Boycott Divestment & Sanctions

Hillary Clinton at an opulent dinner with Israeli billionaire Haim Saban (center) and Israeli politician Tzipi Livni (left) CREDIT: Reuters
 

by PARUL VERMA  
“Let it be clear to any company or organization that’s considering boycotting us: We will hit back. We will attack our attackers. We will boycott our boycotters.”  Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the leader of her Jewish Home party
 “De-legitimization of Israel must be fought, and you are on the front lines. It’s not about this or that Israeli policy. It’s about our right to exist here as a free people.”  Netanyahu during an emergency summit to address BDS.

Protesters against the BDS movement during the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York. June 1, 2014. / Photo by AP – Courtesy Haaretz.com

 

How the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is changing organized American Jewish life.

Photo: Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields is an atrocious human rights violation.

Image: Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli Air Force pilot, now solidarity activist, speaks to seminarians in Oslo, Norway, September 23, 2014. (courtesy The Electronic Intifada)

 

After providing days of Holocaust coverage the BBC is slammed for inviting ‘anti-Israel MP’ George Galloway to a chat show

 by Stuart Littlewood

BBC TV are being bad-mouthed for inviting MP George Galloway onto the Question Time panel in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency next week.

Image above: Activists in London called for an arms embargo on Israel. (London Palestine Action)

 
 

Seize the moment! There was never a better moment for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement to mass-mobilise for a mega-campaign to not only impact more heavily on the lawless Israeli state.

The motion commits Unite to taking ‘bolder steps like those that were taken against the South African apartheid regime’ as part of the fight against ‘the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people

 
 

UK Methodists sidestepped a proposal to “strengthen the Church’s commitment to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a peaceful and effective method to persuade the State of Israel to end its military occupation of the Palestinian territories… by applying BDS to Israel in addition to the illegal settlements”. And they did so on a day when Israelis were ramping up their wildly disproportionate murder spree and collective punishment against Palestinians