29. September 2019 - BDS SOUTH AFRICA: Anglican Church in Southern Africa adopts BDS boycott of Israel
The South African human rights and Palestine solidarity NGO, BDS South Africa, welcomes the decision by the over 4.5 million strong Southern African provincial synod of the Anglican Church (ACSA) that has adopted the BDS boycott of Israel. ACSA represents Anglican Christian communities in southern African countries including South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique and Angola.
In a motion, now a binding resolution, titled "Time to act: Solidarity with Palestine" the church specifcally calls for support of the “well-directed Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) actions against the Israeli state until they end their occupation of Palestine”.
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25. Juni 2019 - Middle East Monitor:
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies endorses boycott of Israeli universities
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has endorsed the Palestinian call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, in a vote taken at its AGM in Leeds on Monday.
According to reports on social media, the resolution supporting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign was easily passed, with almost 80 percent support (final numbers to be confirmed).
The resolution highlights Israel’s obstruction of "Palestinians’ right to education by destroying Palestinian universities and schools, arresting students, raiding and forcing Palestinian universities to close, and restricting Palestinians’ movement."
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6. Juni 2019 - Ha'aretz, Gideon Levy:
Thanks McDonald’s for Reminding Israel:
There Is a Green Line, and Even a Red Line
By refusing to open branches in the settlements, McDonald’s took a step very few companies are willing to take, but that all companies should have taken long ago
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3. September 2017 - Ha'aretz:
Canada's Largest Private-sector Union, Unifor, Adopts BDS Motion
The union has over 310,000 members across Canada
According to reports from the Canadian Jewish News, Unifor, Canada's largest private-sector union, adopted a BDS motion at its convention two weeks ago.
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23. April 2017 - Ha'aretz, Barak Ravid and Yotam Berger:
Israel Accepts Chinese Demand Not to Employ Chinese Laborers in Settlements
Agreement avoids explicit Israeli consent to a settlement boycott, but annex lists where Chinese laborers will be employed: None of the locations is in the West Bank
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10.4.2017 - Europ. Coord. of Committees and Assosiations for Palestine:
The European Union’s Legal Obligation to Stop Trade with Illegal Israeli Settlements
Hits the Mainstream
Last week, one of the most prominent legal journals in the world, The European Journal of International Law, published an article on its website affirming that the European Union and its member states have a legal obligation to stop all trade with illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land. This indicates that opposition to trade with Israeli settlements is growing and becoming increasingly mainstream.
As the EJIL article explains, Israel’s ongoing construction of illegal settlements on Palestinian land violates cardinal rules of international law like prohibit seizing of territory by force, forbid apartheid and population transfer as well as the right to self-determination. Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Israeli settlement construction may amount to war crimes.
[ mehr ] [ 4.4.2017 EJIL ]
14. Februar 2017 - Ha'aretz, Uri Avnery:
The Green Line Is Not Sacred
Settlers are trying to conceal the differences between them and us Israelis to eradicate the 1967 border and have Israel annex all the occupied territories.
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29. Januar 2017 - Ha'aretz, Ilana Hammermann:
Why I, as a Proud Israeli, Want the World to Boycott Us
With much difficulty, I am asking my fellow citizens to lead the call for an international boycott, because otherwise our country will be lost forever.
"Boycotts for political reasons are a legitimate tool that falls under the protection of freedom of political expression." a Haaretz editorial declared recently ("Entry prohibited to critics," January 17). This was written following the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee’s approval for the second and third readings of a bill that would prohibit the granting of entry visas or residency permits to foreign citizens who call for a boycott of Israel or the settlements.
Therefore, I invoke the authoritative statement by Haaretz to call upon Israeli citizens who belong to the peace camp to appeal to the international community to impose a boycott on Israel.
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10.12.2016 - European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine:
European Trade Union Initiative for Justice in Palestine
Recently over 100 trade union delegates, representing twenty nine unions and three million members from all over Europe, gathered in a historic first meeting in Brussels to challenge European governments’ complicity with Israel and establish a cross European platform in solidarity with the people of Palestine.
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7. Oktober 2016 - Amsterdam:
Leonhard-Woltjer Stichting:
Israel-Palestine discussion 2016: How to (not) boycott Israel
Since the onset of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, several parties have argued about potential resolutions. Recently one of the pressing matters is the question whether a boycott could motivate Israel to respect the Palestinian civil and political rights.
A boycott of Israel can be managed in several ways. The country could be refused right to join diplomatic discussions. Companies could end their trade agreements, universities could forgo alliances with Israeli educational institutions and consumers could refrain from buying Israeli products from the supermarket.
But under which circumstances is such a boycott justified? Which strategy is efficient? And what are the moral implications of such measures? Tonight three prominent guests will discuss their view on this complicated matters, respond to each other and answer questions from the audience.
We focus on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a global campaign attempting to increase economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement: 1) the end of Israel’s occupation and colonization of Palestinian land and the Golan Heights, 2) full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and 3) respect for the right of return of Palestinian refugees. (source: WIKIPEDIA)
- Samer Abdelnour
- Farid Esack
- Norman Finkelstein
The annual Israel-Palestine discussion is organized by the Leonhard-Woltjer Foundation in collaboration with Een Ander Joods Geluid / A Different Jewish Voice and De Nieuwe Liefde.
[ Video-Aufzeichnung (2h42) ] [ bei YouTube ]
3. September 2016 - David Ranan:
On Boycott and Blackmail
A month ago Brussels Airlines announced that, further to requests by Palestinian passengers, it had stopped offering a sweet (Halva), as it was produced in the Occupied Territories.
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12. November 2015 - Politico, Omar Barghouti:
The EU helps Israel oppress Palestinians<
Why boycotts, divestment and sanctions are the just way forward.
Despite Israel’s descent into unmasked, right-wing extremism, particularly with the current escalation of its brutal occupation and repression, Europe remains largely complicit in supporting Israel’s occupation and violations of Palestinian rights, despite the empty rhetoric coming from the European Union.
All the buzz in Brussels and Tel Aviv about EU labeling of products from Israel’s settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory cannot hide the fact that Europe’s relationship with Israel conflicts with its espoused values and legal commitments.
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27. Oktober 2015 - The Guardian, Peter Walker and Ian Black:
UK academics boycott universities in Israel to fight for Palestinians' rights
British and Israeli governments condemn pledge by 343 professors and lecturers who criticise what they call ‘Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land’
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27. Oktober 2015 - Maha Abdelrahman ... Mark Zeitoun:
3. September 2017 - David Ranan:
On Boycott and Blackmail
A month ago Brussels Airlines announced that, further to requests by Palestinian passengers, it had stopped offering a sweet (Halva), as it was produced in the Occupied Territories.
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26. und 27. Oktober 2015 - CounterPunch, Omar Robert Hamilton:
26.10.2015: J. K. Rowling and the Prisoners of Israel
27.10.2015: Hamilton vs. J.K. Rowling, Round Two
26. Oktober 2015 - Ha'aretz:
Hundreds of British Academics Sign Letter Vowing to Boycott Israel
In a full-page ad due to be published in the Guardian newspaper on Tuesday, the academics accuse Israel of illegal occupation, human rights violations and resisting a settlement.
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27. September 2015 - Ha'aretz:
Israel Will Never Hand Over Parts of the West Bank, Says Deputy FM Hotovely
Deputy foreign minister also says EU labeling of produce from the West Bank would be tantamount to a boycott of Israel.
[ vollständiger Bericht ]
30. Juni 2015 - The New York Times, Rick Gladstone und Isabel Kerschner:
United Church of Christ Approves Divestment
to Aid Palestinians
The United Church of Christ, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States, overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday calling for divestment from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation or control of Palestinian territories, and a boycott of products from Israeli settlements.
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15. Juni 2015 - Alternative Information Center:
Israel govt. report: BDS can devastate economy
An Israeli government report about the possible effects of BDS on the economy outlines devastating harm. No wonder Israel attempted to hide the report.
14. Juni 2015 - James North:
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Could Cost Israel $4.7 Billion a Year
Do you wonder why Benjamin Netanyahu is declaring war on BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), and Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban are holding a secret Las Vegas conference to fight it, and Yair Lapid is saying that the people behind BDS plotted 9/11, and Ari Shavit is calling the movement “evil and sophisticated”?
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10. Juni 2015 - Article 1 Collective:
Norway’s largest pension fund divests
from HeidelbergCement and Cemex
KLP and the KLP Funds have decided to exclude the companies HeidelbergCement AG and Cemex SAB de SV from their investment portfolios with effect from 1 June 2015. KLP excludes future investments in both companies because of their exploitation of natural resources in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
[ mehr ] [ Erklärung von KLP ]
29. Mai 2015 - Article 1 Collective, Mieke Zagt:
10 Years of BDS
July 9th, 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the call by Palestinian civil society for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, until it complies with international law and human rights. A truly global movement has emerged in response to this call. Anticipating this 10th anniversary, Article 1 Collective’s Mieke Zagt interviews Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the BDS movement.
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13. Februar 2015 - The Guardian, Khalid Abdalla ... Andrea Luka Zimmerman:
Over 100 artists announce a cultural boycott of Israel
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15. Dezember 2014 - Ha'aretz, Amira Hass:
Israeli soldiers are licensed thugs
applying state violence in the West Bank
Even without tear gas grenades and grabbing Ziad Abu Ein by the throat, the presence of IDF troops in Turmus Aya was an act of violence in itself.
5. September 2015 - Miko Peled:
My Comments on BDS,
at the AMP Conference, November, 2014 in Chicago
The reason that BDS and other forms of resistance exist is because Palestine is not free, it is occupied, its people endure the hardships of an oppressive occupation regime, known as Zionism. Palestinians are subjected to the inevitable brutality that comes with occupation and they are subject to racist laws that are designed to discriminate against them, to disenfranchise them to take away their land and eventually get them to either surrender completely, leave or die.
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17. November 2014 - Russia Today:
EU denies reports it plans to sanction Israel
An internal European Union document which proposes sanctions against Israel due to its opposition to a two-state solution with the Palestinians has been leaked to Israeli media – but the EU's foreign policy chief denies such plans.
Work on the document began on September 11, according to high-ranking European diplomats who were in touch with Haaretz. The EU’s Political and Security Committee in Brussels, which includes the ambassadors of all 28 member states, demanded the EU come up with a response to the actions of the Israeli government, which is making a two-state solution less and less likely.
22. Juli 2014 Nobelpreisträger_innen u.v.a.m.:
Aufruf von Nobelpreisträger_innen,
ein Militärembargo über Israel zu verhängen
Wir fordern die UNO und Regierungen in aller Welt auf, sofort Schritte zu ergreifen, um ein umfassendes und rechtlich bindendes Militärembargo über Israel zu verhängen – ähnlich dem über Südafrika während der Apartheid verhängten.
Die israelische Regierung hat abermals die ganze Wucht ihres Militärs in einem inhumanen und illegalen Akt militärischer Aggression gegen die in Geiselhaft genommene palästinensische Bevölkerung, speziell im besetzten Gazastreifen freigesetzt.
Die Fähigkeit der israelischen Regierung, derartige verheerende Angriffe zu unternehmen, ohne belangt zu werden, rührt von der umfassenden internationalen militärischen Zusammenarbeit und dem Waffenhandel her, die sie mit Regierungen in aller Welt, die mitverantwortlich sind, aufrecht erhält.
Die Nobelpreisträger_innen Erzbischof Desmond Tutu, Adolfo Peres Esquivel, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchú und Betty Williams haben einen offenen Brief an die UNO und an Regierungen in aller Welt verfasst, um ein Militärembargo über Israel zu verhängen. Andere Unterzeichner_innen sind Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters von Pink Floyd, die Dramatikerin Caryl Churchill, der US-Rapper Boots Riley, João Antonio Felicio, der Präsident der Internationalen Gewerkschaftsföderation und Zwelinzima Vavi, der Generalsekretär der Konföderation der Südafrikanischen Gewerkschaften (COSATU).
Indem sie Waffen aus Israel importieren, dorthin exportieren und die Entwicklung israelischer Militärtechnologie erleichtern, senden die betreffenden Regierungen eine klare Botschaft der Unterstützung der israelischen Militäraggression, unter Einschluss der damit verbundenen Kriegsverbrechen und möglicherweise damit auch verbundenen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit.
Werdet jetzt aktiv – unterschreibt den Aufruf für ein Militärembargo!
Der Aufruf wird dem neuen UN-Hochkommissar für Menschenrechte überreicht werden, wenn er/sie ihren neuen Posten im September 2014 aufnehmen wird.
Fact Sheet:
www.bdsmovement.net/2014/military-embargo-fact-sheet-12345
Der Aufruf kann unterzeichnet werden unter:
http://www.bdsmovement.net/stoparmingisrael
www.bdsmovement.net/2014/nobel-celebrities-call-for-military-embargo-12316
18. Juli 2014 - The Guardian:
The arms trade and Israel's attack on Gaza
Israel has once again unleashed the full force of its military against the captive Palestinian population, particularly in the besieged Gaza Strip, in an inhumane and illegal act of military aggression. Israel's ability to launch such devastating attacks with impunity largely stems from the vast international military cooperation and trade that it maintains with complicit governments across the world. Over the period 2008-19, the US is set to provide military aid to Israel worth $30bn, while Israeli annual military exports to the world have reached billions of dollars.
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4. Juli 2014 - Russia Today:
Israel’s SodaStream closes main UK store after 2-year boycott campaign
SodaStream, which has its main factory in the West Bank and makes home carbonation products, has closed its EcoStream shop in Brighton and one of Britain’s biggest retailers John Lewis will no longer stock its products after two years of protests.
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26. Juni 2014 - Russia Today:
France advises its citizens against doing business
in illegal Israeli settlements
France has warned its citizens against taking part in any economic activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying this may entail legal risks because the Jewish settlements are illegal under international law.
The warning is part of a joint act drafted by the five largest EU countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain, Haaretz cited a French diplomat as saying.
Italy and Spain are expected to issue similar warnings over the next few days, while the UK and Germany did so a few months ago.
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2014 - Katie Miranda:
29. April 2012 - The Guardian, Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post:
Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements
UK's largest mutual takes lead among European supermarkets
[ The Guardian ] [ Ha'aretz ] [ Jerusalem Post ]
10. April 2014 - Jewish Voice for Peace:
Rabbis: A Passover message to our Presbyterian friends
A Passover message from members of the JVP Rabbinical Council about realities for Jerusalemites, and HP's role in limiting freedom of movement for Palestinians.
[ Video-Aufruf ]
8 Mai 2013 - The Guardian, Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman:
Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians
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6. April 2012 - Ha'aretz, Don Futterman:
The important message of Peter Beinart
The Zionist boycott is a proposed wake-up call designed to counter the subliminal campaign to erase the term ‘occupied territories’ from our lexicon.
28. März 2012 - Jewish Voice for Peace:
Students to TIAA-CREF:
Divest from the Israeli Occupation!
A video of US and Palestinian youth urging the retirement fund giant TIAA-CREF to divest from the Israeli Occupation!
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18. März 2012 - New York Times, Peter Beinart:
To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements
To believe in a democratic Jewish state today is to be caught between the jaws of a pincer.
On the one hand, the Israeli government is erasing the “green line” that separates Israel proper from the West Bank. In 1980, roughly 12,000 Jews lived in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem). Today, government subsidies have helped swell that number to more than 300,000. Indeed, many Israeli maps and textbooks no longer show the green line at all.
[ vollständiger Artikel ] [ International Herald Tribune ] [ Crisis of Zionism ]
10. Dezember 2010 - Ha'aretz:
Former European leaders:
Sanction Israel over settlement building
26 former top EU officials, including ex EU chief Solana and former German President Richard von Weizsacker, urge world
powers to confront Jerusalem over its refusal to obey international law.
[ vollständiger Artikel ] [ in Deutsch ]
8. Januar 2009 - Naomi Klein:
Boycott, Divest, Sanction
It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
[ vollständiger Artikel bei The Nation ] [ bei Naomi Klein ]
In its 1948 declaration of independence, Israel committed to "ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex." Today, those fundamental democratic ideals are at stake. In Israel, the continued occupation of the West Bank and an emboldened conservative government are putting Israeli democracy at risk. While in the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy and speak out for human rights in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American Jewish establishment's refusal to confront it.
[ 26.03.2012: Gespräch mit Peter Beinart ]
[ 26.03.2012: Interview bei Shalom.tv ]