Israeli farmers warn the country’s agricultural export industry is facing a looming “collapse” due to international opposition to the Gaza genocide. Recent reports show the impact of boycotting Israel, and why the Israeli ‘brand’ may never recover.
Despite repression and retaliation, the Gaza genocide has pushed an unprecedented wave of artists across the entertainment industry to back the cultural boycott of Israel.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center, founded by ex-Trump official Kenneth Marcus, is a nonprofit that seeks to suppress criticism of Israel through lawfare. It recently threatened to sue Film Workers For Palestine for boycotting Israeli film institutions.
This weekend, thousands of Communications Workers of America members will have a chance to vote on two urgent resolutions to end the union’s complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it “a turning point in the moral and theological witness of the global church.”
The Gaza genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase, and Israeli universities are providing intellectual, logistical, and technological support. The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that justice demands.
This week, House Republicans pulled an anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) bill from the Congressional calendar, and it is not the only pro-Israel bill to get postponed recently.
Early this year investment research firm Morningstar caved to a multi-year ADL pressure campaign and exempted Israel from its socially responsible investing ratings. This success in exempting Israel from investor accountability is just the beginning.
Activists are calling on the Brooklyn Academy of Music to take a clear stance in support of Palestinian human rights and cancel an upcoming performance by the Batsheva Dance Company.
“I can no longer ethically or morally consent to use my labor in any way that supports an institution that is explicitly manufacturing consent for the unrestrained, illegal, ‘apocalyptic’ ongoing series of ‘calculated’ genocides to destroy Palestine.”