Dear friend,
We are excited to
announce the full launch of our new
bi-lingual BDSmovement.net website. We
launched a version of the site last year
and we’re delighted that the site is now
fully online in both Arabic and English.
Our new
What is BDS?
page explains our movement, its key
demands and central successes in a
simple and accessible way.
Our
Get Involved
section is a
hub for action, connecting supporters of
Palestinian rights to online campaigns,
local groups and ideas for actions they
can take in their own communities.
Under
Campaigns,
you can explore what activists and
unions are doing to support the struggle
for Palestinian rights. You can also
learn about important global campaigns
that are led by the BDS movement.
Can you help us build more effective campaigning
resources with a small donation to the
Palestinian BDS National Committee, the
Palestinian leadership of the BDS
movement?
Donate now
This launch of the new BDS movement
website in Arabic and English was one of
many achievements made possible by
generous donations from supporters like
you, firmly committed to the Palestinian
struggle for freedom, justice and
equality.
We have big plans to grow our movement
across the world, launch our website in
new languages, including Spanish, and
develop even more effective campaigns to
hold Israel accountable, along with
companies and institutions complicit in
its violations of Palestinian human
rights.
Can you help us make these plans a
reality by donating to the Palestinian
BDS National Committee (BNC)?
July 9, 2017 marks 12 years since the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
movement was born. It’s been 12 years
since an impressively large and diverse
coalition across Palestinian civil
society surmounted incredible odds to
unify around three basic Palestinian
rights and a nonviolent, inclusive,
anti-racist path of struggle to achieve
them. Despite the fragmentation,
military occupation, segregation and
dispossession, we came together to
assert our people’s right to freedom,
justice, equality and dignity.
The 2005 BDS Call embodies overwhelming
Palestinian support for demanding an end
to Israel’s military occupation and the
dismantling of its illegal wall, an end
to its institutionalized and legalized
system of racial discrimination which
meets the UN definition of apartheid,
and the right of refugees to return to
their homeland as stipulated in
international law.
Inspired by the South African
anti-apartheid movement and the American
Civil Rights Movement, entities
representing Palestinians everywhere
called on people of conscience worldwide
to adopt pressure tactics in support of
our struggle for rights. BDS calls for
boycott and divestment initiatives in
the academic, cultural, economic and
sports fields and for pressuring states
to implement meaningful sanctions
against Israel until it fully complies
with its obligations under international
law. >>>