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A poster being used to promote 2022 Israel Apartheid Week in Gaza.

Activists in Gaza rework a classic Palestinian resistance song from the first intifada to fit the BDS movement today.

PSC's Apartheid Wall art installation featured in Harvard Yard during IAW 2022

The Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee has campaigned for decades to bring conversations about justice in Palestine onto Harvard’s campus. The Harvard Crimson’s editorial endorsing BDS was a watershed moment that showed that our approach is working. The recent backlash against The Crimson and PSC has been immense, but it all speaks to the impact of our work.

Even as Australia elected a Labor Prime Minister who opposes BDS and rejects the apartheid label for Israel, the country’s Israel lobby is moving further to the right, agitating against PM Anthony Albanese and backing the conservative coalition in politics. No matter what concessions Labor gives the lobby it will always oppose it. This is because the lobby is accommodating new right-wing voices in Australia and ultra-nationalists in Israel.

The Pillsbury Doughboy

On May 31 General Mills announced that it divested its stake in its Israeli subsidiary. For the last two years the company has been targeted by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) over the fact that some of its Pillsbury products are manufactured in an illegal Israeli settlement.

Palestinian journalists hold posters during a protest against the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was, shot dead by Israeli troops as she covered a raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp, in Gaza City on May 11, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

A coalition called “No Rugers to Israel” can document over 200 Palestinians killed or injured by Rugers — now including Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh — though it believes the true number to be far higher. “For years we’ve been calling attention to sales of Ruger guns and ammunition to the Israeli military which is a serial human rights violator,” says Stanley Heller.