1. The Academic Boycott Debate
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2006
   An excellent summary and commentary on a debate at Ryerson University about whether Israel should be subjected to an academic boycott because of its human rights violations.
   
2. An Action a Day
   Keeps Global Capitalism Away
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   
3. The Boycott
   Lafargue, Paul
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1901
   The boycott, which the bourgeoisie regards with sentimental tenderness when directed against the trade of its commercial rival, it considers as a crime when employed by the workers in defence of their livelihood. The mere blacklisting of a workshop by a trade union is an offence, in Europe as well as in America, punished by law and the infliction of civil damages, calculated to exhaust the treasury of the union and break down the power of resistance of the workers.
4. Boycott
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons.
5. Boycott America: Are You Ready to Take On a Lone-Gun Superpower?
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Hit the superpower with a boycott the whole world can see, and that American power can really feel.
6. Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
   Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The very survival of the rail project is now in question after the boycott movement’s successful lobbying. A Dutch bank, ASN, pulled its investments from Veolia in 2006, and the company lost a large contract in Sweden this year.
7. Boycott Israel
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
8. The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Boycott Factsheet.
9. Calling All Radicals 
   How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
10. Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
11. The Case for Academic Boycott
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Academic boycott targets Israel's intellectual leadership, the educated elite whose record consists largely of misinforming Israelis about their history, distorting their understanding of current conflicts, normalizing the racism of their society, and providing to the Israeli military and government the legal, technological, and political tools it needs to facilitate the continued theft of Palestinian land and the containment of its restive population.
12. Chávez, César
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
13. Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Believes that Israel is an apartheid state that resembles South African Apartheid and that justice will not be achieved without equal rights for everyone in the region, regardless of religion, ethnicity or nationality.
14. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
15. Companies that Profit from the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Makes the case for action against companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, and identifies who those companies are.
    
16. Delano grape strike
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A strike, boycott, and secondary boycott led by the United Farm Workers (UFW) against growers of table grapes in California.
17. Did Leviev's Empire Succumb to Boycott?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The brave people who took to the streets to demand boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and Israeli companies have received a clear message that their efforts are not in vain. Private companies that seek to make easy profits in Palestine while ignoring the injustices and illegality of Israel's crimes there, will have to think twice about their investments. They may be required to pay a price in actual money for the moral deficit in their accounts.
18. Don't buy these grapes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
19. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
20. GE boycott
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    
21. General Electric boycott
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
22. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
23. Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
24. Israel boycott may be the way to peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
25. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
26. Israel will withdraw only under pressure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
27. J.P. Stevens - Boycott Kit
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    
28. Jewish Peace Activists Defend German Critic of Israel Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    More than 370 Jewish peace activists from around the world signed a statement defending German politician Hermann Dierkes against charges of anti-Semitism.
29. The Last Refuge
    Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
30. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Robinson recounts the origins and sustaining force of the famous boycott led by Montgomery's African American women.
31. Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.
32. The Nestle Boycott
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
    
33. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    
34. Our Way to Fight
    Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
35. Palestinian Economic Boycott Hits Israeli Settlers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli settlers are beginning to feel the bite of an economic boycott campaign launched by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against goods produced in the illegal Israeli settlements dotting the occupied West Bank.
36. Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
    All About Unions in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
37. The Politics of Nonviolent Action
    Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence.
38. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
39. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
40. Sanctioning Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A useful guide to the background of apartheid and understanding current developments, particularly the success of the mass democratic movement in weakening racist policy.
41. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It’s Time
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
42. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Book
    
43. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
44. Spain Excludes Settlement University from Academic Competition
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The "University Center of Ariel in Samaria" (AUCS) has been excluded from a prestigious university competition about sustainable architecture in Spain. With this move, Spain joins the growing number of European governments taking effective, even though preliminary, steps to uphold international law by boycotting or divesting from institutions and corporations involved in or profiting from Israel's illegal Wall and colonial settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.
45. Statement of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain Regarding Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    To increase the pressure for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories, and the removal of the separation wall and the illegal settlements, we will support a boycott (where trade union members should not put their own jobs at risk by refusing to deal with such products) of those goods and agricultural products that originate in illegal settlements -through developing an effective, targeted consumer-led boycott campaign working closely with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign -and campaign for disinvestment by companies associated with the occupation.
46. Stop Entertaining Apartheid Coalition (SEAC)
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1986
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
47. Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
48. Time for a New Divestment Campaign
    From South Africa to Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years – as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
49. To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
50. Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.
51. A turning point for the US solidarity movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
52. Veolia tries to bail out of one apartheid project, two to go!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In 2005, just after the publication of the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid, Palestinians began calling for an international boycott campaign against Veolia, a company involved in the Citypass Consortium, a scheme to build a tramline on occupied territory in the West Bank. Veolia is a huge multinational, that arguably has the biggest financial commitment of any international company to Israel's colonisation of the West Bank.
53. We must speak out 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
54. Who Profits?
    Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
    Resource Type: Database
    Published: 2010
    In exposing companies and corporations involved in the occupation, we hope to promote a change in public opinion and corporate policies, leading to an end to the occupation.
55. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
56. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
    
57. With A Little Help From Outside
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
58. Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
    An Answer to Uri Avnery
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.

Experts on Boycotts in the Sources Directory

1. DPA Industries Inc.
2. Independent Jewish Voices