17 years of BDS

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Today our movement celebrates 17 years.

 

On this anniversary of the 2005 call from the largest Palestinian coalition to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, we want to celebrate this growing anti-apartheid movement.  

Join us in celebrating the most significant moments in the growth of the anti-apartheid movement, its globalization, its impact, and indispensable role in bringing about an unprecedented narrative shift around Palestine and the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights.

Watch and share the video marking the 17 years of the BDS movement

Ben & Jerry's pulls out of Israel

 

Unilever sells off Ben & Jerry’s in Israel to avoid West Bank row

Move follows ice-cream brand’s decision to stop selling in Palestinian territories as it was ‘inconsistent’ with its values

The decision was one of the highest-profile rebukes by a well-known brand of Israel’s settlements. Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Sarah Butler

@whatbutlersaw

Wed 29 Jun 2022 13.04 EDT

Unilever has sold off its Ben & Jerry’s business in Israel in an attempt to extricate itself from a row over sales of the ice-cream in settlements in the West Bank.

Ben & Jerry’s independent board announced last summer that the brand would no longer sell its products in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying to do so was “inconsistent with our values”.

The decision was one of the highest-profile rebukes by a well-known brand of Israel’s settlements, which are regarded as illegal under international law.

Stop the tram line to Israel's illegal settlements

Saturday, 11 June is the annual shareholders' meeting of CAF, the Basque company that is building the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR). The JLR is a tram line that serves Israel's illegal settlements in and around Jerusalem and fosters Israel’s regime of apartheid and settler colonialism.

The JLR runs through occupied Jerusalem and contributes to Israel's systemic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Jerusalem, which is illegal under international law.

Email CAF's shareholders now and tell them to abandon the project to build Israel's colonial tramway

We need you to send an email to CAF shareholders urging them to end CAF’s complicity in Israel’s violent occupation of Jerusalem and Israel’s apartheid regime.

In solidarity, The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) DONATE

Stand with Alice Walker: Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism!​

As censorship is becoming the norm in the United States, Alice Walker, who is a friend of UNAC, a human rights fighter, antiwar activist, feminist and world-renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple has been invited and then disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival.  This was done because her consistent stand in support of Palestinian rights.  This they claim is anti-semitism.  A petition was created with 60 initial signers of authors and activists.  The festival organizers were told that if they do not reinstate her, we would initiate a public campaign and ask people to boycott the festival.  The festival organizers have not commented and have not reinstated Alice Walker.

Part of this public campaign is to get signatures on the petition.  You can read and sign the petition and see the 60 initial signers and the names of all others who are signing by clicking the link below.  Each signature will send an email to the organizers of the festival.

Please join this important effort by signing the statement.

GEICO supports Israeli apartheid

Just before Ramadan began, GEICO Insurance invited me to meet and talk with their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team. I was happy to discuss Arab-American heritage, especially during the holy month of Ramadan.

Then, yesterday, in the middle of my fast for Ramadan two things happened that shocked me — and broke my heart.

I got the news that GEICO — the world-famous insurance company worth tens of billions of dollars — had decided to abruptly cancel the event with me.

Then, GEICO publicly justified their decision by smearing my work advocating for marginalized communities as “hatred” across their social media accounts.

All during Ramadan.

Let GEICO know you demand they do the right thing and rescind their statement & apologize to their Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian employees and customers. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to push back against anti-Arab and Islamophobic hate.

On Twitter? Tweet at GEICO to let them know that we won’t back down from anti-Arab, anti-Muslim discrimination.

Linda Sarsour and the MPower Change team

Boycott Israeli Dates

Buy Palestinian dates this Ramadan!

If you’re looking for a place to buy alternative dates, AMP has partnered with Penny Appeal USA and Buycott Palestine, two companies that sell authentic Palestinian dates. Make your purchases now in time for Ramadan!

Penny Appeal USA Phone number: (202) 851-2112 Email: info@pennyappealusa.org

Buycott Palestine Phone number: (416) 897 1907 Email: buycottPalestine@gmail.com

If you have any questions about the products or shipping times, please feel free to contact the companies directly as we are not fulfilling orders on their behalf.

Let's Boycott Israeli Dates

Jessi Sander, a Jewish American school teacher, fired for a blog post supporting Palestinian rights

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUESTS: Jessi Sander, a Jewish American school teacher, and her lawyer Robert Herbst talk about why she was fired from her job by the Westchester Reform Temple for a recreational blog post criticizing the most recent attack on Gaza by the State of Israel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/nyregion/synagogues-israel-opinion.html

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