21 October 2011 | Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, Gaza
We Palestinian students of the Gaza Strip wish to send a message to all European student groups in solidarity with the Palestinians to do all they can to increase Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel this academic year.
We also reiterate our support for the recent call by Palestinian Civil Society, of which we are a signatory, to end all collaborative research between European Universities and Israeli universities. Research centers in Israeli academic institutions are actively involved in fuelling Israel’s huge weapons industry and tools of … Continue reading
An open letter from Palestinian students to their peers in Europe
Occupy Wall Street not Palestine!
13 October 2011 | Palestinian BDS National Committee
Occupy Wall Street not Palestine! We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights!
If a people one day wills to live
fate must answer its call
And the night must fade
and the chain must break
– Abou-Al-kacem El-Chebbi (Tunisia)
Occupied Palestine, October 13 -The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), … Continue reading
National Building Museum cancels Caterpillar Inc. award ceremony!
7 September 2011 | Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
ACT NOW: Stop Rewarding Complicity in Human Rights Abuses Altogether!
Due to help and pressure from individuals and social justice groups across the country, the National Building Museum has informed us that it has canceled the public award ceremony to present Caterpillar Inc. with the 2011 Henry C. Turner Prize!
Thank you to all of you who contributed to this victory! We are not stopping here! We will continue this campaign to tell the museum to rescind the award. Next week Craig and Cindy Corrie will hand deliver our petition … Continue reading
Why boycott Israel?
13 August 2011 | Al Jazeera English, Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine
A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement.
Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
Mark LeVine: What is the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement and how is it related to the academic and cultural boycott movement? How have both evolved in the past few years in terms of their goals and methods?
Lisa Taraki: The BDS movement can be summed up as the struggle against … Continue reading
Palestinians prepare for massive uprising
29 July 2011 | Inter Press Service, Mel Frykberg
BEIT UMMAR, Occupied West Bank - Leading members of the Palestinian Popular Committees in the West Bank plan massive civil unrest and disobedience against the Israeli occupation authorities come September when the Palestinians take their case for statehood to the UN.
“We plan to take to the streets en masse,” Musa Abu Maria, a leading member of the Popular Committee in Beit Ummar, a town 11 km north of Hebron in the southern West Bank told IPS. “We will block entire highways leading to and from Israel’s illegal settlements. We will march on settlements. … Continue reading
For human rights advocates, boycotting Israel is a no-brainer
29 July 2011 | The Daily Star, Nadia Hijab
Making the Palestinian case has never been a problem. It is a powerful story grounded in universal principles of human rights and in international law. The question has always been how to shift the balance between one of the strongest military powers in the world and a people struggling with occupation, inequality and exile.
That question began to be answered not long ago. The International Court of Justice issued its advisory opinion in 2004, affirming the illegality of Israel’s separation wall and settlements, the Palestinian right to self-determination, and the applicability of … Continue reading
USACBI: US groups condemn anti-boycott law and reiterate support for BDS
12 July 2011 | US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Read the Palestinian Boycott National Committees statement on the anti-boycott bill
Read the Boycott From Within statement on the anti-boycott bill
On Monday, 11 July 2011, the Israeli Knesset passed new legislation outlawing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; a non-partisan grassroots initiative that seeks to pressure Israel to comply with international law and recognize fundamental Palestinian rights.
The bill bans all advocacy and action to boycott any Israeli companies, within Israel and the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. Furthermore, any company can be awarded … Continue reading
Haaretz: Israel passes law banning calls for boycott
11 July 2011 | Ha’aretz
The Knesset passed Monday a law penalizing persons or organizations that boycott Israel or the settlements, by a vote of 47 to 38.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present during the vote. MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who proposed the law, said the law is not meant to silence people, but “to protect the citizens of Israel.”
According to the law, a person or an organization calling for the boycott of Israel, including the settlements, can be sued by the boycott’s targets without having to prove that they sustained damage. The court will then decide how much … Continue reading
Gaza: young Palestinians lead a global movement
14 June 2011 | Palestine Chronicle, Joe Catron
On a warm, sunny afternoon, I met Eman Sourani and Rana Baker in an airy outdoor café several blocks from the port of Gaza. Both are members of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI). Sourani, a 22-year-old English literature student at Al-Aqsa University, cofounded the group after Operation Cast Lead in January 2009, while Baker, a 19-year-old blogger and a business administration student at the Islamic University of Gaza, joined it during Israeli Apartheid Week, … Continue reading
Activists from across Europe gather to build the campaign against Agrexco
9 June 2011 | Stephanie Westbrook
This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
Agrexco is Israel’s largest fresh produce exporter and European markets account for the vast majority of their sales under the brand Carmel. The Israeli government’s 50% stake in the … Continue reading
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