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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.
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#BDS's Saleh Hijazi slams
@Keir_Starmer
& the Labour leadership for attempts to censor the term “apartheid” in relation to Israel. Hijazi describes
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's stance as shameful complicity with Israeli apartheid & reminiscent of Thatcher’s support for South African apartheid
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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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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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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 bit.ly/2DqnJ4o
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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
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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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Apartheid states aren’t democracies.
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Following years of #BDS campaigns
@benandjerrys
has announced it will end sales of its ice cream in Israel's illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land. We warmly welcome their decision but call on Ben & Jerry's to end all operations in apartheid Israel. #BDSsuccess
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Thank you @LanaDelRey for your principled decision to withdraw from Israel’s Meteor Festival. You heeded the call by countless fans & groups who care deeply about justice, including
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@jvplive
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Thank you to everyone who is boycotting consumer goods from Israeli and international companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights. By focusing on a small number of companies we can maximize our impact. Find out what to boycott here: bit.ly/3nfsjdX
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1/3 Long lists calling for boycotts of hundreds of products have recently circulated on social media. BDS focuses on a small number of companies and products in order to maximize our impact. Please visit bit.ly/3nfsjdX & check local BDS/Palestinian solidarity groups.
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The Belgian city of Liège has voted to end all ties with Israel citing its regime of “apartheid, colonization and military occupation” against Palestinians. Liège now joins Oslo and Barcelona municipalities in ending complicity in Israel’s grave human rights violations.
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🚨 Victory! 🚨 A landmark motion has just been passed at Labour Party Conference 2021. #Lab21 declares Israel an apartheid state & calls for sanctions against it until it ends its apartheid & occupation & respects the right of Palestinian refugees “to return to their homes.”
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Great News! UK Labour Party has voted to freeze arms sales to Israel, rekindling hope that Israel’s South Africa moment is getting closer. Palestinians had urged Labour to end UK complicity in Israel's crimes against Palestinians, most critically by adopting a military embargo
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Palestinians welcome news that Gilberto Gil, a legendary Brazilian musician & cultural hero, has cancelled his July 4 concert in Israel. His cancellation follows Israel’s slaughter of over 100 civilians in Gaza in the past few weeks bit.ly/2ICMCNg
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BREAKING NEWS: European Court of Human Rights rules against French government & for the right of citizens to call for a boycott of Israeli goods on the basis of Israel's apartheid regime. This victory has major implications all across Europe! #BDSIsrael
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BIG NEWS: South Africa unanimously voted to “immediately and unconditionally” downgrade diplomatic ties w/ Israel because of it's violations of Palestinian human rights. An important concrete sanction & gesture of solidarity w/ the Palestinian people bit.ly/2Bv4mea
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Barcelona’s Mayor announced the suspension of institutional relations with apartheid Israel, including the city's twinning agreement with Tel Aviv, “until the Israeli authorities put an end to the system of violations of Palestinian human rights.” #BarcelonaSaysNoToApartheid
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Outraged at apartheid Israel’s crimes against Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and Gaza? Here are 5 actions you can take to mobilize and channel your anger to dismantle apartheid and all forms of racism and oppression. bit.ly/3uQcDBb
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The BDS movement for Palestinian rights conveys its deepest condolences to South Africans, to Palestinians, and to all humans for the departure of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a true prophet of justice and peace.
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Prominent artists including Viggo Mortensen, James Schamus, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Danny Glover & Laurie Anderson support the right to boycott Israel until it stops violating Palestinian rights. They slam efforts to silence BDS supporters as "repressive" bit.ly/2u40utY
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We are extremely concerned about EU complicity in apartheid Israel's war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza & beyond. We strongly condemn the EU’s supply of weapons to Israel & Israel's indiscriminate bombing. EU is complicit in the murder of 198 Palestinians inc 58 children.
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EU in Israel 🇪🇺🇮🇱
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The EU is extremely concerned at continued escalation of violence in/around Gaza & calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities The 🇪🇺 strongly condemns indiscriminate firing of rockets into 🇮🇱 by Hamas & militant groups in Gaza directly harming civilians Full statement @UN👇 twitter.com/EUatUN/status/…
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Palestinians salute the proposed bill by
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@UN
database of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land from Ireland's Strategic Investment Fund. loom.ly/yBEMy1U
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🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 You can't say you stand for the rights of Palestinians while continuing to profit from their oppression and misery We must show we stand FOR peace and the upholding of international law and for an END to a wicked apartheid regime #Nakba #FreePalestine @maryloumcdonald
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50+ prominent figures, including Hollywood stars & 5 Nobel laureates, support Barcelona mayor's decision to suspend institutional ties with apartheid Israel, including a twinning agreement with Tel Aviv, in support of Palestinian rights. #BarcelonaSaysNoToApartheid
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Today, we commemorate 35 years since the beginning of the 1st Intifada, when Palestinians rose up in unity against Israel's brutal regime of apartheid, settler-colonialism and occupation.
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The 5-year-old Palestinian girl murdered by apartheid Israel's bombing of Gaza had a name: Alaa Qaddoum. Those responsible for the crime have a name, too. We demand the ICC investigate Israeli apartheid. 10 Palestinians were murdered, 55 injured by Israeli bombs. #GazaUnderAttack
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In solidarity with Palestinians, 250 Jewish Google employees are calling on the company to "terminate any business contracts which support “Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights" including contracts with the Israeli army. #GazaUnderAttack #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Jewish Google employees to Google CEO: terminate any business contracts which support “Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights, such as the Israeli Defense Forces.” theverge.com/2021/5/18/2244
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Watching apartheid Israel’s bloody crushing of popular Palestinian protests in Sheikh Jarrah calls us to action. We have proven before our collective power in the form of #BDS. Here are four actions you can take to fight Israeli impunity and #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Thank you to everyone who is boycotting consumer goods from Israeli & international companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights. By focusing on a small number of companies we can maximize our impact. Find out what to boycott here: bit.ly/3nfsjdX
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Thank you to everyone who is boycotting consumer goods from Israeli & international companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights. By focusing on a small number of companies we can maximize our impact. Find out what to boycott here: bit.ly/3nfsjdX
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India’s policies in Kashmir resemble Israel’s settler colonialism in the West Bank. On top of buying 50% of Israel’s arms exports, India borrows methods of repression from Israel. Indian author Arundhati Roy says that globally "all the necks and all the knees are connected."
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BDS turns 16 tomorrow! Over the last 16 years, we have grown into an unstoppable global movement fighting for freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians everywhere. As we approach our 16th anniversary we will be taking a look back at some movement highlights over the years.
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Big thanks to everyone who urged @LanaDelRey to respect the Palestinian picket line & withdraw from Israel’s Meteor Festival. She did the right thing. She listened to fans who insist that artists should never let their music be used to cover up gross violations of human rights
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Letter from April: “We, Latin American, African & Asian organizations raise our voices once again in the face of the repeated aggressions committed against Palestinian people of Gaza... we reiterate our demand for a complete military embargo on Israel.”
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We usually receive notice of frivolous complaints from Germany about our tweets, which Twitter dismisses. Today, the dismissed complaint was not about a particular tweet, but about our whole presence on the platform. We will not be silenced. Our response: #BDS for Justice!
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A HISTORIC FIRST! Newly-elected Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's campaign says this Democrat from Minnesota "believes in and supports the BDS movement [for Palestinian rights], and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized" bit.ly/2Tgq0b4
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Two apartheid regimes were established in 1948, South Africa and Israel. While one was defeated by people's resistance, the other persists due to international complicity. Read this explainer on Israel’s apartheid and join us in dismantling it! bit.ly/3pkJfRq
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Apartheid Israel's occupation war planes bombed Gaza in the early hours of this morning, damaging residential buildings, agricultural lands and terrifying the besieged population of over 2 million Palestinians. #GazaUnderAttack
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We are deeply inspired by the overwhelming show of solidarity in cities across the world. It gives us hope that the tide is turning in favour of justice. Let’s follow the amazing mobilizations with concrete action in the form of BDS campaigns. #InOurHands Thread ⬇️
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On Land Day, we commemorate the Palestinians murdered by Israeli police protesting the ongoing theft of their lands in 1976. Palestinian popular resistance to Israel’s colonization & apartheid will continue, with global solidarity, until freedom, justice & equality are achieved.
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A WIN: Barcelona City Council has rejected a motion that aimed to smear the anti-racist BDS movement for freedom, justice and equality. Here is Jaume Asens, Barcelona's vice-mayor, addressing and rejecting the right-wing groups that promoted the motion.
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Trump’s “Vision for Peace” would permanently trap Palestinians in bantustans, cementing Israeli apartheid. But we will never surrender our rights and our land. Inspired by the movement that helped end apartheid in South Africa, we call for international pressure through #BDS.
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As apartheid Israel’s bloody assault on the occupied Palestinian city of Jenin continues, Israeli forces have attacked journalists and deliberately cut off electricity and telecommunications to prevent their war crimes being documented and exposed worldwide. #JeninUnderAttack
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We welcome the
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's decision affirming jurisdiction over the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel’s apartheid regime has killed over 3,600 Palestinians since the ICC started its preliminary examination of the situation in Palestine. Enough delay! #ICC4Israel
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Israel's war crimes in Gaza are no accident. They are 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻. Lebanon 2006: Israel implemented a policy of extreme violence committing mass murder and destruction of civilian infrastructure in a Beirut suburb, after failing to crush the resistance. Thread⬇️1/5
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Israel murders Palestinians with impunity because the UN and world governments fail to hold it accountable. Ahmed, Eyad and all slain Palestinians deserve justice. Stop military aid to and trade with Israel now!
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Ahmed Erekat, 27, beautiful young man. A son. A brother. Fiancée. My baby cousin. Israeli cowards shot him multiple times, left him to bleed for 1.5 hours and blamed him for his death. Tonight was his sister’s wedding, his was next month. We failed to protect him. I am so sorry.
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Another win: UK university ends sales of Sabra hummus after BDS campaign. Sabra is jointly owned by Strauss Group, an investor in the Golani Brigade of the Israeli military which is responsible for egregious violations of Palestinian human rights bit.ly/2FQztjr
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We condemn this blatant attempt by
@Twitter
to censor & silence international solidarity w/ Palestinians. We will fight this suspension. Let's make Israeli Apartheid Week 2021 the biggest ever! From March 15-21, mobilise to build the global resistance to Israeli apartheid #BDS
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The world’s largest private security company just divested from Israeli apartheid. The G4S victory came after 13 years of campaigning, reminding us that public pressure works.
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“Today, more than ever, Palestinians are telling the world that true solidarity with our struggle for freedom, justice & equality spells #BDS....We need the world to respond with corresponding acts of courage & support." - Omar Barghouti, BDS co-founder. bit.ly/3fj47nF
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In a new poll, Israel's favourability drops sharply among European publics, including in Germany and France. In the UK, Israel was the "least favourable" of all the countries surveyed. Ending apartheid is #InOurHands.
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Mainstream media is increasingly realising that apartheid Israel needs “a real slap in the face”, not empty rhetorical condemnation, to stop its escalating violent oppression of Palestinians.
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Norway’s largest pension fund KLP announces it has divested $3.81m from 16 companies due to their complicity in Israel's illegal settlement enterprise on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank citing "human rights abuses in situations of war." reut.rs/3ynfS4b
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With the mainstream media uncritically echoing Israeli propaganda - equating oppressor with oppressed - here are 3 key points to remember when reporting or when refuting this myth.
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Israel “is fast losing the liberal mainstream worldwide, including Jewish millennials, as its apartheid regime and alliances with white supremacist and patently anti-Semitic forces in the US and Europe are being exposed,” says BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti
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Good News: Galway City Council just became the 4th Irish local authority to fully support the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions ( #BDS ) movement for Palestinian rights. Our movement for #FreedomJusticeEquality continues to grow w/the support of principled people around the world.
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Instead of sending a royal family member to Israel, the UK government should end arms trade with Israel, ban all trade with Israel’s illegal settlements and make amends for decades of official British complicity in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. bit.ly/2qJeozZ
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Musicians Peter Gabriel, Tom Morello, Roger Waters, Kathleen Hanna & Talib Kweli, actors John Cusack & Mark Ruffalo & scholar Angela Davis are among 100+ figures to sign a letter supporting Lorde's right to follow her conscience & cancel her Israel concert
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We congratulate Prof. Smith, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry & supporter of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. His principled commitments are evident in his scientific work to protect life & his call for an end to military aid to Israel bit.ly/2PbRRXH
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Thank you to everyone who is boycotting consumer goods from Israeli & international companies complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights. By focusing on a small number of companies we can maximize our impact. Find out what to boycott here: bit.ly/3nfsjdX
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