BDS Movement

Holiday Shoppers Are Flexing Political Power Through Boycotts

December 19, 2025 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. Educate! BDS Movement, Boycotts, DEI, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

For 38 weeks straight, racial justice protesters have been gathering outside a Target in Washington, D.C. to call out the company for suspending its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts, aligning itself with the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI. To put additional pressure on the company, those advocates have been calling for “Target fasts,” in which people completely abstain from purchasing anything from Target. The boycott began in February, following Target’s suspension of DEI efforts, and was initiated by Until Freedom, a nonprofit organization dedicated to community activism and rapid response.

Why Have Israel Bonds Become A Target For The BDS Movement?

December 16, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Strategize! BDS Movement, Divestment, Genocide, Israel Bonds

Last month, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) announced that it will invest an additional $5 million in Israel Bonds, making the school the largest Israeli bondholder among universities worldwide. “This is a sound financial decision — but equally important, it is a statement of solidarity that reflects our vision for the future,” declared FAU president Adam Hasner in a press release. “As a leading university and a member of the South Florida community, we cannot ignore what is happening to Jewish students across the country, and we are proud of the steps we are taking to become the safest and most welcoming university for Jewish life in America.”

Public Broadcasters Quit Eurovision 2026 Over Participation Of Israel

December 5, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! BDS Movement, boycott, Eurovision, Israel, Journalists

At least four countries will withdraw from next year’s Eurovision Song Contest following a decision to allow Israel to compete. After a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) discussion in Switzerland this week, public broadcasters from Slovenia, Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands issued statements denouncing the failure to address concerns over Israel’s participation in the contest, while Palestine solidarity movements elsewhere in Europe are demanding from more broadcasters to follow suit. “For more than a year, we have been warning that we cannot stand on the same stage with a representative of a country that has committed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza,” said Ksenija Horvat

International Workers Build ‘People’s Embargo’ Against Israeli Genocide

December 4, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein, Struggle - La Lucha. Organize! BDS Movement, Embargo, Genocide, Israel, Mask Off Maersk, Palestine

From the docks of Oakland to the ports of Morocco, from Italian logistics hubs to South African coal mines, an international movement is taking shape to do what governments have refused: Cut off the flow of weapons and fuel sustaining Israel’s assault on Gaza. On Nov. 22, labor organizers, Palestinian activists, and anti-war campaigners from six countries gathered online to launch the People’s Embargo for Palestine — a coordinated effort to leverage workers’ power at critical chokepoints in the global military supply chain. The webinar brought together a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle with a new generation of organizers who have notched concrete victories over the past year.

How Somerville Organized To Win Ballot Question To Divest From Israel

December 2, 2025 Tamar Sarai, Next City. Strategize! BDS Movement, Direct Democracy, Divestment, Massachusetts, Palestine

Organizers with Somerville for Palestine hosted a rally outside of City Hall on Nov. 13, demanding that city councilmembers follow the will of voters and pass a resolution to implement a strategy to boycott and divest from Israel within the next calendar year. The rally came after voters in the Massachusetts city’s Nov. 4 election overwhelmingly supported nonbinding Ballot Question 3, also referred to as the “Palestine Solidarity Question,” which asked whether Somerville should divest from companies that “engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine.”

Netherlands Advances Plan To Ban Imports From Israeli Settlements

November 11, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! BDS Movement, Illegal Settlements, Israel, The Netherlands

The Netherlands is moving ahead with a partial trade ban targeting imports from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel said on 10 November during a visit to the region. Van Weel confirmed that while a wider package of sanctions on Israel has been paused following last month’s ceasefire in Gaza, work continues on legislation specifically addressing settlement products. “The Netherlands is still working on legislation to bar imports from illegal settlements in occupied Palestine,” he said, adding that the measure responds to expanding settlements and what he called “spiralling Israeli violence” that threatens the viability of a two-state solution.

EU Movement Strengthens Call To Boycott Israeli Pharmaceutical Company

November 8, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Strategize! BDS Movement, European Union (EU), Israel, Pharmaceuticals

Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva is facing mounting pressure from Palestine solidarity groups across Europe. One of Israel’s largest drugs manufacturers and a major global producer of generic medicines, Teva has actively supported the genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 and contributed to the erosion of Palestinian healthcare long before that, Giorgia Gusciglio, Europe Coordinator for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Campaigns at the Palestinian BDS National Committee, told People’s Health Dispatch.

11 Arrested Protesting Minnesota Investment Board’s Israel Ties

October 24, 2025 Wyatt Miller, Fight Back! News. Resist! BDS Movement, Israel, Minnesota, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Saint Paul

Saint Paul, MN – On Tuesday, October 21, the typically quiet Retirement Systems Building was filled with chants of “Free Palestine” as advocates of divestment from Israel staged an all-day sit-in. The building houses the staff offices of the State Board of Investment (SBI), whose long-delayed quarterly meeting was held that morning in an online-only format in the board’s latest effort to avoid Palestine protesters. The SBI is chaired by Governor Tim Walz, joined by Attorney General Keith Ellison, State Auditor Julie Blaha and Secretary of State Steve Simon. Growing numbers of public employees, pension holders and other community members have spoken at quarterly SBI meetings, calling on it to divest state-managed funds from the state of Israel and companies complicit in Israel’s apartheid system and genocide in Gaza.

McGill University Professors And Librarians Endorse Boycott Of Israel

October 23, 2025 Malek Abisaab, Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Michelle Hartman, Mondoweiss. Resist! BDS Movement, Canada, Higher Education, Palestine Solidarity

On October 10, 2025, the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT) succeeded in passing a resolution at a special general meeting endorsing the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The resolution calls for the association to “take all necessary steps to implement the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, while ensuring that the boycott applies to institutional partnerships and agreements, not individual Israeli academics.” This principled stance taken by full-time professors and librarians is a major victory at a university where such an action was thought to be impossible until recently.

Starbucks To Shut Down Hundreds Of Stores Amid Global Boycott

September 27, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! BDS Movement, boycott, Palestine, Starbucks

Starbucks announced on 25 September that it will permanently close 900 stores across the US and Canada, saying the decision was linked to “underperforming” outlets and a $1-billion restructuring plan, while dismissing any connection to the global boycotts that have heavily targeted the brand during Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The company framed the move as an attempt to revive business after six straight quarters of falling US sales. Chief Executive Brian Niccol said certain cafes could not deliver the “physical environment our customers and partners expect,” adding that the closures are part of a $1-billion restructuring drive to cut underperforming outlets, reduce management layers, and speed up service. He described the plan as an effort to restore the chain’s “coffeehouse” feel and move away from the sterile, corporate setting that had replaced it over time.

As Israel Faces Increasing Isolation, BDS Becomes More Crucial

September 22, 2025 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Strategize! BDS Movement, Foreign Relations, Genocide, Israel

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent the Israeli stock market into a fall by doing what he so often does: saying the quiet part out loud. The market rebounded, as it always does from these sorts of brief panics. But Netanyahu and Israel in general are finally being forced to grapple with some of the real, long-term consequences of their actions. Netanyahu told a group of American and Israeli business people at the “Fifty States, One Israel” conference (a name that, itself, inspires many associations of Israel being the fifty-first U.S. state, but also shows Israel’s permanent inability to truly stand alone): “…I am a devotee of the free market, but we’ll have to have some signs of an autarky…We’ll need to develop weapons industries here. We’re going to be Athens and super Sparta. Over the next few years, we’ll have no other choice. We’ll have to defend ourselves and know how to attack our enemies…We need to cut back the bureaucracy in a draconian fashion.

Why The SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS

September 9, 2025 Jill Clark-Gollub, Popular Resistance. Educate! BDS Movement, Genocide, International Law, Israel, US Sanctions

The SanctionsKill campaign was formed in 2019 to raise awareness of the human cost of the “sanctions”—actually economic coercive measures—imposed by the United States and its allies on over 40 countries, in which one-third of humanity lives. Our coalition of grassroots activists has exposed the suffering and death caused to populations targeted with these measures, particularly among children, the elderly, and people with health conditions. We also strongly support the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement advanced by Palestinian civil society as a legitimate way for grassroots activists around the world to pressure the settler-colonial state of Israel to comply with international law and recognize the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination.

Over 1,800 Prominent Film Figures Launch Boycott Of Israeli Films

September 9, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! BDS Movement, Film Industry, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

Over 1,800 internationally known actors, directors, and film professionals pledged on 8 September to boycott Israeli film institutions that are “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.” The pledge, released by Film Workers for Palestine, states, “As filmmakers, actors, industry workers, and institutions, we recognize cinema’s power to shape perceptions. In this urgent crisis, where many governments enable the carnage in Gaza, we must address complicity in this unrelenting horror.” It highlights that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has determined a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza and describes Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies as unlawful.

Brooklyn Activists And Residents Are Banding Together Against Genocide

September 6, 2025 Joseph Mogul, Mondoweiss. Resist! BDS Movement, Genocide, Israel, New York City (NYC), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, weapons

Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel’s genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago—in which case, they are absolutely aware. The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies from the city-owned industrial park on the East River, where 550 businesses are located. Protestors bang drums, blare airhorns, picket, chalk sidewalks, fold zines, and hand out flyers reading: “MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, EASY AERIAL & CRYE PRECISION, LOCAL WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS IN OUR BACKYARDS.”

Why Arab Campaigns To Boycott Israel Aren’t Working

September 1, 2025 Amena Al-Ashkar, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Arab Countries, BDS Movement, Colonialism, Gaza, Israel, Palestine

Under the urgency of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, many of the public tactics adopted by grassroots Arab movements to pressure their governments to boycott Israel and reflect the will of their people simply aren’t working. After nearly two years of genocide, the conventional tools of the Arab boycott campaign are hitting a wall. This failure is not only about tactics — it is also about a deeper misreading of where the centers of power lie in Arab countries. This has led to the inability to pressure governments into taking action. Power is no longer centralized in a colonial regime that directly governs us, but is rather scattered and diffused everywhere. But if we understand hegemonic power in this way, then how can we channel our energies strategically into where the boycott movement can have a larger impact?

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