The BDS movement calls on Palestine solidarity activists in the US and elsewhere to stand with the Movement for Black Lives and other Black-led organizations in their righteous struggle for justice.
Palestinian rights organizations, filmmakers, other artists and cultural organizations call on Tribeca Enterprises to exclude the Jerusalem Film Festival from the We Are One film festival, and we urge conscientious filmmakers to withdraw if it does not, due to the the festival’s blatant complicity in lsrael’s human rights violations.
Those protesting China crackdown on Hong Kong and Minneapolis police over killing seek sanctions and boycott and opposition to normalization– and National Public Radio gives a seal of approval — but such measures are off limits for Israel.
In a statement launched today, tens of Palestinian civil society organizations, professional associations, unions, human rights and advocacy groups, and networks, representing an overwhelming majority of Palestinian civil society, called on governments to adopt “effective countermeasures, including sanctions” to “stop Israel’s illegal annexation of the Occupied West Bank and grave violations of human rights.”
Last week, both Missouri and Oklahoma’s state legislatures passed bills prohibiting the state from entering into contracts with businesses that boycott Israel. “Year after year, activists in these states successfully fought back against anti-boycott bills. This year, while legislative sessions were truncated due to COVID-19, and people sheltering in place were unable to fight back, lawmakers made the time to pass bills aiming to silence constitutionally protected speech in support of Palestinian rights,” Palestine Legal’s Meera Shah tells Mondoweiss.
Gilad Erdan has made a career of suppressing dissent and freedom of speech in Israel. Now that he is set to become the next ambassador to both the United States and United Nations Ariel Gold reviews his history and what is on his agenda
Israel’s new US ambassador helped lead the Netanyahu government’s war on the BDS movement.
The UK Supreme Court delivered the Palestine Solidarity Campaign a major victory last month, after it reversed a ban that prohibited local governments from supporting the BDS movement.
Jewish scholars defend Achille Mbembe, one of the most important intellectuals in Africa, from attack by Germany’s antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein. Klein, they say, is seeking to curb free speech about Israel and “is clearly obsessed by the
BDS campaign.”
Activists are protesting a recent Op-Ed by Point Park University President Paul Hennigan titled, “Anti-Semitism in all forms, including BDS, has no place at Point Park”.