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Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Joined June 2009
The Nakba isn’t history. It’s now. Today, Palestinians are facing what Israeli leaders openly call the “Gaza Nakba” — an unprecedented genocide of extermination and forced displacement against 2.3 million Palestinians. Watch our video and share 7 urgent demands from
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Boycott Snow White.
Boycott Disney’s Snow White movie!. Disney’s 2025 film Snow White stars Gal Gadot, who has organized screenings of an Israeli military propaganda movie that attempts to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s ongoing, livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. 🧵
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Many companies are complicit in Israel’s genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. All peaceful popular efforts, including boycott and divestment, to hold these entities accountable for their support of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians are justified. #BDS
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Boycott Eurovision.
.@gretathunberg joined tens of thousands of people protesting @Eurovision's inclusion of genocidal Israel in the contest, which takes place on Saturday. #BoycottEurovision2024 #UnitedByGenocide.#Eurovision #ESC #ESC2024
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The BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
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BREAKING: With an overwhelming majority, and for the first time in 42 years, the UNGA today voted for imposing sanctions on Israel!. The world’s global majority affirmed that the historic ruling by the ICJ triggers the legal obligation of all states to end complicity in Israel’s
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Boycott Scream 7.
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The BDS movement condemns far-right “activists” exploiting the genocide of our people as a means to dramatically increase followers and paid subscriptions on social media platforms.
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McDonald's Israel supports Israeli army with free meals during the ongoing #GazaGenocide, while McDonald's Malaysia bullies Palestine solidarity activists with a SLAPP lawsuit. Escalate the @McDonalds boycott now!.#BoycottMcDonalds.
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The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, endorses the organic boycott campaigns against @CocaCola to pressure the company to end its complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide. #BoycottCoke
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Samsung Next, the innovation arm of the Korean technology giant, Samsung, is shutting down its Tel Aviv operations, yet another strong indicator of the dramatically declining confidence in the Israeli economy.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨. The Mayor of Barcelona has suspended all institutional ties with Israel, including its twinning agreement with Tel Aviv, until Palestinian human rights are respected. We call on institutions worldwide to follow suit and end ties with apartheid Israel!
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.@McDonalds is bowing to BDS pressure by getting rid of its genocide-feeding Israeli franchisee. But this won’t stop the boycott because it’s doing it exactly the wrong way.
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Many of you have written to ask us about the accuracy of lists of companies being spread on social media. We have put together this definitive explainer to help focus our collective efforts on ending complicity with Israel's apartheid regime. #BDS.
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URGENT: Israel has now announced the imminent use of “extreme force” against Palestinians in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. Palestinians urge mobilizations worldwide to stop the ethnic cleansing plan and the ongoing US-Israeli genocide! #CeasefireNow!
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BREAKING: Reigning Eurovision champion Nemo calls for genocidal Israel to be excluded. “Israel’s actions are fundamentally at odds with the values that Eurovision claims to uphold — peace, unity, and respect for human rights.”. (Via Huffington Post)
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Our work is not done!. A ceasefire is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Without massive pressure, it may constitute a continuation of a less visible form of genocide that Israel and the US hope will provoke less
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BREAKING: McDonald's has lost over $7 billion in revenue due to global boycotts, according to Israeli financial media. The BDS movement has targeted McDonald's due to its support for Israel's genocide against 2.3M Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. #BDSworks.
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We welcome all boycotts of companies complicit in Israeli apartheid & in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. However, we specifically ask you to follow & amplify the call to boycott @PUMA, @AXA, @HP, @Siemens, @CarrefourGroup, #Sodastream, #Ahava & Israeli produce.
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London's biggest @Eurovision screening party has cancelled its 2024 edition over the participation of genocidal Israel. We salute the Rio for courageously standing on the right side of history. We urge all #Eurovision2024 party venues to cancel!. #BoycottEurovision2024.
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BREAKING: MAJOR BDS VICTORY! . McDonald’s Malaysia drops $1M lawsuit against #BDS Malaysia after baseless claims!. The BDS movement calls for an escalation of the boycott of McDonald’s everywhere until its parent company ends its ties with McDonald’s Israel. #BoycottMcDonalds
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Week 299. Malmö says NO to genocide! People from all over Sweden are gathering in Malmö this week, where Eurovision is taking place, to protest against Israel’s participation in the competition and to demand a #FreePalestine and #CeasefireNow ! Yesterday we were tens of thousands
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#BDS pressure works! Tech giant @Intel has halted construction of a new $25 billion factory in Israel, according to Israeli financial media sources. Intel still remains deeply complicit in feeding Israel’s genocidal war chest, so let’s escalate our #BoycottIntel campaign!
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.@GretaThunberg joins the Palestinian call to Boycott Chevron: Chevron is fueling Israeli genocide and apartheid, as well as environmental devastation. As Israel bombs hospitals, homes, and schools, Chevron is supplying it with energy and funding its genocidal war chest. Join
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BREAKING Plaid Cymru, the Party of Wales, endorses BDS and calls for a military embargo on Israel.
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You can't stand with Palestinians and refuse to listen to them. That's not how it works, Bambie Thug. The call for solidarity is to #BoycottEurovision2024 nothing else will do.
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11,000+ have signed our petition asking @alexander_olly to heed the call from Palestinians to withdraw from Eurovision because of the refusal of its organisers to remove genocidal Israel from the competition. Add your name here: #BoycottEurovision2024
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Boycott @Eurovision.
.@Eurovision news platform ESC Discord will not cover apartheid Israel's participation. It calls on organisers @EBU_HQ to ban genocide-enabing Israeli broadcaster KAN. #BoycottEurovision2024 #BanIsraelFromEurovision #Eurovision #Eurovision2024.
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"It is not a war, it is a genocide.". Brazilian President @LulaOficial denounces Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. Enough is enough. Governments must demand a ceasefire now to stop the killings and impose a military embargo on Israel.
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McDonald's CEO admits #BoycottMcDonalds is working, as several markets are experiencing a "meaningful business impact.". McDonald’s Israel has provided free meals to soldiers carrying out #GazaGenocide. Let’s show @McDonalds what boycotts can do!.
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@AOC We, Palestinians, have called for international solidarity through Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), inspired by the movement that helped end apartheid in South Africa. We would love to see you joining our call to hold Israel accountable and achieve justice.
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The #BDS movement just updated the list of boycott, pressure, divestment and exclusion campaigns!. Ending all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel is more urgent than ever. Act now! Escalate all #BDS campaigns to end #GazaGenocide!.
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On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, @wizardbisan says: suspend Israel from the UN.
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The BDS movement has officially partnered with @boycatapp, an innovative ethical shopping platform and application, in order to allow you to join consumer-focused BDS campaigns more effectively. Get the app ➡️ Read more ➡️
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Many of you have written to ask us about the accuracy of lists of companies being spread on social media. We have put together this definitive explainer to help focus our collective efforts on ending complicity with Israel's apartheid regime. #BDS.
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Boycott @DisneyPlus.
Palestinians call for intensifying pressure on @Disney and @MarvelStudios until they entirely and permanently drop the racist anti-Palestinian character of Ruth Bat-Seraph (aka Sabra). Boycott @DisneyPlus, @Marvel merchandise and all screenings of @CaptainAmerica.
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BDS works.
BDS victory! . After at least 163 artists and venues boycotted The Great Escape, the UK music festival has ended its partnership with Barclays Bank, which funds companies arming Israel's genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
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Targeting complicit companies can help stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide. #BDS calls for a boycott of Israeli and international companies that are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza, apartheid and other violations of Palestinian human rights. #BoycottIsraeliApartheid
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BREAKING: 14 tons of military supplies to Israel are blocked after designating them as part of a just-exposed illegal arms trafficking scheme through Italy’s port of Ravenna, Italy!. Stop the illegal military transfers that fuel Israel’s genocide, apartheid and illegal military
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McDonald's Israel supports Israeli army with free meals during the ongoing #GazaGenocide, while McDonald's Malaysia bullies Palestine solidarity activists with a SLAPP lawsuit. Escalate the @McDonalds boycott now!
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The BDS movement supports organic efforts to #BoycottAdidas for the company’s racist, anti-Palestinian decision to drop Bella Hadid.
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The #BDS movement recently updated the list of boycott, pressure, divestment & exclusion campaigns!. Ending all state, corporate & institutional complicity with Israel is more urgent than ever. Act now! Escalate all #BDS campaigns to end #GazaGenocide!.
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Approx 1.4 million Palestinians are currently sheltering in Rafah, 600,000 of them are children. According to UNICEF nearly all of them are either "injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized, or living with disabilities." As genocidal Israel threatens "extreme force" the world
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We call on supporters to launch creative, strategic initiatives to appeal to all @Eurovision participants to refuse to be complicit in the @EBU_HQ's whitewash of apartheid Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. #BoycottEurovision2024.
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URGENT: We call for pressure on Portuguese authorities to arrest and prosecute Israeli war criminal Tzipi Livni, who is scheduled to address a UN conference in Portugal on Tuesday 26 November.
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Lawyers in Ireland have given the Irish gov 14 days notice of their intention to take legal action if Ireland does not "immediately suspend all military and dual-use trade with Israel along with the use of Irish airspace for the transport of weapons to the IDF”. #SanctionIsrael
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The United Church of Canada, the second largest Christian denomination across Canada, has recommended that its national office and local congregations adopt BDS strategies and “join in the consensus of the international human rights communities in recognizing and rejecting
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BREAKING: Following the refusal of dock workers in Barcelona to load weapons destined for Israel ALL workers at the port are now refusing to send arms to Israel. #CeasefireNOW .#GazaGenocide.
El sindicat que aglutina a totes les treballadores del port de Barcelona es suma a la crida de @WorkersinPales1 i a @CoordinadoraBCN dient que no enviaran armament a Israel. #EmbargoMilitarAIsrael.#StopArmingIsrael.
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WE DIDI IT! . In a major BDS win for human rights activists against financial institutions complicit in Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler colonialism, apartheid and now genocide, French multinational insurer @AXA was forced to sell its investments in all major Israeli banks.
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BREAKING: Norway’s second largest asset manager, Storebrand, divested holdings in @IBM_Corporation worth $141 million due to their supply of a biometric database to Israel "used to implement apartheid" and "discrimination and segregation of Palestinians".
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#BDS focuses on a specific number of the most complicit targets in order to maximize our impact. We call for boycotts & divestment against @CarrefourGroup, @Siemens, @PUMA & others, due to their proven complicity in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.
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McDonald's CEO admitted #BoycottMcDonalds is working, as several markets are experiencing a "meaningful business impact.". McDonald’s Israel has provided free meals to soldiers carrying out #GazaGenocide. Let’s show @McDonalds what boycotts can do!
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Wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu intends to travel to Hungary on 2 April. He must be stopped and arrested.
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.@Microsoft is a new BDS priority target. Here's why you should boycott @Xbox and pressure your institutions to exclude Microsoft from its contracts. #BoycottXbox
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A ceasefire in Gaza is only a first step: now is our moment to escalate BDS pressure to make occupation, apartheid and genocide history, says BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti.
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Other companies, including @McDonalds, @Dominos, @PizzaHut, and @PapaJohns, have also made generous donations to Israel’s genocidal military. #GazaGenocide
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BREAKING: After Carrefour’s closure in Jordan due to sustained BDS pressure, Majid Al Futtaim Group, the partner of the French Group Carrefour in most of the Arab region, announces “Carrefour will cease operations in Oman” as of January 7, 2025.
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The BDS movement, welcomes the news of a ceasefire agreement with immense relief. A ceasefire, however, is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied and besieged Gaza Strip.
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DIVESTMENT NEWS: Hayward, California votes to remove Intel, Hyundai, Caterpillar, and Chevron from its investment portfolio. All four companies are complicit in Israel's human rights violations. It's time for other US cities and institutions to divest from genocide and apartheid!.
The Hayward City Council voted to divest the city’s stock ownership stakes in four companies that have ties with Israel — apparently the first city in the Bay Area to take such a measure.
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The #BDS movement reiterates the call for immediate sanctions Israel including a comprehensive #MilitaryEmbargo. This isn’t a choice but a duty: Sanctions on Israel were voted for by a global majority of 124 states on 18 September at the UN General Assembly. #SanctionIsrael.
For each Palestinian life that should and could have been saved in Gaza, we have been put to the test. And we have failed, over and over. We must not fail again. All of us must do all we can to save Dr Abu Safiya. #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
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Targeting complicit companies can help stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide. #BDS calls for a boycott of Israeli and international companies that are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza, apartheid and other violations of Palestinian human rights. #BoycottIsraeliApartheid
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What Save the Children means to say but is too terrified to is: . Due to ISRAEL's genocidal bombing, more than 10 PALESTINIAN children per day, on average, have lost one or both legs in Gaza. Name the crime. Shame the perpetrator.
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - @Save_GlobalNews . Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed .
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URGENT: Israel is brutally & indiscriminately bombing Palestinians in Gaza & have cut all communication. We call on global leaders to call for an immediate #CeasefireNOW in order to stop #GazaGenocide. We call on supporters to mobilize! If not now, when?.
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The #BDS movement recently updated the list of boycott, pressure, divestment & exclusion campaigns!. Ending all state, corporate & institutional complicity with Israel is more urgent than ever. Act now! Escalate all #BDS campaigns to end #GazaGenocide!.
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Boycott Eurovision.
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BREAKING: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, with assets valued at $1.3 trillion, will reportedly end investments in firms tied to apartheid Israel's illegal settlement enterprise in the OPT. The decision is influenced by the @UN list of 112 companies tied to settlements.
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Direct your eyes at Rafah, but don’t stop there. Learn what you can do to help stop Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. #AllEyesOnRafah
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While Israel continues its genocidal aggression against Palestinians in occupied and besieged Gaza and uses starvation as a weapon of war, Carrefour-Israel provided thousands of packages to Israeli soldiers while they participated in the #GazaGenocide. #BoycottCarrefour
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BREAKING: The City of Sydney Council (Australia) has become the first New South Wales Council to adopt a BDS motion. The council confirms it has no business with companies complicit in Israeli settlements.
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We’re not falling for it. By directly acquiring the 200+ Israeli branches, McDonald’s has become more, not less, complicit in Israel’s genocide and underlying system of apartheid. McDonald’s’ move to gain more “control over its brand” won’t cut it.
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Anyone profiting from Israel’s genocide against 2.3M Palestinians in the besieged & occupied Gaza Strip is a genocide enabler. "They are not allies. Racism of all kinds has no place in our struggle for liberation." - Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the #BDS movement.
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After 5.5 months of Israel's #GazaGenocide against Palestinians, UNSC finally demands immediate #CeasefireNow, promising to end Israel's use of starvation as a weapon. Let’s escalate all #BDS campaigns to compel Israel to stop the genocide and to #DismantleApartheid.
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URGENT ACTION ALERT: STOP ISRAEL’S CARNAGE IN RAFAH NOW! . End #GazaGenocide.#CeasefireNOW.#MilitaryEmbargo
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The Belgian city of Ghent announced that it will not purchase from companies that profit from Israel's system of occupation and oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territory.
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Canada joins the list of countries that will cease arms exports to Israel. We must stop Israel's #GazaGenocide! Perpetrators of genocide must be held accountable and the Canadian government should issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders inciting genocide!.
By 204-117, Canada’s Parliament just voted for an end to military exports to Israel. Other key demands, including recognition of the State of Palestine, were dropped from the final watered-down motion. See CJPME’s full statement:
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BDS is “an indispensable part of the struggle for justice,” says UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese as she thanks BDS activists around the world and reminds them that they “continue to bring the word of (international) law into action.”. Support the #BDS movement and join
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#BDS welcomes a lawsuit at the @IntlCrimCourt (ICC) seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, for war crimes & the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. We call for maximizing int'l pressure on the ICC to fulfill its duty to urgently stop #GazaGenocide. #ICComplicity.#ICC4Israel
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REMINDER: Israel’s murder of 1,661 Palestinian children in Gaza and its massacre of civilians have been enabled by Western leaders. #GazaGenocide is being carried out with US and European arms, financing and political support for Israel’s colonial and apartheid regime.
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BDS works! USS, the UK’s biggest private pension fund, has divested over $100M of Israeli assets, including Israel Bonds, following sustained pressure from its members. This marks yet another instance in recent months of institutions divesting from Israel’s genocidal regime and
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Support Korean civil society in calling on their government to end military ties with Israel that enable #GazaGenocide!. Sign this petition before 18.01: #EndIsraeliGenocide.#MilitaryEmbargo.
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Answering some of the most frequently asked questions about the #BDS movement’s boycott targets.
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Thank you @lorde 4 respecting the Palestinian picket line, cancelling your concert in Israel & standing up 4 human rights. As was the case w/ artists who respected the S. African call 2 boycott apartheid, your decision puts you on the right side of history
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We strongly condemn the hypocrisy and complicity of the colonial West for, once again, ignoring Israel's decades-long oppression against Palestinians and attacking Palestinian armed resistance as if "violence" just began this morning. #ColonialHypocrisy.
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Even CNN cannot completely hide the truth (sometimes).
“Now we’re supposed to be in the safe area, but you can hear the bombs behind us. All of our houses are bombed. Nothing is left.” Hear these desperate voices from Gaza, as @SalmaCNN reports.
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BREAKING: Brussels-Capital Region Parliament becomes the first parliament in Belgium and in Europe to pass a resolution calling for sanctions on Israel!
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🛑 Belgium becomes the first European country to call for "an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid" to Gaza. All states should call for an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian aid, & @UN protection for Palestinians in Gaza now!. Stop #GazaGenocide.
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Historic ruling: ICJ finds Israel guilty of apartheid against Palestinians & its military occupation & annexation of Palestinian Territory as illegal. We for maximizing pressure on all states to impose immediate targeted sanctions on Israel inc a comprehensive #MilitaryEmbargo.
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While we face a US-Israeli unfolding genocide, nothing gives Palestinians as much hope as the overwhelming solidarity mobilizations worldwide and the meaningful pressure to end complicity with apartheid Israel to stop the #GazaGenocide.
Thank you London! Half a million people on the streets today for Palestine demanding a #CeaseFireNOW 🇵🇸
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The BDS movement calls for immediate pressure on all States to support the updated resolution tabled at the UN General Assembly calling for #SanctionIsrael. A vote is expected in a few days.
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