institutions to "commit to suspending supplies of weapons and military equipment as called for by Amnesty International." The motion passed by a wide margin, with 23 votes in favor and six abstentions.
+The motion recalled the over one hundred Palestinians killed and 10,000 wounded in recent weeks by Israel’s "harsh repression" of "peaceful protests" by tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza against Israel’s occupation and illegal blockade of Gaza and for the UN-sanctioned right of return of Palestinian refugees.
+The Council also recalled the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem, despite the UN General Assembly resolution against the decision approved by a wide majority, including Italy.
+The motion noted how the decision of the organizers of the Giro d'Italia to start the cycling race from Israel provoked "a wave of indignation" and "had, in fact, contributed to supporting the position of said country, backed by the US, which claims Jerusalem as its unified capital in violation of international law."
+The councilors called on the international community to work "to compel Israel to assume its responsibilities as the occupying force."
+Italy is a major supplier of weapons to Israel and maintains strong military research and intelligence activities with it. According to the Italian Disarmament Network, in 2014, Italy was the EU's leading arms exporter to Israel. Collaboration between the Italian and Israeli war industries continues to grow, with "technology transfers", training, joint exercises and maneuvers, conducted on Italian soil and in areas under Israeli control. Italian law 185 of 1990 prohibits the sale of arms to countries in a state of armed conflict or to countries "whose governments are responsible for documented violations of international conventions on human rights."
+With Bologna, three Italian city councils have so far called for a military embargo against Israel.
+A few days ago the City Council of San Giuliano Terme (Pisa) approved a motion calling on the Italian parliament to "end all military relations, sales and trade of war material with the state of Israel" and endorsed the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) for Palestinian rights.
+Last year the City Council of Florence unanimously approved a motion calling on the Italian government and the European Union “to end all forms of technical and economic cooperation connected, directly or indirectly, with the Israeli military” and with illegal Israeli settlements.
+The motions approved by Italian city councils come amid similar measures called for internationally in recent weeks as an effective means to hold Israel accountable to international law standards. The Spanish party Podemos called for a military embargo against Israel, while Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the British Labor party, has reaffirmed his party's commitment to review arms sales to Israel. In Ireland, the Dublin City Council approved a motion endorsing the BDS movement.
+BDS Italy congratulates the City Councils of Bologna, San Giuliano Terme and Firenze for their commitment to enforcing respect for international law and human rights. In particular, their calls for concrete action, such as a military embargo against Israel, are necessary more than ever, considering the total contempt on the part of Israel for Palestinian lives and its utter disregard of international law.
+We call on all Italian local administrations to follow the example of the city councils of Bologna, San Giuliano Terme and Florence, approving similar motions calling for effective and concrete measures to ensure respect for human rights, international and Italian law. This is not simply about solidarity; it is about Italy meeting its legal obligations to cease aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes and serious human rights violations.
+BDS Italy

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+articleTitle: Palestinians call for boycott of Hyundai
+pageTitle: Palestinians call for boycott of Hyundai | BDS Movement
+description: Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Hyundai over the company’s failure to stop its construction equipment being used by Israel to destroy their...
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/news/palestinians-call-boycott-hyundai
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+Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Hyundai over the company’s failure to stop its construction equipment being used by Israel to destroy their homes and communities.
+“The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Committee of Palestinian Citizens of Israel (BDS48) calls upon our Palestinian people in the homeland and the Diaspora, the peoples of the Arab world, and people of conscience worldwide to boycott and divest from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), until it ends its involvement in Israel’s violations of our human rights, particularly in Jerusalem and the Naqab (Negev),” says an action alert released on Tuesday.
+The alert calls on people around the world “to boycott Hyundai products” and urges institutions, including investment funds and churches, to divest from Hyundai shares.
+Municipal bodies should exclude Hyundai from public tenders, the action alert states.
+Complicity in ethnic cleansing
+While Israel’s abuse of the South Korean company’s products has been documented for years, BDS48 says the campaign comes “at this particular moment in light of the extensive use of Hyundai equipment by the Israeli authorities in the recent demolitions” of many homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the southern Naqab region, and in the town of Qalansawa further north, last month.
+Another wave of demolitions in Umm al-Hiran is expected imminently, part of Israel’s plan to destroy the community and replace it with a town for Jews, to be called “Hiran.”
+In December, Israel also used Hyundai equipment to demolish a home in the occupied Golan Heights.
+The BDS48 action alert, which was disseminated by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), notes that Hyundai has been presented with evidence of its “persistent complicity in Israeli ethnic cleansing policies against Palestinians and Syrians in the territories occupied since 1967.”
+But the company “has failed to stop its business-as-usual involvement,” the alert states.
+Hyundai “has thus forfeited its responsibilities as stated in the UN Global Compact and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” – standards that are supposed to promote sustainable development and halt corporate complicity in state abuses.
+Tarnished brand
+Until the early 2000s, Hyundai was a single group encompassing such activities as vehicle production, shipbuilding, construction, steel, finance, retail, aerospace and defense.
+It was broken up into five major companies, including Hyundai Heavy Industries, which makes ships and construction equipment, and Hyundai Motor Group.
+But all the companies continue to be controlled by a few members of the founding Chung family as part of a complex web of entities.
+All the spin-offs trade on the goodwill of the famous Hyundai name, a brand that risks being tarnished by association with Israel’s crimes.
+Consumers around the world would be most familiar with cars made by Hyundai Motor Group and its affiliate Kia.
+In recent years, Hyundai has shot into the world’s top five automakers.
+It is a popular brand in Middle East countries, with Saudi Arabia accounting for more than 40 percent of its regional sales.
+In 2016, Hyundai saw its first dip in auto sales in almost two decades. Its workers have also staged widespread strikes over wages.
+The BDS48 action alert urges Hyundai workers and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions “to stand in solidarity with our peaceful struggle by pressuring the Hyundai management to stop the company’s complicity in Israeli violations of human rights.”
+“Our campaign is not intended at all to harm the interests of the company’s workers but to protect the rights of our people as stipulated in international law,” it states.

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+articleTitle: Uruguay Football Team, Please Don’t Train Where Israeli Soldiers Train to Kill Palestinians
+pageTitle: Uruguay Football Team, Please Don’t Train Where Israeli Soldiers Train to Kill Palestinians | BDS Movement
+description: Dear Ignacio Alonso, Uruguay National Team players, management and staff, We write to you from the Al Khader Sports Club in the occupied...
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+Dear Ignacio Alonso, Uruguay National Team players, management and staff,We write to you from the Al Khader Sports Club in the occupied Palestinian territory. We write this letter with heavy hearts, but also filled with hope and determination. We are mourning our second player shot and killed by Israeli soldiers in less than two months. We are hopeful that you will heed our appeal and not accept apartheid Israel’s cynical invitation to host your pre-World Cup training session.On April 11, Israeli soldiers shot our defender, 19-year-old player Mohammad Ghneim. We hadn’t even begun to recover from this tragic loss to our team and community when, on May 27, Israeli soldiers shot another one of our players, Zaid Ghneim. He was only 14 years old–a child. Both Zaid and Mohammad were shot in the back during raids by Israeli soldiers in our town of Al Khader, near Bethlehem.All of our players and millions of Palestinians grow up under the brutal oppression of Israel’s apartheid regime when they are fortunate enough to grow up at all. Just since the beginning of this year, Israel has killed 13 Palestinian children, according to Defense for Children International.Sadly, our team's experience is hardly unique. The Football Stars Academy is mourning the loss of 18-year-old Thaer Yazouri, whose life was cut short by an Israeli bullet two weeks ago in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Psagot. Last year, Balata FC lost a promising player, 16-year-old Saeed Odeh, who dreamed of playing for the Palestinian national team. Saeed was also shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.As Palestinians, we can’t even mourn without the violence of Israeli apartheid adding to the pain at our funerals. The world expressed outrage as Israeli forces killed and then brutally clubbed pallbearers and mourners at the funeral of renowned Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, an act of brutality condemned by Catholic and other Christian leaders in Palestine. She was killed the same day as Thaer Yazouri.The outrage is welcome, with so many of Israel’s crimes against us Palestinians going unnoticed. However, we need more than outrage. We deserve justice and accountability. At the very least, we need celebrated teams like Uruguay not to offer Israel a golden opportunity to sportswash its apartheid regime.Israel is offering to host Uruguay for training ahead of the World Cup for this very reason: to give itself the cover it needs to continue to train its soldiers in the murder and maiming of young Palestinians, including footballers.We can’t and won’t stay silent. We spoke out against the Argentina Football Association’s planned match with apartheid Israel with Mohammad in our hearts. The news that the match would not happen gave hope to our club and our entire town.Now, with Zaid and Mohammad in our hearts, we are calling on Uruguay to train elsewhere and, by doing so, help prevent Israel from continuing to kill the lives and dreams of young Palestinian players.A team like Uruguay will have other offers for World Cup training. Please take one of those offers and help us isolate apartheid Israel until it respects our fundamental rights, just as was done in the case of apartheid South Africa.You would be far from alone. An unprecedented numbers of active footballers, teams and athletes are standing on the right side of history and refusing to sportswash Israeli apartheid.Out of love for our teammates and the game, we are urging you to help us stop what Amnesty International refers to as Israel’s “systematic, unlawful and arbitrary” killings of Palestinians and its treatment of Palestinians as “an inferior racial group.”Please don’t train where Israeli soldiers train to kill us. Don’t accept apartheid Israel’s invitation to host your pre-World Cup training.Al Khader Sports Club

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+articleTitle: No Fair Play in Apartheid Israel. Palestinian Clubs Urge International Teams to Cancel Matches.
+pageTitle: No Fair Play in Apartheid Israel. Palestinian Clubs Urge International Teams to Cancel Matches. | BDS Movement
+description: Dear Spanish Football Federation, Uruguayan Football Association, Paris Saint-Germain F.C., FC Nantes, AS Roma, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Juventus F.C...
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+Dear Spanish Football Federation, Uruguayan Football Association, Paris Saint-Germain F.C., FC Nantes, AS Roma, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Juventus F.C., and Club Atlético de Madrid, S. A. D. players, management and staff,We write to you as Palestinian football clubs from the occupied Palestinian West Bank and besieged Gaza. We understand that you are planning “friendly” or other matches or World Cup training in apartheid Israel in the coming months. We urge you, in the spirit of the values that underlie the beautiful game, not to play or train in apartheid Israel.There is nothing quite like the sense of freedom we feel while racing down the pitch or the sense of euphoria we experience when we win a match.These moments of pure joy are far too brief and interrupted when we are forced to face the reality of our lives under what we know as, and what Amnesty International has documented as, Israeli apartheid and a “cruel system of domination.”Our players were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, including 16-year-old Saeed Odeh, 19-year-old Mohammad Ghneim, 18-year-old Thaer Yazouri, and 14-year-old Zaid Ghneim, in the past year alone. Our athletes’ careers are ended after being maimed by Israeli soldiers, such as 23-year-old Mohammed Khalil from Gaza, who was shot in both knees. Gaza has several teams made up of amputees who have lost limbs to Israeli sniper bullets and military assaults. Our stadiums are destroyed by Israeli bombs. Our players are arrested and held in Israeli prisons without charge. Armed Israeli soldiers raid our pitches and fire tear gas during matches, even of youth leagues. Israel hinders our import of sports equipment. It is important to note that while the Israel Football Association includes within its league's teams in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land, we are prevented by Israeli military checkpoints from travelling for training or for matches on our land.  Even our beloved Palestine Cup has been repeatedly delayed and even blocked altogether because Israel wouldn’t allow footballers from the two winning clubs to travel within our own land to play the match. Just think about that for a moment. These teams overcame the seemingly insurmountable challenges posed by Israel’s regime of military occupation and apartheid to rise to the top of their leagues, only to be prevented from playing the final championship by the same regime that oppresses them.We speak from a football perspective, but what we experience is also the reality of millions of Palestinians who live under the brutal violence of Israel’s apartheid regime.On the same day that Israeli soldiers shot footballer Thaer Yazouri, they also shot and killed renowned Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The soldiers then brutally attacked pallbearers and mourners at her funeral, an act of brutality condemned by Catholic and other Christian leaders in Palestine.Israel, just like other oppressive regimes, proposes these friendly matches and invites teams for World Cup training because it knows they are a golden opportunity to sportswash its apartheid regime. Apartheid South Africa had also done a lot of sportswashing in its days. Sporting events with celebrated teams such as yours help provide apartheid Israel with the cover it needs to continue its prolonged, brutal oppression of all Palestinians, including footballers, with impunity.In a recent interview, AS Roma coach José Mourinho responded to a question about Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and measures taken to protest it by recalling other wars taking place across the globe, including Israel’s attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. He said one of the main questions on his mind is what we can do about it.Here’s one thing all of you can do, including any teams considering invitations to Israel. Your clubs are in a unique position to help us isolate apartheid Israel until it respects our fundamental rights, just as was done in the case of apartheid South Africa by refusing to play or train in apartheid Israel.We urge you to join the unprecedented number of active footballers, teams and athletes who are standing on the right side of history and refusing to sportswash Israeli apartheid.Our fellow players who have been killed, maimed, arrested, and denied even the right to play by Israel are forever in our hearts. It is for them, and Palestinians young and old who continue to dream, that we can’t and won’t stay silent.There’s absolutely nothing “friendly” about Israel killing young footballers and oppressing millions. Please don’t play or train in apartheid Israel.SignaturesBalata Youth CenterPalestine Amputee Football Association

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+articleTitle: Artists, academics, students, athletes: Escalate for Gaza. Escalate for humanity.
+pageTitle: Artists, academics, students, athletes: Escalate for Gaza. Escalate for humanity. | BDS Movement
+description: Together, we are exacting a heavy price against genocidal Israel, working strategically and urgently building grassroots power to change the policies of states that enable genocide and apartheid.
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/news/escalate-for-gaza
+
+---
+
+At least 111 Palestinians including 80 children have died of induced starvation in Gaza. Thousands more are at imminent risk. Genocidal Israel is using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians in Gaza, killing 1,000 at so-called food distribution points. Yet, after 21+ months of a livestreamed genocide, many international academic, cultural and sports institutions, particularly in the colonial West, have still failed to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide, and in some cases have deepened it. Palestinians call on the tens of thousands of artists, academics, cultural workers, students, writers, athletes, and sportsplayers supporting our movement to escalate their peaceful disruption of this complicity, for Gaza and for humanity!In this darkest moment in Palestinian history, PACBI’s 20 years of campaigning alongside global partners is beginning to isolate genocidal Israel. Many universities, cultural festivals, associations, unions, sports clubs and bodies, pride marches and queer organizations, among others, have ended their complicity with apartheid Israel.Together, we are exacting a heavy price against genocidal Israel, working strategically and urgently building grassroots power to change the policies of states that enable genocide and apartheid.Everyone–including scholars, artists and athletes–has a profound ethical responsibility to allow no harm to be done in their name. This means speaking out and pressuring institutions, corporations, and states to end complicity.It means pledging to refuse to allow your work to be used to whitewash Israel’s genocide and underlying, decades-old regime of settler-colonial apartheid. It means organising at the grassroots level to push unions, universities, associations and institutions to end complicity through their procurement, pensions, endowments, and investments, as well as their partnerships with complicit Israeli institutions. It means demonstrations and peaceful disruptions to end business-as-usual during genocide.Solidarity with the oppressed begins with ending the complicity of institutions, corporations and states that enable the system of oppression.Escalate for Gaza! No business-as-usual during genocide. Statement on

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+articleTitle: #ShameOnGiro: Let’s Give Giro d’Italia a Reality Check
+pageTitle: #ShameOnGiro: Let’s Give Giro d’Italia a Reality Check | BDS Movement
+description: Social media call for action Giro d’Italia is steamrolling ahead with its decision to start the famed cycling race in Jerusalem this Friday....
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/news/shameongiro-lets-give-giro-ditalia-reality-check
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+---
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+Social media call for action
+Giro d’Italia is steamrolling ahead with its decision to start the famed cycling race in Jerusalem this Friday. They need a reality check.
+
+Israel’s multi-million dollar bribe was enough to enlist Giro in its propaganda campaign. As a result, Giro is …
+
+Whitewashing, or sport-washing, Israel’s ongoing war crimes, including the deliberate murder of peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza, just kilometers away from the race.
+
+Ignoring the Palestinian cities and towns along the route destroyed and ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948.
+
+Covering up Israel’s dozens of apartheid laws and policies that force some Palestinian communities to live without basic services such as water, electricity, schools and roads.
+
+Ignoring Israel’s illegal settlements, apartheid wall and checkpoints denying Palestinians freedom of movement.
+
+Ignoring the Israeli government’s explicitly racist policy of gradual ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians from Jerusalem.
+
+Ignoring the calls from Palestinian and international civil society organizations representing millions, from Palestinian officials, Palestinian Christian networks and members of European Parliament to relocate the race.
+
+UCI, the world cycling body, has kept its head firmly in the sand, refusing to take measures to ensure cycling isn’t complicit in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
+It’s up to us to spoil the party and give Giro a reality check!
+On Friday, May 4, as millions around the world follow the race, let’s rain on the parade. Let’s spoil the “celebrations” of 70 years of Palestinian dispossession.
+Share the sample tweets, videos, memes and interactive map below with the hashtag #ShameOnGiro and #Giro101.

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+articleTitle: Don’t Race With Apartheid. Boycott IRONMAN in Apartheid Israel.
+pageTitle: Don’t Race With Apartheid. Boycott IRONMAN in Apartheid Israel. | BDS Movement
+description: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on triathletes to boycott the planned IRONMAN 70.3...
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/ironman
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+The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on triathletes to boycott the planned IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon competition in apartheid Israel, scheduled for November 12, 2021.We urge triathletes to boycott the race in the spirit of “fair play, equality, and sportsmanship” that IRONMAN claims to promote.Holding the race in Israel, with Israeli government sponsorship, will put the competition in the service of Israel’s apartheid regime, oppressing millions of Palestinians. Imagine having held IRONMAN in South Africa under the apartheid regime and being sponsored by the regime!Just this past May, Israel carried out military assaults on besieged Gaza, killing more than 247 Palestinians, including 66 children. Among them was Muath Nabil Al-Zaanin, a player for the Beit Hanoun Football Club. Israel ended the careers of dozens of Palestinian athletes in 2018 alone.Israel is continuing its gradual ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, with forced expulsions, home demolitions, and violent repression of peaceful protests. In June, when Palestinians organized a 3.5 - kilometer run between the two East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, Israeli forces violently attacked it, beating participants and spectators, launching sound grenades, and firing rubber-coated steel bullets.In the Galilee, where IRONMAN is set to take place, as in other areas under Israeli control, it is official Israeli government policy to “maximize Jewish Israeli control over land” by forcing Palestinians into “dense, under-served enclaves and restrict[ing] their access to land and housing,” as documented by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report earlier this year. That same report found Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid. Israel’s largest human rights organization, B’Tselem, has reached the same conclusion in its own report titled, “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid.”In addition, the IRONMAN cycling route goes through the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, in direct violation of international law.  Meanwhile, Israel regularly restricts Palestinians’ right to freedom of movement, including that of athletes traveling within our own land or abroad to train or compete. Runners participating in the Palestine Marathon are forced to run the race in laps because it is impossible to find a single 42 KM route free of Israeli walls, checkpoints, and roadblocks. Palestinian cyclists face violent attacks and even arrest by armed Israeli soldiers and illegal Israeli settlers while riding on our own land.Israel has shot and imprisoned Palestinian athletes, killed Palestinian children playing football more than once, and bombed Palestinian sports structures.Holding IRONMAN in Israel, especially with Israeli government sponsorship, guarantees it will be used to sports-wash Israel’s regime of military occupation and apartheid, oppressing Palestinians. An increasing number of professional athletes are saying no to Israel’s sports-washing and standing up for Palestinians' rights.If IRONMAN’s aim is indeed to promote “fair play, equality, and sportsmanship,” then it cannot take place in apartheid Israel.We urge triathletes who believe in the values of sport and who do not wish to aid Israel’s regime of oppression in its violations of international law and Palestinian human rights to boycott IRONMAN in apartheid Israel. We further urge triathletes to call on the World Triathlon Corporation and IRONMAN to refrain from organizing races in Israel until Palestinians are guaranteed our UN-sanctioned rights.Don’t race with Israeli apartheid.

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+articleTitle: Wave of Major Spanish Cities Express Support for Palestinian Rights
+pageTitle: Wave of Major Spanish Cities Express Support for Palestinian Rights | BDS Movement
+description: June 1, 2018 — Over the last two weeks, a wave of major cities across Spain have expressed strong support for Palestinian rights. They have all...
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/news/wave-major-spanish-cities-express-support-palestinian-rights
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+June 1, 2018 — Over the last two weeks, a wave of major cities across Spain have expressed strong support for Palestinian rights. They have all denounced President Donald Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and slammed Israel's latest massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
+Madrid, the capital and largest city in Spain, passed a motion condemning Israel’s “disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force … against Palestinian civilians” and called for an “immediate end” to the “illegal siege” suffocating 2 million people in Gaza.
+Barcelona, the second largest city in the Spanish state, endorsed the Palestinian call to stop arming Israel until it ends its gross violations of Palestinian human rights. Its city council overwhelmingly voted for a comprehensive military embargo and urged the Spanish government to ensure its implementation.
+Valencia, a regional capital, is now the largest city in the world to have voted to become an Apartheid Free Zone and explicitly support the BDS movement for Palestinian rights.
+Pamplona, another regional capital, passed a resolution that supports the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. It also called on the Spanish government and European Union to impose sanctions on Israel and cut diplomatic ties with the country. It expressed solidarity with Palestinian demonstrators peacefully participating in the Great Return March in Gaza, and strongly condemned the Israeli army for killing over a hundred Palestinians and injuring thousands.
+Terrassa and Badalona, Catalunya’s third and fourth largest cities, respectively, also called on the Spanish government to stop arming Israel in light of its recent massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and longstanding violations of Palestinian human rights. They urged other countries in the European Union and beyond to implement an arms embargo on Israel and cancel preferential treatment towards the country.
+Ana Sanchez, an organizer with the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition which leads the global BDS movement for Palestinian rights, said:
+When central governments fail to protect human rights, city councils shoulder an immense responsibility and have the opportunity to play a historic role on the side of justice. Barcelona, Valencia, Pamplona, Badalona and Terrassa have each shown how people can mobilize their cities to effectively support the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity. “Think globally, act locally” is not some tired maxim, but a clear-eyed strategy and moral compass to create the world we want to live in.
+I’m confident that the number of cities acting to oppose all gross violations of human rights will continue to grow across Europe and beyond. They will play a critical role in ending Israeli apartheid.
+
+Smaller towns are also taking action. Trebujena, a small town in Andalusia, became an Apartheid Free Zone last month. Salt, in Catalunya, just passed a motion for military embargo this week. More cities are expected to follow.
+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights.

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+articleTitle: UPDATED: Boycott of Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival Gains Momentum with New Cancellations
+pageTitle: UPDATED: Boycott of Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival Gains Momentum with New Cancellations | BDS Movement
+description: June 1, 2018 -- Four more filmmakers have joined a growing number of artists boycotting the Tel Aviv LGBT International Film Festival (TLVFest), in...
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+url: https://bdsmovement.net/news/updated-boycott-tel-aviv-lgbt-film-festival-gains-momentum-new-cancellations
+
+---
+
+June 1, 2018 -- Four more filmmakers have joined a growing number of artists boycotting the Tel Aviv LGBT International Film Festival (TLVFest), in response to a Palestinian call.
+
+Five artists had already cancelled their participation prior to the start of the festival, which runs between May 31 and June 9. With the latest cancellations, from two French directors and two from the Spanish state, a total of nine artists and filmmakers have boycotted the festival this year.
+Despite the cancelations, TLVFest has refused to remove the filmmakers’ films from the festival’s schedule. In a statement to an Israeli daily, the festival director Yair Hochner said, “Whoever canceled, canceled. As far as we are concerned the festival will continue normally.”
+French directors Océane Michel and Cyprien Vial had two scheduled screenings of their comedy film, “Embrasse-moi!”. Océane, who also makes his acting debut in the movie, posted on Facebook:
+I wrote to the Festival two days ago but my message seems not to have been understood as my movie is still listed on the program.
+I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and express my total disagreement with Israel's policy towards Palestine. For this reason, I refuse to take part in the pinkwashing strategy of the Israeli government. I want my movie withdrawn from the festival.
+I apologise to the audience of the festival because civilians are equally victims of their government. I make an absolute distinction between Israeli citizens and their government, but violence against Palestinians, including LGBT people, by the army and the state forces me to withdraw from the program.
+
+Likewise, Spanish director Dany Campos told Pinkwatching Israel - a collective of Palestinian queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) - that he is withdrawing his short, “Flaw,” from the Festival’s “B Shorts” category.
+Director Fabia Castro announced her support for the cultural boycott of Israel in addition to withdrawing her short, “Tres”:
+After learning about the very serious situation of oppression Palestinians live under, a regime of colonialism and apartheid, I refuse to let my art be used to whitewash Israel's image. … I reject attempts by Israel to use the rights and struggles of LGBTQ+ people to normalize their image….
+… Today, I add my voice to dozens of artists who, in the last few weeks, have joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for the rights of the Palestinian people."
+
+Meanwhile Sylvain Coisne who had already announced the cancellation of his short, "Dylan, Dylan," issued a statement on Facebook explaining his reasons for cancelling.
+The wave of boycotts of TLVFest follows Israel’s latest massacres in Gaza, where Israeli forces killed more than 117 unarmed Palestinian protesters, including 13 children, and injured more than 13,000, leaving many with life-changing disabilities. Amnesty International has condemned Israel’s shoot-to-kill-or-maim policy and Human Rights Watch described the killings as “unlawful and calculated.”
+Last year, TLVFest was hit with a similar wave of cancellations, including of South African director John Trengove.
+Haneen Maikey, director of alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, welcomed this year’s cancellations:
+Palestinian queers feel inspired by this wave of international solidarity at a time when world governments continue to fuel Israel’s impunity and war crimes. The scale of cancellations for the second year in a row are yet another sign of how Israel’s pinkwashing strategy is failing.
+There is a greater awareness worldwide about how Israel uses LGBTQ rights to justify its violent policies. Moreover, TLVFest’s management has shown its true face by declining to honor the requests from the directors to remove their work from the Festival’s program, they should do so now.
+
+Hind Awwad, from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), commented:
+We have noticed that many of the directors that were approached were not aware that their movies were scheduled to be shown at TLVFest. This is due to contractual arrangements with distributors who place the movies in international festivals without necessarily checking with filmmakers. Distributors should respect the wishes of directors who support the cultural boycott of Israel. The tide is changing for the support of Palestinian rights in the art world. The industry should reflect these changes.
+
+Update (7 June 2018)
+Two more directors have announced their decision to boycott TLVFest 2018, in solidarity with Palestinian human rights, as the festival enters its final days. This brings the total cancellations to 11.
+Canadian Marc-Antoine Lemire pulled his short movie PRE-DRINK, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film. It was scheduled to be screened on 5 June, the 51st anniversary of Israel’s military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Lemire wrote:
+
+We have recently become aware of Israel’s pinkwashing strategy, and wish to express our refusal to contribute to it, in addition to our support for the LGBTQ+ community. Following a protest movement of several filmmakers and artists in disagreement with Israel’s policies towards Palestine, we have decided to take a stand in favour of this movement. Especially with the recent events, we refuse the instrumentalisation of our movie.
+
+French filmmaker Antoine Heraly was invited to personally be present at TLVFest for the screening of his movie, “Furniture Porn Project”. He cancelled his participation, saying:
+
+Indeed, having had an intense week of reflection and reading, as well as discussions with organizations and a wide spectrum of intellectuals, I have come to the conclusion that, should I physically attend the screening to introduce Furniture Porn Project, my conscience would be absent from the theater.
+
+Had I had a longer period of time in which to get my ideas together, I would have asked you to withdraw my film from the festival, with which I cannot identify, as it is publicly funded and therefore a part of the Israeli politics of 'pinkwashing'. I have however noticed that the films whose directors wished to withdraw were screened in any case – which I think is not acceptable.
+
+Pinkwatching Israel and PACBI thank the artists and filmmakers for their principled solidarity and for challenging Israel’s pinkwashing strategy to justify the oppression of Palestinians.
+
+The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. PACBI advocates for the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, given their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. Visit PACBI at https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi and follow us on Twitter @PACBI

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+articleTitle: BDS Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
+pageTitle: BDS Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize | BDS Movement
+description: Statement by Norwegian Parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes on Nominating the BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights for a Nobel Peace Prize: As a member...
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+Statement by Norwegian Parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes on Nominating the BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights for a Nobel Peace Prize:
+As a member of the Norwegian parliament, I proudly use my authority as an elected official to nominate the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights for the Nobel Peace Prize.
+Nominating the BDS movement for this recognition is perfectly in line with the principles I and my party hold very dear. Like the BDS movement, we are fully committed to stopping an ascendent, racist and right-wing politics sweeping too much of our world, and securing freedom, justice and equality for all people.
+Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement and the American Civil Rights movement, the grassroots, Palestinian-led BDS movement is a peaceful, global human rights movement that urges the use of economic and cultural boycotts to end Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights and international law.
+The BDS movement seeks to end Israel’s half-century of military rule over 4.5 million Palestinians, including the devastating ten-year illegal siege collectively punishing and suffocating nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, the ongoing forcible eviction of Palestinians from their homes, and the theft of Palestinian land through the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. It seeks equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, currently discriminated against by dozens of racist laws, and to secure the internationally-recognized legal right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes and lands from which they were expelled. Palestinian refugees constitute nearly 50 percent of all Palestinians, and they are being denied their right to return, guaranteed by law to all refugees, simply because of their ethnicity.
+The BDS movement’s aims and aspirations for basic human rights are irreproachable. They should be supported without reservation by all democratically-minded people and states.
+The international community has a longstanding history of supporting peaceful measures such as boycotts and disinvestment against companies that profit from human rights violations. International support for such measures was critical in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the racist colonial regime in former Rhodesia.
+If the international community commits to supporting BDS to end the occupation of Palestinian territory and the oppression of the Palestinian people, new hope will be lit for a just peace for Palestinians, Israelis and all people across the Middle East.
+The BDS movement has been endorsed by prominent figures, including the former Nobel Peace Prize winners Desmond Tutu and Mairead Maguire. It is gaining support from unions, academic associations, churches, and grassroots movements for the rights of refugees, immigrants, workers, women, indigenous peoples and the LGBTQI community. It is increasingly embraced by progressive Jewish groups and anti-racist movements across the world.
+Twelve* years since BDS’ launch, it’s high time for us to commit to doing no harm, and for all states to withdraw their complicity in Israel’s military occupation, racist apartheid rule, ongoing theft of Palestinian land, and other egregious human rights violations.
+Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign demonstrating that the international community is committed to supporting a just peace in the Middle East and using peaceful means to end military rule and broader violations of international law.
+My hope is that this nomination can be one humble but necessary step towards bringing forth a more dignified and beautiful future for all peoples of the region.
+
+* An earlier version of this statement mistakenly said the BDS movement was launched 11 years ago. It was launched in July 2005.

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+articleTitle: George Washington University Students Vote To Divest From Companies Complicit in Violations of Palestinian Rights
+pageTitle: George Washington University Students Vote To Divest From Companies Complicit in Violations of Palestinian Rights | BDS Movement
+description: April 24, 2018, Washington, DC — The George Washington University Student Association Senate has voted YES to Divest from corporations invested in...
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+
+---
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+April 24, 2018, Washington, DC — The George Washington University Student Association Senate has voted YES to Divest from corporations invested in the ongoing occupation of Palestine, in spite of efforts to challenge the integrity of the bill. These 9 multibillion-dollar, multinational corporations — the largest portion of which are weapons manufacturers — provide goods and services to Israeli military forces, which are deployed and utilized to bomb hospitals in Gaza, bulldoze Palestinians’ homes, construct illegal Apartheid walls, and further suppress and violate Palestinian human rights. These efforts to divest will give the university an opportunity to uphold its principles of inclusion and safety, and no longer be invested in corporations that cause harm to our students and their families at home.
+Two and a half years ago, the GW administration adhered to a call for the removal of a Palestinian flag from inside a students dorm room. One year ago, students declared that the Palestinian flag had no place at the walkout against Trump. With today's yes vote, the Student Association will be the voice of encouragement and the voice to lead effective conversations with administration in regards to the treatment of Palestinians on campus. We would like to thank the Student Association for standing on the right side of history, and standing up for Palestinian human rights.
+When The George Washington University was called on to stand in opposition to South African Apartheid, the University failed. This resolution gives the administration an opportunity to correct this wrong, and be on the right side of history. It is an opportunity to create a campus that calls for diversity, is socially responsible, and that wholeheartedly stands with Palestinians and their strive for liberation. Our next steps will be to further communicate our demands to the administration in regards to both, divesting from the 9 corporations as well as the general safety of Palestinians on our campus. This will be led by members of our coalition, as well as endorsing organizations, and we expect that our combined efforts will yield favorable results.
+This has been a long and hard journey, but definitely one that has been well fought. We thank our Palestinian members that have engaged in and experienced an absurd amount of emotional labor. We would like to thank our members and allies alike for their time and labor that was put into this campaign. Congratulations to The George Washington University Student Association on standing in solidarity with Palestine.
+We demand that the University administration #DivestThisTime.
+In Solidarity,
+Divest This Time

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+articleTitle: Palestinians: Giro d'Italia fueling Israel's lethal repression
+pageTitle: Palestinians: Giro d'Italia fueling Israel's lethal repression | BDS Movement
+description: May 5, 2018  — Palestinian civil society groups have accused Giro d’Italia cycling race of covering up Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and its...
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+---
+
+May 5, 2018  — Palestinian civil society groups have accused Giro d’Italia cycling race of covering up Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and its secret police’s repression against Giro protests.
+As the Giro d’Italia got underway in Jerusalem yesterday, Israeli forces were implementing a shoot-to-kill-or-maim policy, firing tear gas and live ammunition at Palestinian protesters in Gaza, wounding hundreds, 83 from live ammunition. Thousands have been injured since March 30, many for life, including 21-year-old cyclist Alaa Al-Daly, whose leg was amputated after being shot by Israeli snipers, ending his cycling career.
+Elsewhere, Israel’s secret police was busy oppressing and threatening Palestinians engaged in protesting the Giro d’Italia in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and within present-day Israel, despite race director Mauro Vegni’s assurances of no curbs on protests.
+Israeli secret police made threatening phone calls to Palestinian activists in the Galilee. An activist who received a phone call has given the following testimony:
+They tried to pressure us by all means to prevent the protest but our response was clear.
+We are planning legal, peaceful protest activities and do not need any permission from the police for them. We shall not ask [for any permission] as long as we are not required by law to do so.
+I told them: "You are not partners in our decision-making, and we are not working with you to tell you what we decide. Your direct or indirect threats will not work."
+
+The Israeli police will be closing down Palestinian towns along the Giro Stage 2 route for six full hours, according to a statement from the Tamra Popular Committee, a community grassroots organization from the Palestinian town in the north of Israel. Jewish towns in the same area will be closed for slightly over two hours, highlighting Israel’s racial discrimination against Palestinian citizens and what UN experts have described as its apartheid system.
+The Tamra Popular Committee condemned Giro’s sports-washing of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and asserted the its right to peaceful protest. The Giro route passes through tens of destroyed Palestinian villages and towns ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias and later the Israeli army during the 1948 Nakba.
+A key slogan raised by Palestinian refugees protesting the Giro is, “Don’t trespass on our stolen land.”
+In the occupied Palestinian West Bank, a group of Palestinian cyclists organized a peaceful protest ride from the city of Ramallah to Qalandia, where Israel’s sprawling military checkpoint and apartheid wall blocked their way. Heavily armed Israeli forces detained one of the team leaders of Cycling Palestine, the organizers of the protest, by for “trespassing,” despite the event taking place on occupied Palestinian land.
+The day before the race start, Giro director Vegni claimed that there would be no restrictions placed on anyone and that “with regards to absolute freedom of expression, if anyone wants to protest they will do so.”
+Sharaf Qutaifan of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said:
+To claim that somehow Israel’s well-oiled oppression machine would not be put into motion against Palestinians peacefully protesting the Giro shows just how far the race organizers will go to sports-wash Israel’s record of violent human rights abuses. Israel’s 10 million euro bribe is buying Giro’s conscious complicity at more than one level!
+Has Vegni not read about the dozens of Palestinians killed and thousands wounded, many for life, by Israel’s occupation forces in Gaza in the last few weeks? Did he really think Israeli forces would not crack down on Palestinians peacefully protesting the race?
+Since the race’s Israel start was announced, Giro has made one dishonest statement after another. From falsely presenting the Old City of occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem as if part of Israel, to claiming that the race would serve to “unite,” to maintaining that the race has nothing to do with politics, Giro has shown that Israel’s millions of euros in hush money was well spent.
+As the race continues, in Israel and in Italy, together with supporters of our human rights, we will continue to shine a spotlight on Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights and to build our nonviolent resistance in pursuit of freedom, justice and equality.
+
+The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) was initiated in 2004 to contribute to the struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. PACBI advocates for the boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, given their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law. Visit PACBI at https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi and follow us on Twitter @PACBI

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+articleTitle: Tunisian civil society calls for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel on the 7th anniversary of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity in Tunisia
+pageTitle: Tunisian civil society calls for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel on the 7th anniversary of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity in Tunisia | BDS Movement
+description: Almost one hundred Tunisian academics, artists, intellectuals and journalists have called for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel....
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+Almost one hundred Tunisian academics, artists, intellectuals and journalists have called for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. This call is published on the 7th anniversary of the revolution of freedom and dignity which paved the way for the advent of a democratic system in Tunisia.
+The appeal states in its preamble that “the recent recognition by US President Trump of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, with the proven complicity and support of some Arab regimes, offers Arab citizens a cruel but salutary reminder of the progress of the rampant normalization of relations of the Arab world with the Zionist colonial state."
+Responding to the call of the Palestinian civil society for Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions against Israel (BDS), the signatories declare their commitment to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and in particular to the international BDS movement.
+This call was signed by prominent academics, well-known artists and important political and labor union leaders. Civil society and especially Tunisian women are well represented among the signatories. Leaders of major civil society organizations and associations have joined this call, including the Tunisian General Labor Union (Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail - UGTT), the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates - ATFD) and the International Federation of Human Rights (Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme  - FIDH).
+The signatories pledge to fight all forms of normalization of relations of the Arab world with the Zionist colonial state. They invite their colleagues from the Tunisian community in Tunisia and abroad:
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+to refrain from participating in any form of academic and cultural cooperation, collaboration or joint project with Israeli institutions and research organizations;
+to advocate a comprehensive boycott of Israeli institutions at the national and international levels, including suspension of all forms of funding and subsidies to these institutions;
+to work toward the condemnation of Israeli policies by pressing for resolutions to be adopted by academic, professional and cultural associations and organizations in accordance with the principles of PACBI and BDS;
+to defend the Palestinian right to education and academic freedom, and to support the faculty and student of Palestinian universities in defending these rights;
+to support Palestinian cultural institutions and artists in their struggle against Israeli occupation, discrimination and apartheid and to promote Palestinian cultural production in Tunisia.
+
+Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the international BDS campaign, led by Palestinian civil society, aims to intensify economic and political pressure on Israel until it recognizes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and complies entirely with the precepts of international law.
+Professor Hafidha Chekir, Professor of Public Law and Vice President of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), “hopes that this call will help to create even more solidarity with the BDS movement around the world, to support the Palestinian people struggle to regain its rights to dignity, freedom and self-reliance, and above all to convince Arab leaders to accompany and support the legitimate demands of this people."
+Professor Larbi Chouikha of the Institute of Press and Information Sciences of Manouba believes that “any person loving justice, freedom, the respect for the right of peoples to self-determination, regardless of their confessional affiliations, identity, nationality and political commitments, must defend the Palestinian cause, which is a just and legitimate cause, and denounce the Zionist colonial state and its apartheid regime’s actions against the Palestinian people; it is the very meaning of the values ​​that underlie the Tunisian Revolution. »
+Professor Nihel Ben Amar of the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of the University of Carthage said that “Israel is violating with impunity the right to education and academic freedom. Its dangerous and incessant attacks on academic freedom spare neither international students and academics who travel to Palestine to study and work in Palestinian academic institutions, nor even Israeli academics who dare to criticize Israeli colonial policy and apartheid. Those wishing to defend academic freedom for all should support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions as long as Israel does not recognize the rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in international law.”
+The academic and political and labor union activist Jounaïdi Abdeljaoued considers that "the academic and cultural boycott of Zionist institutions and the rejection of the normalization with Israel should not mean any break in relations with the Palestinians living under the yoke of colonialism in the occupied territories. On the contrary, it is our mode of action as academics, intellectuals, artists and labor unionists to lift the embargo imposed on our brothers and sisters in Palestine and to force the apartheid Zionist regime to respect international legality and to abide by the UN resolutions that address the rights of the Palestinian people, and in the first place their right of return to their despoiled land.”
+Professor Baccar Gherib, former Dean of the Faculty of Juridical, Economic and Management Sciences of Jendouba, “signs [the call] because, by this position, civil societies, academics, intellectuals and artists from all over the world, who love universal humanistic values and are committed to the rights of peoples and their dignity, recall that Israel’s policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is a racist and colonialist policy and that all the violations of the basic rights of Palestinians that have lasted too long must to cease.”
+The mathematician Ahmed Abbes, of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, said that "the BDS movement is in essence centered on civil societies around the world. It draws its strength from the value placed on respect for human rights and international law, as well as a will to fight all forms of racism. It has found considerable resonance in Europe and the USA, but remains so far relatively undeveloped in the Arab world. This call from Tunisian civil society is a new milestone for the BDS movement that we hope will be followed by others throughout the Arab world.”
+The call can be viewed and signed by Tunisian academics, artists, intellectuals and journalists at the following address: tacbi.org

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+articleTitle: The BNC welcomes Booking.com decision to add legal warning to settlement reservations
+pageTitle: The BNC welcomes Booking.com decision to add legal warning to settlement reservations | BDS Movement
+description:   The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement for freedom, justice...
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+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement for freedom, justice and equality, welcomes the announcement by Booking.com that tourist reservations inside illegal settlements will now be labelled as a "high risk to safety and to human rights" along with using the term "occupied".Yet, despite the importance of this symbolic step, we call on Booking.com to abide by its moral and legal duty to stop facilitating all rentals in illegal Israeli settlements. By continuing to rent property built on stolen Palestinian land, including in occupied East Jerusalem, Booking.com is profiting from apartheid Israel’s war crimes and supporting its relentless ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians.

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+articleTitle: Pledge to #deactivateAirbnb on May 15, Nakba Day
+pageTitle: Pledge to #deactivateAirbnb on May 15, Nakba Day | BDS Movement
+description: After initially committing to stop listing rentals in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, Airbnb did a complete...
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+After initially committing to stop listing rentals in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, Airbnb did a complete reversal, and will now continue to allow rentals on stolen Palestinian land.
+Send a clear message to Airbnb by signing a pledge to deactivate your Airbnb account on May 15, Nakba Day – a day that commemorates Israel’s establishment through the ethnic cleansing of the majority of indigenous Palestinians from their homes and lands 71 years ago. Airbnb is enabling an ongoing Nakba – Israel’s continued and systematic dispossession of the Palestinian people.
+There's no neutrality in situations of injustice. Airbnb cannot simply donate away dirty profits, as they’ve said they will, and keep their hands clean of illegal occupation, knowing they contribute to inequality, land theft and racial discrimination.
+We are part of an international coalition of groups holding Airbnb accountable.
+Join us. Take the pledge to #deactivateAirbnb.

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+articleTitle: Boycott “Standing Together” for Whitewashing Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid
+pageTitle: Boycott “Standing Together” for Whitewashing Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid | BDS Movement
+description: “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid leader
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+As the mass solidarity movement against apartheid Israel’s genocide becomes more mainstream in the West, Israeli Zionist “grassroots” groups are making considerable attempts to co-opt the movement and steer it away from the comprehensive rights of the Palestinian people as stipulated in international law and from holding Israel accountable for its unspeakable crimes.Last year, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the BDS movement, called on people, organizations, and unions of conscience not to engage with a Zionist Israeli organization, Standing Together, particularly because of its insidious normalization and whitewashing of Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip.Since then, over a dozen “Friends of Standing Together” and other affinity groups have popped up in Europe, Canada, and the US –– necessitating a reiteration of PACBI’s call to boycott Standing Together. In addition to fundraising for the main Israeli Standing Together organization, these Zionist groups organize around Standing Together’s harmful agenda, actively striving to push Palestine solidarity groups, union organizers, and government officials away from the two basic solidarity demands on which a Palestinian consensus has existed for at least two decades:To be clear, the BDS Movement was founded on anti-racist principles and welcomes all conscientious people, including those struggling for racial, economic, indigenous, climate, social and gender justice, as well as principled anti-Zionist Jewish-Israelis who affirm the full rights of the Palestinian people under international law. One example is Boycott from Within, a group of anti-colonial Israelis which formed in response to the BDS call.Standing Together is no such group, as the detailed research below affirms. Its feel-good common ground messaging, leftist posturing, and claim to represent “both sides” may seem seductive to some in the West. Yet a closer examination of its dishonest principles, its complicit Zionist partners, its leadership’s anti-Palestinian racist rhetoric, and its aggressive attempts to undermine meaningful solidarity with Palestinian liberation in the West reveal a dangerous propaganda operation. Regardless of the intentions of some of its individual members, Standing Together ultimately serves to shield Israel from accountability and deter or undermine meaningful solidarity efforts to end complicity with Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, military occupation and now genocide against the Indigenous Palestinian people. Furthermore, the group cynically tokenizes Palestinians with Israeli citizenship to exploit Western identity politics, and it builds on the ultimately racist urge to platform Palestinians only so long as they have Israeli co-sponsorship or to favor “good Israelis” over any Palestinian voice at all.PACBI reiterates the call to boycott Standing Together and its affinity groups. A False SymmetryReducing Israel’s regime of oppression against Palestinians to “the occupation,” meaning of Gaza and the West Bank, Standing Together deceptively tries to shift attention to “hatred between Israelis and Palestinians” as a primary focus. This attempts to turn the spotlight away from the increasingly exposed Israeli regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid against all Palestinians, including its denial of Palestinian refugees’ rights. Even B’Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organization, in 2021 recognized Israeli apartheid in a report titled, “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid.”Standing Together’s “Theory of Change” is that “peace” can be achieved mainly through “open minds… and hearts filled with compassion and empathy” — rather than through abolishing the pillars of structural oppression based on justice, freedom, equality and adherence to international law. Making a false symmetry between the colonized and the colonizer and failing to acknowledge fundamental Palestinian rights, as Standing Together does, are not only dishonest and unethical, but also normalize oppression.Standing Together is a relatively sophisticated upgrade on failed Israeli normalization initiatives of the past that have attempted to make Israel, a settler-colonial apartheid state built on the ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Palestinians, seem normal, albeit with some problems. Similar normalization attempts were made and utterly discredited during the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa. A post from UK Friends of Standing Together’s X account, for instance, is one of many that demonstrate this dishonesty. It claims that there can be no “freedom” without “acknowledgement” of both “opposing narratives of 1948” — equating the Nakba, the mass ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous Palestinian people, with a cynical “Israeli Independence Day” – celebrating the establishment of the Zionist settler-colony. Another post offers a visual representation of the group’s both-sidesism, with homophobic undertones.While Standing Together pays lip-service to ending “the occupation” and “war,” it mainly blames the current “far-right government” or its leaders, as exceptional figures in an otherwise normal, if not noble state. This deliberately obscures the reality of the systemic and foundational features of Israel’s decades-old settler colonial apartheid since 1948. For example, in early 2025, the group launched a petition titled “Saving the Abductees, Refusing the War,” which calls on the Israeli public to “refuse to cooperate with Netanyahu and Ben Gvir's war,” with a disclaimer excluding the Israeli soldiers directly perpetrating the genocide: “It is important for us to emphasize—the call is not to the soldiers.” Rejection of International LawDespite its alleged focus on Israeli society, Standing Together has yet to officially name and commit to ending Israel’s genocide against the people in Gaza and Israel’s crime against humanity of apartheid, both of which have been well-established by United Nations human rights experts, Amnesty International, and many international law scholars, including world authorities on the study of the Holocaust and genocide and the International Association of Genocide Scholars, among others.Crucially, the group also refuses to recognize the full rights of the Palestinian people under international law—chiefly the right of refugees to return, the most important of all as it pertains to the absolute majority of Palestinians. This right, enshrined in customary international and human rights law, has been repeatedly affirmed by the absolute majority in the UN General Assembly. Standing Together’s “theory of change” further dismisses “human rights rhetoric” and “abstract principles of justice” as “polarizing,” “arrogant,” and “moralizing,” even arguing that international law is “elitist.” This chimes well with the Israeli settler-colonial modus operandi of dismissing international law as “irrelevant.” Complicit Funders & PartnershipsStanding Together and its affiliates have routinely collaborated with racist anti-Palestinian organizations in the West, including Israel lobby groups, that are irrefutably complicit in funding, whitewashing, and/or advocating for Israel’s crimes. In the US, Standing Together co-sponsored an “Arab-Jewish leadership program” with the Charleston branch of the Jewish Federation, an Israel lobby group, and a militant organization that runs Mechinat Rabin, one of Israel’s many “pre-army” programs.In the UK, Standing Together has collaborated with prominent pro-Israel lobby group BICOM, which featured the organization in its in-house magazine Fathom Journal. Standing Together was also endorsed by the Jewish Labour Movement, a pro-Israel lobby faction of the UK Labour Party and member of the World Zionist Organization, which has been instrumental in the repression of Palestinian solidarity in the UK. It has even lobbied the British government to support the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, coordinated by the anti-Palestinian Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), which funds normalization projects and whose endorsers are predominantly Zionist organisations. The US Congress adopted a version of this fund in 2020 with support from leading Israel lobby groups like AIPAC. The US iteration includes a clause that conditions funding on a commitment not to submit evidence of Israel’s crimes to the International Criminal Court and allows for Israeli settlers with factories on illegally occupied Palestinian land to receive funding as “peace initiatives” if they hire Palestinians.A Pattern of Anti-Palestinian RacismSeveral members of Standing Together’s leadership have expressed racist anti-Palestinian views and repeated propaganda justifying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In a post on X, for example, the group’s National Co-Director trolled elderly Gazan doctor Mustafa Elmasri, who later died after crossing the Rafah border. In another post, he attacked Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi as a “neo-Nazi” the same day she was taken hostage by the Israeli army. He has also spread debunked Israeli propaganda, accusing UNRWA of “war crimes” in a post he later deleted. The editor of Standing Together’s “alternative media platform” has expressed more solidarity with and understanding for the reservist soldiers committing the Gaza genocide than with those who are angry at and criticize the genocidaires. This is a structural issue with Standing Together. Another member of the group, a contributor to the same media platform, and a reservist who served in the genocide, claimed that Israel’s Nuseirat massacre, which killed at least 276 Palestinians, was “necessary” in the absence of a “hostage deal.”This reveals a troubling organizational culture of anti-Palestinian racism that seems common among Standing Together members. In one example, a member posted that Israel’s “sterile” method of killing “at the push of the button” during its genocide is a morally superior form of violence as opposed to a “barbaric” form, implicitly attributed to none other than Palestinians. In another instance, an Israeli protester was pushed away at a Standing Together action for a sign critical of Zionism.Undermining Meaningful International Solidarity with Palestinian RightsThough at its peak Standing Together’s membership constitutes a negligible percentage of the Israeli population, the group alleges to “speak for the majority” and claims that the majority of Israelis “hold a genuine interest in an equal and just society,” without presenting any verifiable evidence. During a major press effort that included CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, and TIME, Standing Together’s leaders have repeatedly claimed that Israel’s assault on Gaza goes “against the will of the people.” And yet, a July 2025 poll found that 79% of Jewish Israelis say they are “not so troubled” or “not troubled at all” by the genocide in Gaza. Another public opinion poll reported in the Israeli media in May 2025 revealed that 82% of Jewish Israelis support the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and 56% support the forced expulsion of even Palestinian citizens of present-day Israel. Israel lobby and anti-Palestinian groups in Europe have deployed Standing Together to undermine support for BDS as the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, particularly in major trade unions, including in Sweden and the UK. It is curious that Standing Together, which is supposedly focused on issues within Israeli society, would suddenly seek such an extensive, well-oiled international platform, with more than a dozen affiliates lobbying western institutions on its behalf. Then again, the global Palestine solidarity movement has never been stronger, and Standing Together, with its liberal façade and absurd claim to represent “both sides,” falters once its insidious agenda is exposed, just like similar normalization initiatives in the past. Their messaging plays a key role in Israel’s propaganda strategy of whitewashing the systems of oppression baked into the state in order to “save the soul” of genocidal Israel. Standing Together is only the latest, most insidious normalization outfit produced by the almost extinct (and inherently oxymoronic) Zionist “left” to reclaim its past gatekeeping role and to undermine meaningful and impactful solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle, with BDS at its core. It should be boycotted by all who truly value justice and support fundamental human rights.

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+articleTitle: Don’t Pinkwash Israel’s Crimes! Palestinian Queers Call on Global Queers To Stand With Us.
+pageTitle: Don’t Pinkwash Israel’s Crimes! Palestinian Queers Call on Global Queers To Stand With Us. | BDS Movement
+description: While queer and LGBTQIA+ people around the world celebrate the International Day Against Homophabia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) and Pride Parades,...
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+While queer and LGBTQIA+ people around the world celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) and Pride Parades, Palestinian queers are living in a state of horror.Apartheid Israel’s militarized police force is attacking us with tear gas and stun grenades, chasing and arresting our activists while marching peacefully in protest. What are we protesting? Israel’s massacres in Gaza; its atrocities, dispossession and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem; Jordan Valley, Galilee, Naqab (Negev) and West Bank; and its support for far-right racist attacks against the Indigenous Palestinian communities everywhere, queer and straight alike.Testimonies of Palestinian queers living inside present-day Israel detail the brutality of the heavily militarized Israeli police forces in repressing peaceful rallies chanting in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, where 4 families are being forcibly displaced from their homes to settle in them Jewish-Israeli settlers. This is gradual ethnic cleansing!Ghadir al Shafie, co-founder of Aswat, gave the following testimony from her son, who attended a peaceful rally at their hometown Akka:A few days ago, while I was driving home from a meeting near Yaffa, my son Jude, who is 17, called. He was shouting, I could almost hear his heart racing: “Mama, the police are chasing us with tear gas bombs and stun grenades; they’re brutal. They are closing in on us.I was in total shock, terrified for my son’s life.Other testimonies from queer activists attending peaceful marches reveal unprecedented police brutality and repression against Palestinians.We were just getting organized to begin the rally in Haifa when we heard stun grenades followed by an intense wave of tear gas bombs. I remember looking at the sky and it was all full of clouds of smoke. We started running to nearby allies only to be attacked by armed far-right Jewish-Israeli mobs chanting ‘Death to the Arabs’. It was horrifying!Sisters and brothers, today, we struggle for queer rights as part of our political, social and human rights. Our struggle for queer rights is also intersectionally connected to worldwide struggles for Indigenous rights, women’s rights, colored people’s lives, Black people’s lives, and for climate rights.We call on queer and LGBTQIA+ groups and activists to support Palestinians by, at the very least, boycotting Israel’s pinkwashing events, such as Tel Aviv Pride events, Tel Aviv Film Festival or any similar activity.As in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, we ask for your solidarity, and the most effective form of solidarity with our liberation struggle is refusing to cover up, Pinkwash or normalize our oppressors and the institutions and activities that are part and parcel of its system of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid.The courage the whole world is witnessing among Palestinians all over historic Palestine is inspiring courageous solidarity worldwide. Palestinians, including queers, need your meaningful solidarity to help us end Israel’s 73 years of brutal oppression.

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+articleTitle: Ten Facts You Need To Know About The Palestinian Nakba
+pageTitle: Ten Facts You Need To Know About The Palestinian Nakba | BDS Movement
+description:   Apartheid Israel’s colonial violence and naked aggression have never stopped. But neither has Palestinian resilience, popular resistance...
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+Apartheid Israel’s colonial violence and naked aggression have never stopped. But neither has Palestinian resilience, popular resistance and sumud (steadfastness). In Gaza, Jenin, Beita, Masafer Yatta, the Jordan Valley, Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, and Al-Naqab, across historic Palestine and in exile, Palestinians stand united against Israel’s regime of settler colonialism and apartheid. With the rise of the most openly racist far-right government in Israel, Palestinians have been subjected to renewed and intensified campaigns of ethnic cleansing and settlement construction, land and water theft, repeated massacres in besieged Gaza, mass arrests, and restriction of movement. This year, Israel’s occupation forces and illegal settlers have murdered over 150 Palestinians, including 26 children, and it is only May. And still, we rise! We shall continue the struggle for our liberation and our inalienable rights, including our right to self-determination and the right of refugees to return home. Onward, we march for freedom, justice, equality and dignity!Here are 10 facts you need to know about the Palestinian Nakba: 1- Between 1947 and 1949, Israel and pre-state Zionist militias forced between 750,000 and 1,000,000 Indigenous Palestinian Arabs into exile, making them refugees. 2 - Today, there are around 8 million Palestinian refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and neighbouring Arab countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. Apartheid Israel has persistently denied their UN-sanctioned right to return to their homes, lands and other property simply because they are not Jewish.3 - The ethnic cleansing during the Nakba was a deliberate, planned and systematic campaign carried out to create what human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Al-Haq, and B’Tselem call “a Jewish supremacy” in historic Palestine, which was overwhelmingly populated by Palestinian Arabs before 1948.4 - Contrary to Zionist mythology, pre-state Zionist militias began their ethnic cleansing of Palestinian towns and villages months before the establishment of the State of Israel. The massacre and depopulation of the Palestinian village of Deir Yasin, for instance, took place on 9 April 1948. 5 - Approximately 150,000 Palestinians remained inside what became Israel's borders in 1948, many of them internally displaced. They were eventually granted Israeli citizenship but lived for years under military rule. To this day, Palestinian citizens of Israel live as second-class citizens in their own homeland, subjected to a system of apartheid enshrined in dozens of racist laws that discriminate against them. 6 - During the Nakba, Zionist militias and, later, Israeli forces systematically destroyed about 530 Palestinian towns and villages to prevent exiled Palestinian refugees from returning. Many homes that remained standing were repopulated with Jewish-Israeli colonial settlers.  7 - The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an openly racist pillar of the Zionist settler-colonial project in Palestine, acquired approximately 78 percent of its land holdings from the Israeli state between 1949 and 1953, much of it agricultural land of ethnically cleansed Palestinian refugees that the state had confiscated and designated as “absentee property.” The JNF holds this stolen Palestinian land as “the perpetual property of the Jewish People.”  8 - The Nakba did not end in 1948 but continues to this day in the form of apartheid Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities; theft of Palestinian land for Jewish-Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory as well as inside present-day Israel; destruction of Palestinian homes and agricultural land; revocation of residency rights; expulsions; demographic engineering; and periodic massacres. 9 - Israel is currently attempting to implement the largest mass ethnic cleansing since 1968, targeting some 1,300 Palestinians living in eight villages in the area of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. Many of the Palestinians in Masafer Yatta have already fled Israeli massacres in Al-Naqab, committed by Israeli forces during and in the aftermath of the Nakba.  What is happening now in Masafer Yatta is a prime example of the ongoing Nakba. It repeats itself still today in Al-Naqab, Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, and across the territory under Israeli control. Indigenous Palestinians are being forced from their homes by state-sponsored violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers, Israeli police, and armed, fascist Israeli settlers. 10 - Israel has a law that prohibits Palestinians–second-class–citizens of the state from commemorating the Nakba. This does not stop Palestinians from remembering and insisting on our right to return to our ancestral lands. Commemorate the Nakba wherever you are, share the stories of the Nakba from Palestinians, and join BDS campaigns, the most effective way to support our struggle to achieve our internationally recognized rights, including the right of return for refugees.

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+articleTitle: #Nakba75: Ben-Gurion to Ben-Gvir: Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance
+pageTitle: #Nakba75: Ben-Gurion to Ben-Gvir: Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance | BDS Movement
+description:   On this earth there is what deserves living for:  April's hesitancy, the smell of bread, …the beginning of love, grass...
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+On this earth, there is what makes lifes worth  living for, for   April's hesitancy, the smell of bread, …the beginning of love, grass on a stone, …and the conquerors’ dread of memories.- Mahmoud Darwish Even 75 years after the destruction of the Palestinian homeland and the ethnic cleansing of most of the Indigenous people of Palestine by Zionist militias and later the Israeli military, and despite the ongoing Nakba, especially the rolling massacres in Gaza, on this earth, there is much that “is worth  living for.” The promise of freedom, justice, of refugees’ return to their lands, of self-determination, of our people’s reunion, and of the smell of fresh taboon bread in the beautiful Palestinian mornings, untainted by the miseries of relentless mournings over our martyrs and stolen land, are all well worth living for. Many around the world are witnessing the slaughter of entire families in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, including the intentional murder of our children in their sleep, again. Weeks ago, they witnessed Israel’s latest pogrom by fascist Jewish-Israeli militias against Palestinians in Huwara near Nablus in the occupied Palestinian territory. Many have witnessed senior Israeli government minister Bezalel Smotrich, a self-declared “fascist,” inciting to state terrorism by saying, “I think Huwara needs to be erased. The state should be the one to do that.” Many may have seen the savage violence unleashed repeatedly by Israeli forces and fascist fundamentalist settlers against Muslim and Christian Palestinian worshippers and holy places. But many may forget that acts of “incremental genocide” against Palestinians, including pogroms, massacres, sieges and other forms of extreme colonial violence, are as Israeli as the flag. Labor Party leader Matan Vilnai in 2008 threatened Palestinians with “a bigger Holocaust” if resistance groups did not stop their armed retaliation to Israel’s criminal siege and violent attacks on Gaza. A recent error by Israel’s censors has accidentally revealed secret documents exposing Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion’s championing of “wiping out” Palestinian villages during the 1948 Nakba, with a minister in his first government admitting, “Let us say that instances of rape occurred in [the ethnically cleansed Palestinian city] Ramle. I can forgive instances of rape, but I will not forgive other acts,” such as forcibly removing “jewelry from women.” Ben-Gurion, whose guiding principle was maximum land with minimum Palestinian-Arabs, has led the planned campaign of ethnic cleansing of a majority of the Indigenous Palestinians, a crime against humanity that the current far-right Israeli “national security” minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was convicted for supporting terrorism, could only dream of perpetrating. From Ben-Gurion to Ben-Gvir, the Nakba continues. Still, Israel’s new far-right government is the most racist, fundamentalist, corrupt, authoritarian, sexist and homophobic ever—without masks. It constitutes an escalation in Israel’s ongoing regime of colonial oppression against Indigenous Palestinians that has existed since the creation of Israel as a settler colony in Palestine. It simultaneously presents a potentially irreversible rupture with the status quo in its far-reaching plans for judicial, social and cultural “reforms” affecting Jewish Israeli society. Already, Moody’s has downgraded Israel’s credit outlook following months of economic instability, unprecedented upheaval in the prized high-tech sector and an accelerating capital flight. This provides advocates of Palestinian rights worldwide, particularly in the BDS movement, an even more urgent responsibility and an opportunity that is unprecedented in 75 years.Opportunities alone do not lead to change; they only provide the fertile ground for it. The anti-racist BDS movement, led by the largest Palestinian coalition ever, provides the most effective form of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. After 75 years of settler-colonialism and apartheid, and facing an Israeli government that has shed all masks, we demand international recognition of the fact that Israel’s regime of oppression constitutes apartheid, as well as an end to state, corporate and institutional complicity in it as a fulfillment of legal duties and a moral obligation to do no harm. This is a prerequisite of solidarity, not charity. We call on our partners worldwide to use this unprecedented opportunity to build people’s power. This demands two parallel tracks:Broadening our principled, intersectional coalitions to grow our cultural, academic, sports and economic boycott and divestment campaigns and to push in the mainstream, including the UN, the obligation to impose targeted, lawful sanctions to dismantle Israeli apartheid, just as South African apartheid was abolished; and Forming new tactical alliances with many new critics of the far-right Israeli regime with whom we may disagree on many things except the necessity of meaningful pressure on the Israeli government. This entails, at the very least, cutting military-security trade and military funding, as the case may be; banning settlement goods; and divestment from Israel Bonds and from corporations and banks that bankroll this regime. As the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish says, the colonizing conquerors’ dread of memories, the memories of the dispossessed, displaced, and colonized Indigenous people, is also a source of hope. It reminds us at the darkest hour of their oppression that despite their might, we can and shall prevail. These conquerors are not just morally bankrupt; they dread our resilience, our resistance, our sumud [steadfastness], and our fertile memories of their settler-colonial conquest and apartheid regime, as well as of the beauty, dignity and love that preceded it and that will undoubtedly come after dismantling it.

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+articleTitle: The right to live without Arabs
+pageTitle: The right to live without Arabs | BDS Movement
+description: The US Secretary of Justice just said what in a recent White House meeting? “Blacks are buying apartments in white towns in the South and this...
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+The US Secretary of Justice just said what in a recent White House meeting?“Blacks are buying apartments in white towns in the South, and this is driving white people out of these towns because they don't want to live with Blacks. One must ensure there are Judges who understand this in the Supreme Court.”He hasn’t. A US official wouldn’t dare say that today. But replacing “Black” with “Arab” and “white people” with “Jews,” you get exactly what the Israeli Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, said recently to justify his far-right government’s push for judicial “reform.”“Arabs are buying apartments in Jewish towns in the Galilee, and this is driving Jews out of these towns because they don't want to live with Arabs. One must ensure there are Judges who understand this in the Supreme Court,” Levin said.This is not equivalent to a KKK leader in the US or some head of a fringe fascist party in Europe saying this. This is a senior Israeli leader. The closest equivalent is statements by leaders of the defunct apartheid regime in South Africa.The fact that Levin’s quote tries to hide, though, is that Israel’s Supreme Court has already been for decades a pillar of what B’Tselem calls, “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid.”The court has consistently rejected demands for full equality of Israeli citizens as that would pose an existential threat to Israel as a Jewish supremacy.The Supreme Court has approved tens of racist laws that have made 93% of the land within Israel’s pre-1967 borders available only to its Jewish citizens, denying Indigenous Palestinian citizens the right to buy or even lease land in that area.It has also upheld a law empowering “admissions committees” of Jewish-only settlements built on state land in the Naqab (Negev) and Galilee to filter out Palestinians by rejecting housing applicants if deemed “unsuitable to the community’s social life.”These committees, which include a representative from the racist Jewish Agency or the World Zionist Organization, are authorized to adopt unique admission criteria for exclusion based on their “special characteristics,” such as having a “Zionist vision.”Since its creation through ethnic cleansing, Israel has always been a settler colony imposing an apartheid regime against Indigenous Palestinians–a “herrenvolk democracy” for colonial settlers & a brutal tyranny for Palestinians. #DismantleApartheidFor further reading, check out our analysis of Israel’s new far-right government: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities.

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+articleTitle: From Standing Rock to Occupied Jerusalem: We Resist Desecration of our Burial Sites and Colonizing our Indigenous Lands
+pageTitle: From Standing Rock to Occupied Jerusalem: We Resist Desecration of our Burial Sites and Colonizing our Indigenous Lands | BDS Movement
+description: The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society that leads the global BDS movement, sends a message...
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+The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society that leads the global BDS movement, sends a message of solidarity to the sovereign Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The people of Palestine supports you and all those standing with you right now in North Dakota to protect your tribal lands and resist the desecration and destruction of your sacred burial sites at the hands of the Energy Transfer Partners corporation and the Dakota Access Pipeline they are building.
+The BNC supports the restoration of all lands guaranteed by treaty to the Standing Rock Sioux and all other indigenous nations. As indigenous Palestinians, we pledge to stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples around the world, including in Turtle Island, in their struggles for justice, self-determination, restoration of rights and respect for their heritage.
+Palestinians understand all too well how settler-colonial authorities use resource extraction and other economic and bureaucratic pretences as a way to solidify control over indigenous land and dispossess indigenous people. When we look at Standing Rock, we see our indigenous sisters and brothers defending their land, their identity, their dignity and their heritage.
+Your resistance to the pipeline project defends not only the rights of all those who utilize the watershed of the Missouri river from potential environmental catastrophe; it ultimately defends all of us from continued fossil fuel extraction at a time when climate change threatens us all.
+When we look at Standing Rock, we also see the attempts of authorities with a still-prevalent colonial mentality to vilify, criminalize, and ultimately disappear indigenous people on their own land.
+The Palestinian people have firsthand experience with a colonial power desecrating our burial sites, destroying our indigenous communities, appropriating our culture, and otherwise gradually erasing our centuries-old heritage.
+Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, with the help of the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, has ruthlessly destroyed and desecrated large portions of the ancient Palestinian Ma’manullah, or Mamilla, Cemetery in Jerusalem to build the so-called “Museum of Tolerance,” without any sense of irony. Mamilla is a Muslim burial ground and holy site believed to date back to the 7th century. Numerous Sufi saints and thousands of other Arab officials, scholars, notables, and Jerusalem Palestinian families, including companions of the Prophet Muhammad, have been buried in the cemetery over the last 1000 years.
+Since 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the US and the Campaign to Preserve Mamilla Cemetery, led by Palestinian figures with direct connection to some of those buried in Mamilla, have worked to halt construction of the new facility and preserve what remains of the site.
+The BDS movement has learned much from and has been profoundly inspired by the history of resistance to other settler-colonial projects, such as the more than 500 years of indigenous resistance to the genocidal European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere, including the United States. Your tribe and your many allies are part of a grand tradition of resilience and resistance in the face of dispossession of ancestral lands, cultural destruction, forced relocation and ethnic cleansing, brutal wars and genocide.
+We owe the indigenous people of Turtle Island a great debt for lighting the way and showing what it means to resiliently resist colonialism generation after generation for more than half a millennium.
+The BNC was dismayed but not surprised to learn that the multinational security corporation G4S has been contracted to provide security services for the pipeline construction on your land by Energy Transfer Partners. G4S is involved in human rights abuses around the world including in Palestine, where the company provides services to illegal Israeli colonies, to military checkpoints, and to prisons that are infamous for using torture and inhumane treatment against Palestinian prisoners, including children.
+We were particularly horrified to learn that on September 4 defenders of your ancestral land were attacked with dogs and pepper spray, a chemical weapon, used by a different private security company hired to protect pipeline construction.
+The BNC calls for intensifying worldwide boycott and divestment campaigns against G4S and all private security companies that violate our human rights and use weapons and violence against the indigenous people whose land they are operating on and against oppressed communities the world over.
+Once again, violence and brutality are being used to attempt to control a people standing up for their land, their culture, and the Earth. Once again, the resistance will not be contained or curtailed by the violence and intimidation tactics of the oppressors.
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+The BNC is committed to building stronger ties of solidarity between our peoples and movements, and we will work with our partners in North America to make this a reality. From Palestine to Standing Rock, we shall stand united against colonialism, corporate criminality and for our inalienable right to freedom, justice and equality.

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+articleTitle: Activists Put Focus on PUMA's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid at 75th Anniversary Shareholders Meeting
+pageTitle: Activists Put Focus on PUMA's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid at 75th Anniversary Shareholders Meeting | BDS Movement
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+On the occasion of PUMA’s 75th anniversary, the company’s image took a hit. Over a full week of actions, the global #BoycottPUMA coalition used PUMA’s own #ThisIsPUMA slogan to expose its role in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.The newly-launched searing ThisIsPUMA.com website highlighted PUMA’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid regime. Palestinians, including more than 200 sports teams, are calling for international pressure on PUMA to end its partnership with the Israel Football Association (IFA), which governs and advocates for teams in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Thousands sent letters to PUMA and its top shareholders calling for PUMA to finally end the unethical IFA contract.Using social media, targeted online ads, and posters in cities from Kuala Lumpur to London, campaigners “hijacked” PUMA’s online presence to show that its claim of a “devotion to universal equality” is nothing more than a whitewash of its support for Israeli apartheid.Ahead of @PUMA's AGM tomorrow, we're taking over PUMA's online presence - demanding it stops supporting Israel's land theft by ending its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association.Get involved https://t.co/jyGCNGktVg#ThisIsPUMA #BoycottPUMA #ForeverFaster pic.twitter.com/OmBJTqnJen— PSC (@PSCupdates) May 23, 2023View this post on InstagramA post shared by BDS Malaysia (@bds_malaysia)Spotted around London. Posters have appeared highlighting @puma's support for Israeli oppression of Palestinians.As people protest at the AGM, we’re taking over PUMA’s online presence. Retweet using the hashtags #ForeverFaster #ThisIsPUMAMore info: https://t.co/nXGq3BFygL pic.twitter.com/E4BpvEGvbF— PSC (@PSCupdates) May 24, 2023On May 24, activists travelled from across Europe to PUMA’s shareholder's meeting in Germany. Right in the middle of “PUMA Town,” where even the manhole covers are adorned with the PUMA logo, arriving shareholders were met with Boycott PUMA banners, posters of Palestinian footballers as young as 14 killed by Israeli soldiers, chants, and Palestinian flags.Good morning @PUMA!We're here at the shareholders meeting calling on PUMA to end support for Israeli apartheid oppressing millions of Palestinians!Join actions online: https://t.co/WhnIcWkct9#ThisIsPUMA #BoycottPuma #ForeverFaster pic.twitter.com/U8oaPqZSxH— PACBI (@PACBI) May 24, 2023Activists from across Europe were inside and out of the @PUMA shareholders meeting in Germany, urging it to end complicity in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land.Write to PUMA shareholders now:https://t.co/WhnIcWkKiH#ThisIsPUMA #BoycottPUMA #ForeverFaster pic.twitter.com/Y3WpIqxvVc— PACBI (@PACBI) May 25, 2023Just meters away from the entrance to PUMA headquarters, activists wearing “Ask Me About #BoycottPUMA” t-shirts distributed flyers and explained to concerned employees and shareholders PUMA’s ties to illegal Israeli settlements, a war crime under international law.Over the loudspeaker system, campaigners invited PUMA employees in the rooftop café to join the protests to make PUMA a more ethical company, recalled that while PUMA celebrates its 75th anniversary, Palestinians are marking 75 years of violent Israeli oppression, and called out PUMA’s lies from inside the shareholders meeting in real-time.We're still here @PUMA!And we heard you're talking about us inside the shareholders meeting!We'll keep protesting until you end your complicity in Israeli apartheid!Join online https://t.co/WhnIcWkct9#ThisIsPUMA #BoycottPuma #ForeverFaster pic.twitter.com/UvSuyDU7YJ— PACBI (@PACBI) May 24, 2023PUMA was, in fact, forced to acknowledge the protests in front of more than 200 of its shareholders at the start of the meeting.Activist shareholders then punctured PUMA’s false claims that it has no ties with illegal Israeli settlements. Speaking for nearly 20 minutes, they provided shareholders with detailed information, citing official sources, including a leaked PUMA internal memo (see questions below). They asked PUMA how it can continue to lie to its shareholders, employees, business partners, and ambassadors. They highlighted the risks of criminal prosecution and civil suits against PUMA management over its support for Israel’s war crimes.Shareholders gave a thumbs-up to the activists and complimented them for the thoughtful, pertinent questions.PUMA could do no better than to respond curtly with its tired “no ties” lie, which left shareholders wondering why it was evading the questions.The impact of the campaign is evident, as major sports teams such as the Oakland Roots, Luton Town, Qatar Sports Club, Forest Green Rovers, and Malaysia’s top university have all dropped or pledged not to sign with PUMA in response to the campaign. In the leaked memo, PUMA admits it has had to deal with an increase in expressions of concern from its own business partners and brand ambassadors.The impact couldn’t have been clearer, however, than during the shareholders meeting, when PUMA’s CEO accidentally referred to the “Better Cotton Initiative,” or BCI, as “BDS,” a reference to the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which leads the global Boycott PUMA campaign.PUMA is clearly haunted by the growing boycott campaign and knows that Israeli settlements are illegal and bad for its image. Otherwise, it wouldn’t put so much energy into trying to entrench its lies about not having a relationship with them.The activists left PUMA Town, encouraging PUMA to instead direct its energies and apply its “Forever Faster” slogan to ending its complicity in Israeli apartheid by dropping the IFA partnership.They signed off with a Terminator-esque “we’ll be back,” vowing to maintain the pledge of #NoRestForPUMA until it stops supporting Israel’s violations of basic Palestinian rights.Plans are already in place for the next Boycott PUMA Global Day of Action, set for June 24, 2023.Questions from Activist Shareholder 1PUMA has a sponsorship contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA), as the IFA annual report shows, which is due to expire in June 2024.Human Rights Watch has documented that the IFA, the governing body of football in Israel, includes in its official leagues teams based in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Israeli settlements are land grabs and constitute a war crime according to international law. The United Nations, the EU and its member states do not recognize illegal Israeli settlements as part of Israel.According to HRW, illegal Israeli settlement teams “contribute to and benefit from serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.” They are built on land that has been unlawfully seized from Palestinians and provide employment and other services to illegal settlements.In its 280-page 2022 report entitled “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel system of domination and crime against humanity,” Amnesty International called on businesses to ensure that their own activities “are not contributing to or benefiting from” Israel’s system of apartheid.Legal Scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has stated, “Germany and the EU should not allow PUMA's activities in the occupied [Palestinian] territories. Countries and their domicile corporations should not have economic relations with Israeli settlements because they are illegal under international law, and the UN Security Council has directed the international community not to assist the settlements in any way.”In 2018, 235 Palestinian sports teams, some of whom have lost promising young football players to Israeli sniper fire, called on PUMA to end its complicity in Israeli apartheid. Since that time, more than 138,000 people have joined that call. Sports teams such as the Oakland Roots in the United States, Luton Town in the UK, premier league Qatar Sports Club, and Malaysia’s top university football team all have dropped PUMA over its complicity in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.A leaked internal PUMA memo acknowledged in 2021 that the company has “seen an increase in the number of requests from [their] business partners and ambassadors” over its involvement in Israel’s denial of basic Palestinian human rights.In response to the campaign, PUMA has:Does PUMA agree with the UN, the EU and the German government that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are illegal and not part of Israel?Considering that PUMA’s contract is directly with the IFA, which governs and advocates on behalf of illegal settlement teams, how does PUMA substantiate its claim of having no ties with illegal Israeli settlement teams to its shareholders, partners, ambassadors, employees, and customers?PUMA’s annual report says it “conducts regular due diligence on human rights & labor, environmental and integrity risks for its own activities.” Has PUMA’s contract with the IFA, which advocates maintaining illegal Israeli settlements constituting a war crime, been assessed as a risk for the company? And if not, why?Given the growing boycott campaign and reputational damage inflicted on PUMA, will PUMA heed the call from Indigenous Palestinians and the recommendations from Amnesty International and legal scholar Michael Lynk to finally end its complicity in Israel’s human rights violations?Questions from activist shareholder 2As the International Bar Association has noted, corporations and their officers and managers have increasingly been “investigated and, in some cases, criminally charged and convicted or faced civil suits for core international crimes, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity.”The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has clarified that companies operating in areas affected by gross human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity have an obligation to “engage in heightened human rights due diligence” and to “commit to active engagement with local communities” affected by these violations. The Working Group identified the forcible displacement of people from their communities as a case in which heightened human rights due diligence is necessitated.Prominent international and Israeli human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and B’Tselem, have issued recent reports concluding that Israel is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid against Palestinians.UN Security Council resolution 2334 reaffirmed that Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory “constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.” Israeli settlements result in the forcible displacement of the Palestinians from their lands and constitute a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.PUMA has a contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA), the governing body responsible for teams and sports facilities in illegal Israeli settlements.PUMA’s annual report states that it performs human rights due diligence in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. Has PUMA implemented heightened due diligence, given its direct relationship with an Israeli actor complicit in war crimes? If not, why? If so, has the due diligence been published?Which, if any, Palestinian stakeholders has PUMA engaged with in order to gain a “sound understanding” of the impact of its activities on local communities as recommended by the UN?Given the increased focus on criminal liability for corporations contributing to the commission of international crimes and PUMA’s complicity in the commission of a war crime, does PUMA consider the company, its officers, and managers at risk of criminal prosecution and/or massive civil lawsuits? Has PUMA seriously assessed this daunting risk?Does PUMA consider ending its contract with the IFA as long as the IFA includes teams based in illegal Israeli settlements as a means for mitigating the risk of being held criminally liable?

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+articleTitle: International writers stand against Germany’s anti-Palestinian racism
+pageTitle: International writers stand against Germany’s anti-Palestinian racism | BDS Movement
+description:   We warmly welcome the withdrawal of the many international writers and public figures from the Beyond the Lone Offender conference in...
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+We warmly welcome the withdrawal of the many international writers and public figures from the Beyond the Lone Offender conference in Hamburg – which has been almost entirely cancelled as a result of its organisers' complicity in Germany's shameful anti-Palestinian racism.The conference organisers, the Goethe Institut, had disinvited renowned Palestinian poet and journalist Mohammed El Kurd, leading to an inspiring display of solidarity from literary and public figures, including Ijeoma Oluo, Mohammed Hanif and others.The boycott of the Goethe Institut's conference is the latest in a series of victories against the German establishment's anti-democratic repression, McCarthyism, and unabashed anti-Palestinian racism and dehumanisation that remind us of Germany's dark history.Opposition to Germany's official repression against those who advocate for the rights of Palestinians has grown exponentially in recent years. The UN, countless leading artists and academics, hundreds of Jewish scholars and many others have taken stands against it.We call for isolating all German cultural institutions that are complicit in shielding apartheid Israel from criticism and accountability through such shameful, racist tactics of censorship, intimidation and political testing.We warmly welcome the withdrawal of the many international writers and public figures from the Beyond the Lone Offender conference in Hamburg -- which has been almost entirely cancelled as a result of its organisers' complicity in Germany's shameful anti-Palestinian racism. pic.twitter.com/7SaXSxapmW— PACBI (@PACBI) June 23, 2022

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+articleTitle: Don’t Pinkwash Israel’s Crimes! Palestinian Queers Call on Global Queers To Stand With Us.
+pageTitle: Don’t Pinkwash Israel’s Crimes! Palestinian Queers Call on Global Queers To Stand With Us. | BDS Movement
+description: While queer and LGBTQIA+ people around the world celebrate the International Day Against Homophabia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) and Pride Parades,...
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+While queer and LGBTQIA+ people around the world celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) and Pride Parades, Palestinian queers are living in a state of horror.Apartheid Israel’s militarized police force is attacking us with tear gas and stun grenades, chasing and arresting our activists while marching peacefully in protest. What are we protesting? Israel’s massacres in Gaza; its atrocities, dispossession and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem; Jordan Valley, Galilee, Naqab (Negev) and West Bank; and its support for far-right racist attacks against the Indigenous Palestinian communities everywhere, queer and straight alike.Testimonies of Palestinian queers living inside present-day Israel detail the brutality of the heavily militarized Israeli police forces in repressing peaceful rallies chanting in solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, where 4 families are being forcibly displaced from their homes to settle in them Jewish-Israeli settlers. This is gradual ethnic cleansing!Ghadir al Shafie, co-founder of Aswat, gave the following testimony from her son, who attended a peaceful rally at their hometown Akka:A few days ago, while I was driving home from a meeting near Yaffa, my son Jude, who is 17, called. He was shouting; I could almost hear his heart racing: “Mama, the police are chasing us with tear gas bombs and stun grenades; they’re brutal. They are closing in on us.I was in total shock, terrified for my son’s life.Other testimonies from queer activists attending peaceful marches reveal unprecedented police brutality and repression against Palestinians.We were just getting organized to begin the rally in Haifa when we heard stun grenades followed by an intense wave of tear gas bombs. I remember looking at the sky and it was all full of clouds of smoke. We started running to nearby allies only to be attacked by armed far-right Jewish-Israeli mobs chanting ‘Death to the Arabs’. It was horrifying!Sisters and brothers, today, we struggle for queer rights as part of our political, social and human rights. Our struggle for queer rights is also intersectionally connected to worldwide struggles for Indigenous rights, women’s rights, colored people’s lives, Black people’s lives, and for climate rights.We call on queer and LGBTQIA+ groups and activists to support Palestinians by, at the very least, boycotting Israel’s pinkwashing events, such as Tel Aviv Pride events, Tel Aviv Film Festival or any similar activity.As in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, we ask for your solidarity, and the most effective form of solidarity with our liberation struggle is refusing to cover up, Pinkwash or normalize our oppressors and the institutions and activities that are part and parcel of its system of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid.The courage the whole world is witnessing among Palestinians all over historic Palestine is inspiring courageous solidarity worldwide. Palestinians, including queers, need your meaningful solidarity to help us end Israel’s 73 years of brutal oppression.

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+articleTitle: Trade Unions, Water Movements Urge European Commission to Withdraw Patronage from Israeli Water Conference
+pageTitle: Trade Unions, Water Movements Urge European Commission to Withdraw Patronage from Israeli Water Conference | BDS Movement
+description: Nearly 40 European trade unions, water and human rights networks and environmental groups from a dozen countries have written a letter to the...
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+Nearly 40 European trade unions, water and human rights networks and environmental groups from a dozen countries have written a letter to the European Commission urging withdrawal of patronage from Watec, the Israeli water conference and exhibition to be held for the first time in Europe, September 21-23 in Venice, Italy. (See letter and signatories)
+Endorsers of the letter note the European Commission patronage comes “at a time when Israel is cutting off water to Palestinian communities, leaving tens of thousands without access to water during the hottest time of the year.” In addition, WATEC includes “companies involved in and facilitating violations of international law.”
+Among the signatories of the letter are the Italian Forum of Water Movements, Right2Water Ireland, Eau Secours and the Association des Consommateurs d’Eau de la ville de Sète in France, and the Association for International Water Studies in Norway; the Italian trade unions FIOM-Cgil and USB, representing 360,000 and 250,000 workers respectively, as well as the Teachers’ Union of Greater Lisbon; Italy’s one million member strong Associazione ARCI, the Belgian NGO coalition CNCD 11.11.11, Italian NGOs Cospe and Un ponte per…, and Umanotera, The Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development.
+The European Commission also granted patronage to the 2013 and 2015 editions of Watec in Tel Aviv, where the main sponsor was Mekorot, Israel’s national water company documented by organizations such as Amnesty International as appropriating Palestinian water resources and supplying water to Israeli settlements. Additional sponsors and participants include settlement based Ariel University, companies providing services to settlements such as Netafim, Tahal Group International, Hagihon, KKL/JNF as well as Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s leading producers of weapons and surveillance systems used against the Palestinian population and along Israel’s Wall.
+The signatories argue that by granting patronage to events sponsored by and involving companies and institutions operating in Israeli settlements, the European Commission “is at odds with the European Union's own official position on settlements. Even worse, it legitimates and encourages illegal activities that trample fundamental rights such as access to water, thereby reinforcing Israel’s impunity.”
+Through its patronage for Watec, the Commission is also “giving credibility to the myth of the Israeli water miracle, which was built on the appropriation of Palestinian water resources and the denial of a fundamental right,misleading participating European companies and public opinion.”
+The endorsing groups call on the European Commission to follow the lead of the growing list of “European companies that have ended ties with Israeli companies and projects violating international law, including the Dutch companies Vitens and Royal HaskoningDHV, French companies Veolia, Safege and Poma, Ireland’s CRH and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn.” They also urge “all European institutions to fulfill their legal obligation to put an end to all forms of support and assistance for Israeli violations of international law and Palestinian rights.”
+The letter comes after fourteen prominent Palestinian agricultural and environmental organizations wrote to the Italian agricultural network Coldiretti urging their Italian counterparts to withdraw sponsorship and participation from Watec, noting that “it is through the control of water resources that one of the most blatant violations of international law related to the illegal occupation of our territory manifests itself.”