Tag: BDS

  • Before and after September: The struggle for Palestinian rights must intensify

    1 June 2011 | Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2011 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) warmly salutes the Nakba commemoration mass Palestinian marches on 15 May which rekindled a unique spirit of resistance, real hope and heroic initiative in the struggle for the…

  • Ahava’s theft of occupied natural resources finally exposed

    21 May 2011 | Jordan Valley Solidarity After years of strenuous denial, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics firm with its main manufacturing plant in an illegal West Bank settlement, is proven by documentary evidence to be in violation of international law through its theft of Palestinian resources. This evidence was recently discovered by…

  • BDS victory: German company pulls out of illegal Israeli railway project

    10 May 2011 | Electronic Intifada In a substantial victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, a major German rail transportation company — Deutsche Bahn, or DB — has pulled out of the $550 million illegal A1 train project, which is designed to connect Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The projected route of the…

  • A new Israeli massacre in Gaza

    09 April 2011 | One Democratic State Group, Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, Association of Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine. The latest round of Israeli massacres committed against the people of Gaza has resulted in the brutal killings since Thursday afternoon…

  • BDS victory against Ahava in UK

    31 March 2011 | Anna Stevens In a victory for the BDS movement, the UK flagship store of Ahava has been forced to relocate after years of protests and direct action. Ahava, an Israeli company which sells cosmetic products produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem has been a target for protesters in the…